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(03-08-2017, 06:04 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:Broadly Middle Eastern & North African 0.2% <-  This is a real WTF?
Broadly East Asian & Native American 0.1%   <-  Yes, this should be Cherokee, but not Apache, OK?

Someguy Wrote:I dunno, what's the margin of error?

I don't know for sure, but it sticks out with the folks I've shared ancestral DNA with.  They have 0, and I have that sticking out.

Quote:You should also consider the MENA bit could be a bit of Spanish or (southern) Italian blood.

That's another blank.  I have 0 South European. It's almost all N European with a .3% E. European. The ancestral map has 4 zones.
a.  There's NW Europe which is on a tribal level = Celtic/Germanic.
b.  NE Europe : Aland Islands.
c.  E. Europe, Slavs.  That's the .3 percent.
d.  Asia/N America :  Cherokee / Asian
a.  MENA

Quote: I know that y-chromosome haplogroups associated with MENA populations are well-represented in both Spain and Latin America.

Y = R1B*, which is either Celtic/Germanic. The best guess at present is Germanic with a L shaped set of dots going from Rostock Germany , to Netherlands, and up through East Great Britain.
X = East Europe, period.  This one's easy, Aaland Islands. Great Grandmother is from there.

Well, so since I can rule out Spain/Italy, how about "dirty Vikings" hypothesis.  I just typed "Arab Viking" into my favorite search engine and got this stuff:

http://sciencenordic.com/old-arabic-text...ty-vikings
http://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/w...ient-links
http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/fe...-965352085
...
A whole shitpot or other links.

Quote:  The Arab/Berber armies didn't necessarily bring a lot of women with them when they conquered Iberia, and likewise with the conquistadores when they came to the Americas.  There were also a fair number of North African/Iberian slaves and "converts" who ran off from the Spanish colonies (or at least to their fringes) and went and lived on their own/joined Indian tribes.  There were even, if I am not mistaken, a few freed Muslim slaves at the first English colony of Roanoke.

Or it could be you had a Jewish ancestor in there somewhere.  Or it could just be a statistical error of some kind.  Who knows, I wouldn't get all worked up about it, start attributing your taste in music to it or something. 

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Well, here's a theory.  I have an Arab woman as an ancestor.     Essentially, I'm a direct descendant of a horny Viking dude who took some MENA woman , cause , and we all know this.   Vikings were young horny dudes and when they established trade routes in say Baghdad, took some random Arab women an' took 'em back to Scandinavia.


So,,,,  ahhhh...   So fucking sue me.  I'm part Arab.