Are Gulf Arabs Fully Caucasoid?

[Gohenk]

I have read a comment pointing that most Yemenis are fully caucasoid.
I would like to know if that is true only for Yemenis or if other Gulf Arabs like Saudis and Emiratis are fully caucasoid as well.

[Italicus]

In the Najd region, yes.

[Smeagol]

First of all, Yemenis are not Gulf Arabs.

Second, all pure Arabs are Caucasoids but there have been foreign elements imported into the Gulf over the centuries as well.

[Jingle Bell]

Mostly yes, but NE African or some AASI input is not rare also, but thinking that even the "purest" ones are mostly Natufian-based (Natufian is basically Dzud + IberoMaurisian) they have some old SSA-like/ANA admixture).

[Leto]

Most are clearly not, especially Yemen and Oman. But even their Caucasoid component is pretty brown. They have practically no European ancestry unlike the Levant.

[Zanzibar]

Mostly yes, but NE African or some AASI input is not rare also, but thinking that even the "purest" ones are mostly Natufian-based (Natufian is basically Dzud + IberoMaurisian) they have some old SSA-like/ANA admixture).

Yup even the purest Saudians, Bedouins, Yemenis (without recent SSA input) still have around 10-12% native African (mainly ANA) ancestry from their Natufian forebears.

[Smeagol]

Most are clearly not, especially Yemen and Oman.

You're mistaking the descendants of slaves for real Arabs. Highland Yemenis for example show almost no Negroid traits.

[Östsvensk]

Virtually all Muslim Arabs have SSA admixture, and that's why they pull away from Europeans on a PCA:

http://faculty.scs.illinois.edu/~mcd...PCA84pops.html

Estimated SSA admixture:

K14_temp - Google Sheets
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...htmlview#gid=0

Syrians 1.9%
Palestinians 2.7%
Jordanians 6.5%
Egyptians 9%
Moroccan 14.9%
Algerians 15.7%

Eurogenes K8 103 Selected Population Averages - Google Drive
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...XwUsAA/pubhtml

Lebanese Muslim 4.02%
Syrians 5.78%
Saudi 7.07%
Palestinians 8.55%
Egyptians 17.71%
Moroccan 20.44%

[Zanzibar]

Mostly yes, but NE African or some AASI input is not rare also, but thinking that even the "purest" ones are mostly Natufian-based (Natufian is basically Dzud + IberoMaurisian) they have some old SSA-like/ANA admixture).

To further add to the comment, Levantines including Samaritans and Mesopotamians/indigenous Iraqis have some amounts of indigenous African ancestry as well (in the range of 3-6% ANA) from their Natufian-related components but not as much as "pure" tribal Arabs have. Heck, even Cypriots seems to have 1-2% ANA likely from their Levantine input.

Ancient Egyptians (without recent Nilotic or West African/Bantu admixture) also seem to be around 10-13% indigenous African input (ANA) although I have seen one sample who is around 16-17% African (Nakht Ankh individual who seem to have additional Nilotic input (from mixing with Nubians?)) as they are also mostly Natufian-derived just like Peninsular Arabs are.

Natufians were around 12-14% ANA on average which put them at around at leaast 30% Iberomaurusian. They likely receive this gene flow from mixing with Taforalt-like populations somewhere in Northeast Africa (Egypt-Sudan) before migrating to the Near East and becoming progenitors of most MENAs.

[Gohenk]

First of all, Yemenis are not Gulf Arabs.

Second, all pure Arabs are Caucasoids but there have been foreign elements imported into the Gulf over the centuries as well.

I apologize for the mistake