23andme matches Jewish DNA to Iraq

[waam]

https://youtu.be/j5s-s1oGzVM
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She's a full Libyan Jew with no Iraqi ancestry. Highest percentage is Western Asia with the closest match being Iraq. For some reason this makes so much sense to me. This makes me want to see more Mizrahi/Sephardi 23andme updated results so if anyone has any sharing here is welcome.

This also raises the question of which populations were their references for Iraq since Iraq is so diverse.

[Myanthropologies]

That's so cool. I wonder why it matches to Iraq, considering Iraqis are basically Bedouin + Iranian.

[waam]

Yeah I wonder about that too... On the other hand maybe it is due to the fact Iraq has everything from Bedouins to Assyrians to Kurds so it acts like some sort of an ambiguous Western Asian match.

Either way I think it's really cool and really wonder what was their actual reference population for it.