Dr. Melissa Ilardo

It's in the family of like the Maltese, Bichon, Cotone family. So these little fluffy white dogs that are in Renaissance paintings sitting in the laps of royalty.

It's in the family of like the Maltese, Bichon, Cotone family. So these little fluffy white dogs that are in Renaissance paintings sitting in the laps of royalty.

It's in the family of like the Maltese, Bichon, Cotone family. So these little fluffy white dogs that are in Renaissance paintings sitting in the laps of royalty.

So these little fluffy white dogs that are in Renaissance paintings sitting in the laps of royalty.

Yeah, so starting with admixture. Admixture is just when different ancestry populations mix. So it's kind of this relative term because if we're all descended from one ancestral population, then maybe we all have one ancestry. But I always like to put it in the context of myself. So my dad is 100% Italian. My mom's a mix of Northern European.

Yeah, so starting with admixture. Admixture is just when different ancestry populations mix. So it's kind of this relative term because if we're all descended from one ancestral population, then maybe we all have one ancestry. But I always like to put it in the context of myself. So my dad is 100% Italian. My mom's a mix of Northern European.

Yeah, so starting with admixture.

Yeah, so starting with admixture. Admixture is just when different ancestry populations mix. So it's kind of this relative term because if we're all descended from one ancestral population, then maybe we all have one ancestry. But I always like to put it in the context of myself. So my dad is 100% Italian. My mom's a mix of Northern European.

Admixture is just when different ancestry populations mix.

So it's kind of this relative term because if we're all descended from one ancestral population, then maybe we all have one ancestry.

But I always like to put it in the context of myself.

So my dad is 100% Italian.

My mom's a mix of Northern European.

I am an admixed individual, you know, if you think about it that way. And the reason that this is important in genetic studies is that if I claimed to be Italian and were included in a genetic study of Italians, the genetic variation that I have coming in from my mom's side would confuse that analysis. So admixture creates a ton of problems when we try to do genetic analyses.

I am an admixed individual, you know, if you think about it that way.

I am an admixed individual, you know, if you think about it that way. And the reason that this is important in genetic studies is that if I claimed to be Italian and were included in a genetic study of Italians, the genetic variation that I have coming in from my mom's side would confuse that analysis. So admixture creates a ton of problems when we try to do genetic analyses.

I am an admixed individual, you know, if you think about it that way. And the reason that this is important in genetic studies is that if I claimed to be Italian and were included in a genetic study of Italians, the genetic variation that I have coming in from my mom's side would confuse that analysis. So admixture creates a ton of problems when we try to do genetic analyses.

And the reason that this is important in genetic studies is that if I claimed to be Italian and were included in a genetic study of Italians, the genetic variation that I have coming in from my mom's side would confuse that analysis.

So admixture creates a ton of problems when we try to do genetic analyses.

And so that's generally why we try to quantify it in genetics. But yeah, you know, when we're talking about, it depends on kind of what scale, because I'm 100% European. So in that way, I'm not admixed, if we're talking on the scale of continents. So it becomes kind of a blurry concept of admixture. depending on what level we're looking at.