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Comment by beaugunderson | Hacker News Reader

as a 23andMe user with a high percentage of Ashkenazi genes I expected my data to be in the leak but it wasn't so it's probably not all of the Ashkenazi data

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How did you verify? I am ashkenazi

assuming your last name is the same as in your HN username you are not in the file either

(as to how I verified: the file is still available on the leak site)

OK, that CSV is just a subset of the data they claim to have.... so our data might still be out there even if it wasn't in this file.

These are the headers:

  profile_id; account_id; first_name; last_name; sex; birth_year; has_health; ydna; mdna; current_location; regions; subregions; population_ids

First entry is

  Elon;Musk;Male;1971;...

There's a whole debate about whether Elon Musk has Jewish ancestry. Are you saying he is?

I have almost 6% myself, but to me it feels like, if I don't even know about who it might have been in my family tree, it doesn't really count.

But yes, for EM it said "Ashkenazi;Balkan;British Irish" - no percentages in there - and I believe 23andme has confirmed the authenticity of the data.

Glad I used 23andMe with a fake name and UPS PO Box

What did you use to pay for all of it?

Prepaid visa that I bought with cash at the supermarket. It’s a lot of work but it… worked.

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