Using qpAdm to estimate Archaic Ancestry in Africans

[AndreiDNA]

https://youtu.be/ooSRTGBsL-0

[Gannicus]

I watched a podcast with David Reich and he really wants to get to some more ancient SSA genomes to better understand the structure of Sub-Saharan Africa.


I know this is off topic. In Nature, Morez et al was published. It was covering the genetics of the Old Kingdom Egyptian NUE001. In that article he was modeled as 80% Middle Neolithic Morocco and 20% Mesopotamian. It'd be cool if you revisited that sample and did qpAdm breakdown of the Middle Neolithic Moroccan sample and the Mesopotamian. From what I understand the MN Morroccans were Natufian and Iberomaurusian, however I don't know the specific % admix.

Your first video on NUE001 did well. Another video covering and repeating the findings of the Nature article may perform well too.


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5

[Petalpusher]

It's been estimated up the 19% in some tribes of West Africa.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax5097