In the Population Finder programs analysis, are there any regions or populations that are particularly difficult to distinguish?
How difficult it is to distinguish between two populations depends on whether or not the populations in question share recent histories (one hundred to two thousand years). When they do, it is much harder to distinguish between them. One such situation exists between people from Southern Europe (Italy, Greece, etc.) and the Middle East (Jewish populations, Palestinians, etc.). Historically there have been population movements between Southern Europe and the Middle East in the form of trade, enslavements, and forced religious conversions. As a result, people with known genealogical ancestry from one group may show genetic ancestry from the other. In these cases, the Population Finder program will show results that reflect the genetic ancestry. For example, someone who is one half Southern Italian might have these results.
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- In the Population Finder programs analysis, are there any regions or populations that are particularly hard to tell apart?
- Does the Population Finder program use DNA segments the way Family Finder does? Does it use individual SNPs?
- Does the new microarray chip include more populations in the Population Finder?
