No studies so far have been able to show statistically significant differences in Neandertal ancestry between individuals from the same population. The apparent differences in analyses such as the PCA in the 23andme paper could be attributed to sampling variance. For example, West Africans also display variance in the similarity to the Neandertal data (see e.g. John Hawks recent post), even though under the current model they have no Neandertal ancestry.

When admixture occurred so long ago it is expected that it will homogenize in the population over time. Even though there could definitely be small differences we probably need more data from multiple Neandertals to accurately assess this.

The closest cluster towards the Chimpanzee component are the Africans, then South Asians, Europeans and East Asians at the other end of the spectrum.

The Denisova component (PC2) is harder to tell but Eurasians are in between Neanderthals and Denisova.

Although John Hawks has recently noted some regional variation within China – but it’s not zero anywhere there.

I’m Korean.

Average customer: 2.5%

This seems unexciting. I feel somehow I want to be either all the way caveman or 0%.

I’m tall with long limbs but with prominent bone structure everywhere: cheeks, jaw, hip bones etc. also I and some other family members have a very obvious bump on the back of our heads (occipital bun?) I always thought we just had some russian/central asian phenotype though.

I’m sure this isn’t an original thought, but I always have thought that there is a “shnoz zone” from Europe all the way through India and Central Asia that might have be the rough range of the Neanderthals. compare the noses of the modern day inhabitants of this region to those of Asia and Africa. (except Japan, see the Ainu). You could also call it a hirsute zone, too.

Exerpt:

However, we believe there is a number of shortcomings with this approach.
First, there is no formal guarantee that these SNPs are indeed of Neanderthal origin.
Then, even in the ideal case where all of the 180 SNPs are indeed of Neanderthal
origin, they identify only 13 regions, the longest of which spans 160,000
bases. This is two orders of magnitude lower than 1% of Neanderthal ancestry
in ones genome. Therefore, the number of tag SNPs where one carries the Neanderthal
allele has very little information on the total amount of Neanderthal
ancestry one may have.

But not stocky at all. Medium height and thin figure

Wife 2.3%, Wife’s Dad 2.3%, Wife’s grandmother 2.6% – all V2
Wife’s Dad 2.5%, Wife’s Mom 2.7% – all V3

So V3 is adding 0.2% more to results – at least is one sample – something to figure in when comparing.

So the highest is my daughter at 2.9% V2, and while she doesn’t have a Neanderthal phenotype, her French/Italian grandfather did – he is stocky, short (5′ 7″) a great rugby player – played a position similar to a Running Back in American football – and was of the fastest sprinters France ever produced – he still holds the 60M sprint record he set about 50 years ago, when he was 17 yo.

BTW, I’m sharing with about 1200 people at Basic, and 350 at Advanced, and when I look at the people with 3.2% Neanderthal, I see a slight preponderance of Russians in the results, plus a relative who is 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Vietnamese.

I’m 3.0%. I already knew I was ~1-4% Neandertal, but this makes it more real somehow.