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« on: Thursday 29 October 15 22:02 GMT (UK) »
Hi
Just got my ancestry DNA results. My mother is German (back 5 generations in the same area at least). My father is British. My results came back 94% British, 1% Eastern European, 1% Scandinavian and the rest was traces. My question is how can I be so high in British DNA which can only have been passed down the male line and no trace of Western European? My mother definitely is my mother, I look exactly like her.
I thought we only inherited small amounts of the y line, so how can it be so high in my case? I thought we mostly inherited from the maternal line.
My sister has also tested and is third British, third west Europe, third Scandinavian
Can anyone shed any light?
Thanks