Originally Posted by
gixajo
If you want to show the "real" NW African ancestry from Canary islands you should use maybe the Canarian Guanches ancient reference (medieval).
Simply use your calculator removing the Canarian reference and using it as target:
Target: Northwest-African_Canarian:Spanish_Canarias
Distance: 1.0042% / 0.01004225 | ADC: 0.25x RC
75.6 Iberian
14.6 Central-Maghrebian
6.4 Central-Italian
2.4 Mediterranean-Islander_Sardinian
1.0 East-Meghrebian
My two objections to using that reference would basically be:
-You can call this African because of their geographical situation, but in my opinion, it´s wrong doing it and can be easily misunderstood, even adding "_Canarian" after this. Using nowadays Canarians to show NW African ancestry would be the same as using Afrikaners to show African ancestry and call it Southern Africa, or Zulu.
-Simply it is counterproductive for the North Africans, and for the Iberians, since it will not correctly discriminate the Iberian component of the NAs or the NW African component of the Iberians (or anyone who usually obtains a mixture of these two components in these calculators).
Anyway, it´s your calculator, so do what you want.:)