(spitting)
- Are you using audio?
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- Today we are taking a 23andME ancestry test.
- 23andME breaks down your background and what percentage
of you are from what regions of the world.
- Is this gonna be a geography test?
But kind of a test.
- I have heard of 23andME because different people
in past Buzzfeed videos have done it,
including our Jen Ruggirello.
- Well I've already seen my results but my friends
at Ladylike do not know theirs and we recently
got a bunch of 23andME test kits and I wanna make
everybody spit in a cup so we can learn where we're from
and potentially do something with that information.
- So on my dad's side, I know I'm Irish and Italian.
My grandfather came from Italy.
My mom was actually adopted when she was a little girl
so while we have some ideas about what our ancestry might be
on that side, we don't really know
and there's not really a way to find out, until now.
- I don't know a ton about my family background,
I do know that my great-great-great-grandmother was a slave
so she was first-generation in America
and I do know that on my dad's side, there's some Native
American, but I'm not sure who or how much.
In general, I can just take a stab in the dark
and say Africa, Caribbean could be an option,
I just like literally have no idea.
I'm in for a lot of surprises, I know I will be.
- I'm 50% Irish and 50% Polish.
My grandparents are first-generation Americans
so I'm pretty sure we're Polish.
I eat gwumpkie a lot, love me some pierogies,
and then when it comes to my Irish side,
I think we're from County Cork area.
- Mexico is right here and that's where my mom's side
of the family is from.
Both of her parents were born and raised in Mexico
and then my mom was born and raised here
and now I am born and raised here.
I am curious to see if there's any Native American
or Mayan or Aztec involved in our Mexican heritage
or how much of it is Spanish or whatnot,
'cause I really have no idea, and then my dad
says that his family is primarily from Scotland.
- So I know I'm supposed to spit in a little thing,
you give someone your spit and instead of them slapping you
in the face, they give you a wealth of information
about your life.
I am super curious 'cause I don't really know much
about my mom's ancestry and I've never really been able
to definitively find out.
My mom's side is kind of a mystery.
- Growing up, I didn't really have too much of a curiosity
about my deep family roots in terms of background
and ethnicity, something did strike a chord in me
a few years ago when I was with a friend of mine
and she had some friends visited her from the UK,
they were black and they met me and we were talking
and chatting and they asked me where I was from
and I said, oh, Virginia, and like they kind of laughed
at me and they were like, no, where are you really from?
And I literally just had to say, I don't know.
- I think it's really cool to know where exactly
you came from, I do have a strong identity in my family
and the culture that I was brought up with
so I know the nurture part of it
but I don't know the nature part of it.
- I'm actually a little nervous because what if
what I thought about my family, about being 50% Polish
and 50% Irish, even though it's not that important,
the classification, but like what if everything
I thought was true isn't true.
- Today is finally the day we're getting
our 23andME results.
- I can't wait to make all this fan fiction
about our family histories.
- Everyone else has a general idea of certain regions
that they are probably from but I think there will be
a lot of surprises and I can't wait to see everyone's faces.
- Let's do it now, go.
- Hi. - Hi guys.
- My name's Jhulianna, I am a product specialist
on the customer care team at 23andME and today,
we're gonna go over your ancestry composition results.
Are you guys excited? - Yes.
- Alright, Devin, let's start with you.
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- I think I'm from the British Isles
and then Eastern Europe.
- So you're right, you are 99.8% European.
(laughs)
- What is the .2 that is not?
- You're 34% British and Irish, 9.8% French and German,
2.4% Scandinavian. - What?
- Yeah. - Scandinavian?
- Yeah, I'm not lying.
(laughs)
- Be funny if you were though.
- I think you said you were Polish.
Okay, so there's evidence of that,
you are 21.1% Eastern European,
so that's where your Polish ancestry would be.
You're a little bit Southern European
and then you're .2% is East Asian.
- Oh. - .2
- So we're looking at your recent ancestry here
so the past five to 10 generations
and we can actually take a look in your ancestry timeline
where that came about, starting with your mother
and going back to her mother and her mother and her mother.
- It's the women. - The women.
- The mothers.
- So your maternal haplogroup is T1A.
- That's good, that must be the best, it's T1A.
- All of the members of T1A can trace their maternal lines
back to a woman who lived in the Middle East
about 14,000 years ago.
- I got a little emotional when you said we could
track our history back to one woman,
it's like one great-great-great-great-great-great
times infinity grandma.
This is really really cool and I wish I could shout out
to my old grandma, T1A.
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- Alright I'm up, I am so excited, oh my god,
I didn't know that there was so much information given.
- For people that are Mexican or Hispanic-Latino descent,
it's usually a mix of European, Native American,
and sometimes a little bit of African ancestry.
- Mmm. - Let's find out.
- Okay, let's do it, yes.
- Okay so you are 70.8% European.
- Okay. - Which is broken down
further into 33.2% British and Irish,
and that's where the evidence of Scottish ancestry would be.
- Wow, dad, he knew, I should have given him more credit.
- So you are 20.6% Southern European,
broken down further into 10.4% Iberian,
so again, Spain and Portugal.
- Okay, that makes sense. - .1% Balkan and then 10%
broadly Southern European.
You do have some evidence of that Native American DNA.
About 19.7%. - Whoa.
- Which is pretty high, yeah.
- That's a lot, I wasn't expecting that at all.
- So let's take a look at your ancestry timeline.
- Oh yes! - So your maternal haplogroup
is B2 so the common ancestor of haplogroup B2
was likely born in the northeastern reaches of Siberia
nearly 17,000 years ago.
- Whoa. - Siberia?
- Siberia, cold.
- I was gonna say, you're a little polar bear
but I don't know what animals are from Siberia.
(laughs)
- This is really really interesting.
Finding out the 19% Native American was really surprising
to me, I was not expecting that at all.
Great, thank you. - You're welcome.
- You up, Fred? - I'm up.
- It's my turn. - It's your turn.
- I really have no idea what to expect.
Also in terms of how much information
you all can provide me.
- For our sub-Saharan African reference population,
it's a little bit more broad than you might expect.
We do have an African genetics project that's going on
right now to gather more data from individuals
that have known ancestry from Africa to be able to
update our reference populations to hopefully offer
a little bit more granularity when it comes to your results.
- And it's not just 23andME that doesn't have the data,
it's across the board. - Correct, yes.
- Just science in general.
Alright. - But are you ready?
- I'm ready, let's do it.
- You are 74.5% Sub-Saharan African.
- Okay. - Which is broken down
a little bit further into 67.5% West African.
- Interesting. - Yeah, so that would be
countries like Ghana, Nigeria, did you know about that?
- No, no, I didn't know any of that, I actually have,
have had family members, well not family members,
but my uncle's old girlfriend, I'll just say that.
(laughs)
She was like Ghanaian and also my old roommate
is Ghanaian so those regions do register something for me,
I have feelings about them, good feelings,
I have relationships to people who are from those regions
so that's pretty cool. - and then 3.1%
Central and South African.
- Interesting. - Yeah.
You are 24.2% European. - That is a lot!
- Whoa!
- I'm startled.
- Should I get you some mayonnaise?
(laughs)
- Further broken down into 6.8 British and Irish.
- Okay. - 0.4% Scandinavian,
and then 10.1% broadly.
We can take a look at your ancestry timeline
to see when those populations came to be.
- Yes. - Between 1840 and 1900
is where we see evidence of one ancestor
being 100% West African, and then the other reference
populations are from 1780 to 1870, British and Irish.
- It makes me a little sad.
I mean, 24 as a whole is just a lot, it's a lot to digest.
But I'm surprised, so I don't have any Asian in me.
- You have a little, .9% East Asian and Native American.
- Wow.
- I know you thought that someone in your family
had a little bit of Native American in them.
- Yeah, so it's there, not much.
- Small percentage, but it was passed down.
Your maternal haplogroup is L1B1A, members of L1 migrated
into Western Africa and so today, that haplogroup,
L1B1A is found exclusively in Ethiopia and Sudan.
- Wow!
- I think that's the most surprising thing.
Not all the info made me feel excited
but it's just nice to know and have that knowledge
and also seeing those dates in those time periods,
I think a lot of that is very telling
and I think you can kinda fill in the blanks
based on history and what you know about your family
but just seeing it all on paper and written down
with all the data, that is me,
that is me on this computer screen.
- It's all in your DNA. - it's all in my DNA.
- Yay.
Okay are we gonna shimmy, are we shimmying?
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- It's Kristin time. - It's Kristin time.
- Alright Kristin, tell me what you think.
- My mom is adopted, she was adopted as a child,
I know what might be there but I am curious to see
if it will be confirmed.
- Okay, so you're a little bit of everything.
- Ooh. - What does that mean?
- Like a bagel.
- You're 79.5% European. - That's it?
- Yeah, were you expecting more?
- Yes.
- Out of the 79.5%, you are 44.2% Northwestern Europe,
14.1% British and Irish, 3.5% French and German,
.3% Scandinavian, 26.3% is broadly,
can't pinpoint it specifically to one of those
more specific regions. - Generally people who like
meat pies in some way, shape, or form.
(laughs)
- So then you have 28.9% Southern European,
7.5% Iberian, so again Spain and Portugal.
- Oh, what? - Seven!
- 7.5% Italian. - Wait, what,
I'm only 7.5% Italian?
We've based videos on the fact that I'm Italian.
(laughs)
Okay, well I know nothing, is what I learned,
I don't know shit for dicks.
- Are you ready for the other 20%?
- Yeah, I am.
- You have 17.3% East Asian and Native American.
- That's so high.
- 13.9 of that is Native American.
- That is so high.
Full disclosure, I did think there would be some
Native American but I think it's really,
you hear lots of white people like to be like,
I have some Native American and I don't feel like it's right
to claim a heritage that isn't necessarily mine
and that's crazy, anyway, continue.
- So your ancestry timeline, your maternal haplogroup
is J1C3. - Ooh.
- Ooh.
- So this is a relatively young branch of J
that traces back to a woman who lived approximately
9000 years ago.
Her ancestors migrated into Europe from the Middle East
as the Ice Age receded between 14,000 and 11,000 years ago.
- There's a lot to unpack here.
I'm just as Iberian as I am Italian.
- That's so funny. - First the fuck of all.
Second of all, I thought there would be some Native American
but I didn't think there would be this much,
that's a significant percentage.
This is wild. - I feel like I need to
not work anymore, I feel like I need to go home and just
process all of this information, you know what I mean?
- I need to call my mom and be like,
'cause she's actually been bothering me all day,
she's just like, have you done the thing yet?
No, you are two hours ahead of me.
- There were a lot of surprises today,
I think that one of them was just learning
that a haplogroup was a thing.
- Yes! - That was really surprising
and just the mothers and the womens and their journey
and how they migrated was really awesome and dope.
- You guys will do some traveling now that you know
where your results are from?
- Yes.
- I love traveling, I love going anywhere
and now I can go and be like, I'm from here.
Let's go.
- I'll go to the bathroom, I'll go anywhere.
- 23andME at-home genetic testing.
- Lady tested. - Lady learned.