Is West Asian a European component?

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Originally Posted by Urbanuss

So you must include East Asian and North African (NA is caucasoid) as "European".

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North Africans have large amounts of west and east med. their non Caucasoid component is ssa. North Africans aren’t a component on their own but comprised of multiple components. Secondly tf do u mean East Asian

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Originally Posted by Permafrost

West Asian is what gives Europeans a sallow complexion, big round eyes and a lot of body hair.

It's literally worse than the bubbonic plague.

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Your very mistaken, people with the highest west Asian in the world where it peaks like baloch, South Caucasus Georgia iran etc mostly have small eyes not big bulging eyes

The large almond type eyes (with/without bags underneath) is a Mediterranean trait.

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Originally Posted by Didac

North Africans have large amounts of west and east med. their non Caucasoid component is ssa. North Africans aren’t a component on their own but comprised of multiple components. Secondly tf do u mean East Asian

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They also constitute their own component though through a long lasting isolation. Taforalt people were extremely distinct for instance.

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Originally Posted by Roy

They also constitute their own component though through a long lasting isolation. Taforalt people were extremely distinct for instance.

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How can they constitute their own component when they’re comprised of three very clear components

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Originally Posted by Didac

How can they constitute their own component when they’re comprised of three very clear components

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You can make up a new component with anything, especially based on moderns. In the case Taforalt, it's mostly West Eurasian + 1/3 SSA. You can call that "Taforalt" because it was particularly found there at a certain time. People today who have that specific combination in the right proportions will score it too. Many others components are like that with Oceanian or East Asian. They just tend to fool people into thinking they are not made of what they are actually made of, until you look at them with the prism of more ancient and distinct populations. Chiefly the big 4, Caucasoid, SSA, Oceanian, East Asian (eventually Amerindian).

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Originally Posted by Petalpusher

You can make up a new component with anything, especially based on moderns. In the case Taforalt, it's mostly West Eurasian + 1/3 SSA. You can call that "Taforalt" because it was particularly found there at a certain time. People today who have that specific combination in the right proportions will score it too. Many others components are like that with Oceanian or East Asian. They just tend to fool people into thinking they are not made of what they are actually made of, until you look at them with the prism of more ancient and distinct populations. Chiefly the big 4, Caucasoid, SSA, Oceanian, East Asian (eventually Amerindian).

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As you just said you can make a component out of anything then it’s not accurate is it because if someone scores North African they’re Essentially scoring it bc they have east and west med or ssa. It’s not accurate to make components out of modern ethnicities

Non European, the ethbicities which have significant amount of it r boarder european. Whg/ehg genetics are the base

According to some analysis I did on ancient samples provided by David Reich on his website, it seems that the so called "Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers" and the prehistoric Iranians cluster together in a component that I call West Asian.

That component is not present in an homogenous form in Europe, but perhaps some do have. So my answer is a maybe.