Petition updateAncestryDNA: Improve Your Reference Panel To Make Your DNA Testing AccurateThe Reference Panel Just Got Worse

Nicole CzarneckiPrivate, MD, United States

Oct 9, 2025
I’ve been keeping my eye on the Ancestry update for a while. If you didn’t think that the new panel could be skewed, you were wrong. Example:
Albania
128
Anatolia & the Caucasus
2,000
Arabian Peninsula
1,260
Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe & Russia
2,054
Ashkenazi Jews in Central & Southeastern Europe
2,291
Azores
1,501
Basque
253
Bengal
1,146
Benin & Togo
1,138
Brittany, France
85
Burusho
17
Clearly, 1:1 ratios with minimum samples of 400 (though ideally 1000) in all groups are not present. That alone skews the results.
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