1/5 of men who claim direct paternal ancestry from Guinea are I1-M253

https://discover.familytreedna.com/y...M253/frequency

WTF? Why would 1/5 of the men in a West African country have Nordic Y-DNA?

Probably because only 5 people from Guinea shared their results and only 1 of them had haplogroup I1
There is no more mystery

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Originally Posted by Valenman

Probably because only 5 people from Guinea shared their results and only 1 of them had haplogroup I1
There is no more mystery

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But why would any Guinean man have I1?

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Originally Posted by Johnson Reed

But why would any Guinean man have I1?

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Easy, brah. Some Portuguese mulatto from the Cape Verde archipielago must have had it, gotten to sire some children while on visit to the continent on slave raiding/trading activities, and the resulting griffe brood kept marrying local until the leftover Euro admix was bred out through the centuries up to the present.