Hey all, I had my parents and myself tested and everything went out great. However, what confused me most were my father's results. Him, being Bolivian, got 72% Native American (69%-75% range), which isn't a surprise since Bolivia has an overwhelmingly large indigenous population. However, he was tested with 10% Irish (2%-19% range). We were expected a ton of Spanish, but he only got 4% (0%-9% range). My question is, could Irish DNA be confused with Basque DNA? I've been looking into similarities between the Basque and Irish (along with other Celtic peoples), and so far it makes more sense to me that his Irish is actually Basque (or other northern Spanish). This would make more sense since the Spanish (and Basque) had a greater presence in Bolivia than the Irish (if you exclude the 19th century tin investors).
What makes this more interesting is that the Basque profile is more illustrated in the Europe West DNA forum than the Iberian forum, which is inaccurate as there are more Basques in Iberia than Western Europe (France). Now my father had absolutely no genetic tie to the Europe West profile, so I was lucky to stumble on this.
If all of this is the case, then there should be more clarification between how far DNA can go back and the ability to distinguish genetic similarities no matter how distant the years of isolation are.