Quote: (10-15-2014 06:24 PM)tattiemasher Wrote:
Mines was mostly as expected, with a 0.1% surprise from halfway around the world.
I have talked with several geneticists, and they all cautioned me that something like a .1% surprise could easily just be "noise" and not representative of anything real.
Quote: (10-15-2014 08:26 PM)Deluge Wrote:
@Sonsowey most if not all Middle Eastern ethnic groups have some level of gene flow from sub-Saharan Africa, so if you're half Jewish that should not be surprising at all. Same goes for people with any ancestors from Spain, Portugal and Sicily, either from their Arab ruled periods for all three or Sephardi Jews in the Middle Ages for the former two.
Well in my case, the African component is on one side of the family and the Jewish (ashkenazi) is on the other side, so they're unrelated.
Ashkenazi Jews from what I know do NOT have any real African ancestry. People in the Middle East who have African ancestry almost all have it because of the Muslim slave trade. Interestingly, if you look at different religious groups in the middle east, almost all non-Muslims (Jews, Christians, others) lack this African element.
In my case though, because I have this Jewish and separate African component, 23andme said the people I was most like globally were actually Palestinians, who have about 2-3% Sub-Saharan African heritage, which is about my percentage as well.
Quote: (10-15-2014 10:49 PM)MrXY Wrote:
Quote: (10-15-2014 09:23 PM)Sourcecode Wrote:
So many white people in America try to claim they are part Native American via some feature..like ability to get a tan better ect.. when rarely are people part native America.
Not sure the basis of that statement, intermarriage and interbreeding between whites and Native Americans has been common for centuries.
23andme did a study about the ancestry of "white" "black" and "latino" Americans, and found that, in "white" people, somewhere less than 5% have any African or Native American heritage.
I have heard it said that on 23andme, it's very common for a white person to believe that they have Native American ancestry only to find out that they don't have any at all. My own case demonstrates at least one example of how this lie can be passed down generation to generation without anyone questioning it.
Because of my Jewish features and darker complexion, many people would always tell me "Oh yea, I can totally see the Native American in you". It was just completely made up though.