Genetic study on North Africans

**~~Sikeliot~~** · 02-02-2015, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Jerban

So I think they used an admixed population, probably Hratnas, because there is no was that High Atlas Berbers have 33% Subsaharan, I know plenty of them here, and I've bien to Agadir and people look not that Subsaharan.
Akhannouch is typical of Southern Atlassian Berbers.

IMO he looks Portuguese or southern Spanish.

**randomguy1235** · 02-02-2015, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by Gilgamesh900

Hmm, good point. Anyway, what do you think about Egyptians clustering more closer to middle easterners(esp to us Palis) than to other NAs.

Well, which Egyptians did they sample (North or South)? And is it ancient admixture from the Levant that makes them cluster closer to us?

**Jerban** · 02-02-2015, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by Gilgamesh900

Hmm, good point. Anyway, what do you think about Egyptians clustering more closer to middle easterners(esp to us Palis) than to other NAs.

It's normal, you have a lot of common ancestors, btw in dodecad project, Egyptians plot southern than Maghrebis.

**Jerban** · 02-02-2015, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by Sikeliot

IMO he looks Portuguese or southern Spanish.

He's Southern Moroccan less than 100km from Western Sahara. His name is Aziz Akhannouch.

**Jerban** · 02-02-2015, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by randomguy1235

Well, which Egyptians did they sample (North or South)? And is it ancient admixture from the Levant that makes them cluster closer to us?

Both are far in dodecad project. But according to the studies on DNA. Deltans are closer to you.

**~~Kamal900~~** · 02-02-2015, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by randomguy1235

Well, which Egyptians did they sample (North or South)? And is it ancient admixture from the Levant that makes them cluster closer to us?

Im not sure which because i haven't read the samples of the Egyptians they took but its mostly likely north because the upper Egyptians live further away from the Levant and have more SSA admixture than the northerners. Yeah, Egypt and the southern Levant had connections and etc even from the earliest formation of Egypt where the Pharaoh, Narmer, established colony and trade links in Palestine. Egypt does have higher levantine admixture and etc than their contemporaries in the Maghreb region which made them cluster in the middle eastern branch rather than to NA one.