Guess this person from their 23andme result?

[Sikeliot]

European: 29.9%
Italian: 11.3%
Balkan: 3.3%
Ashkenazi Jewish: 6.8%
British and Irish: 0.8%
Broadly Southern European: 5.9%
Broadly Northwestern European: 0.2%
Broadly European: 1.5%

Western Asian and North African: 68.6%
Western Asian: 64.6%
North African and Arabian: 1.5%
Broadly Western Asian and North African: 2.5%

East Asian and Native American: 0.2%
Broadly East Asian: 0.2%

South Asian: 0.7%

[Kaspias]

Could be Pontic-Greek,Anatolian Turk, Cyprian.

[Lauχum]

Cypriot

[Heather Duval]

Hes prob Sicilian, judging by OP intention. And this is prob another thread for you to say they are this and that non European.
https://i.imgur.com/BG68Q9S.gif

[Congolese Rice]

cypriot, turk, lebanese, anywhere in that range

[Sp_loa]

Lebanese? Syrian?

[Sp_loa]

Those are almost Identical to a results of Half Sephardic-half Mizrahi guy I know

[Sikeliot]

Here is the answer: Sicilian from Alcara li Fusi, Messina province.

I have NEVER seen anything like this but he has no traceable ancestry from outside that village. My guess is his ancestors consist of assimilated Jews.

Most Sicilians get 85-90% Europe, 10-15% MENA on 23andme.

[Lauχum]

Woah! I didn't expect West Asian to be that high even in the really south shifted Sicilian samples. The GEDmatch result would be very interesting.

[Lauχum]

Do Cypriots score similar results on 23andme?

[Sikeliot]

Do Cypriots score similar results on 23andme?

Yes.

My friend is trying to contact this person to see if they can be uploaded to GEDMatch. Even I can admit they are an extreme outlier even though all Sicilians have Near Eastern input that is significant.

I expect them to be similar to this but even more eastern Mediterranean -- this is that friends' father.

# Population Percent
1 East_Med 33.13
2 West_Med 20.9
3 North_Atlantic 16.88
4 West_Asian 16.07
5 Red_Sea 6.47
6 Baltic 3.28
7 Northeast_African 1.66
8 Sub-Saharan 0.8
9 East_Asian 0.71
10 South_Asian 0.1

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 South_Italian 3.86
2 Sephardic_Jewish 5.27
3 East_Sicilian 6.2
4 Italian_Jewish 6.67
5 Algerian_Jewish 7.5
6 Central_Greek 7.58
7 West_Sicilian 8.3
8 Ashkenazi 8.54
9 Italian_Abruzzo 8.64
10 Tunisian_Jewish 9.45
11 Libyan_Jewish 10.34
12 Cyprian 12.67
13 Greek_Thessaly 14.35
14 Tuscan 14.92
15 Lebanese_Muslim 15.68
16 Syrian 16.92
17 Turkish 18.56
18 Samaritan 19.04
19 Jordanian 19.62
20 Palestinian 19.88

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 70.2% Cyprian + 29.8% Spanish_Murcia @ 2.39
2 61.3% South_Italian + 38.7% Sephardic_Jewish @ 2.52
3 71.3% Cyprian + 28.7% Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 2.59
4 71.5% Cyprian + 28.5% Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha @ 2.59
5 76.4% South_Italian + 23.6% Tunisian_Jewish @ 2.66
6 69.9% Cyprian + 30.1% Spanish_Andalucia @ 2.69
7 73% Cyprian + 27% Spanish_Aragon @ 2.69
8 69.5% Cyprian + 30.5% Spanish_Extremadura @ 2.72
9 87.9% South_Italian + 12.1% Palestinian @ 2.76
10 78.8% South_Italian + 21.2% Libyan_Jewish @ 2.77
11 87.9% South_Italian + 12.1% Jordanian @ 2.79
12 59.1% Lebanese_Christian + 40.9% Spanish_Andalucia @ 2.81
13 71.6% Cyprian + 28.4% Spanish_Cataluna @ 2.83
14 70% Cyprian + 30% Portuguese @ 2.88
15 78.5% Cyprian + 21.5% French_Basque @ 2.96
16 86.2% South_Italian + 13.8% Lebanese_Muslim @ 2.96
17 87.1% South_Italian + 12.9% Syrian @ 2.96
18 71% Cyprian + 29% Spanish_Valencia @ 2.97
19 91% South_Italian + 9% Egyptian @ 3.02
20 65.3% Sephardic_Jewish + 34.7% Italian_Abruzzo @ 3.03

[rein]

Doesn’t seem possible that an ethnic Sicilian would get so little European.

[Lauχum]

Thanks for the info.

[Sikeliot]

Doesn’t seem possible that an ethnic Sicilian would get so little European.

There are 3 possibilities:

1. They are from a very isolated town in the middle of nowhere, so it is possible that there could be genetic or demographic peculiarities there, i.e. the towns in that area simply did not see a lot of migration from groups contributing to most of the European DNA in Sicily (Greeks, recent Italian input, Normans),

2. Their ancestors consist of assimilated Jews that they do not know about,

3. 23andme is not flawless at discerning between southeast Europeans and West Asians and is not a perfect system.

[Sikeliot]

Thanks for the info.

The red dot is where they are from -- this might explain it to me because this area is not a huge population center, did not see as much migration, and may retain genetic peculiarities.

http://legacy.ingv.it/roma/webterrNew/mappe/12092004132800.gif