Seems like it might just be a population quirk, considering my Dad has some element of it too, though he is slightly more aligned with the other Levant samples. Honestly, what I have gotten out of this is that I probably should have tested my mom as well...
https://i.ibb.co/NmcRmRF/sacha-5.jpg
(Sacha_LF2 has 1.2% Cypriot on 23andMe but that doesn't mean much, thought it was interesting to note though.)
On Eurogenes K36 and K13 I have very high East_Med. I think it might be high ANF/EEF that does this. I will probably mess around with qpAdm a bit soon to get a better reading on that, but on top of G25 component calculators giving me heavy ANF, I also seem to get small Italian splits that are almost always Sardinian. And then when you look at 2D-ified PCAs, I leave the main population 'packs' in a weird way, I have posted this PCA a few times before, but it is relevant and I like the visual:
https://i.ibb.co/RhDN3L4/sachas.jpg
But if you see on that global one where I have zoomed in on the Europe and West Asia clusters, it kind of looks like I could be in that overlap zone with other Near East populations and South Europeans, but something is pulling me 'out.' And that other population in the bottom left corner is a little cluster of Sardinians, who have very high EEF. I don't care as much about the G25 calculators as a measure of admixture, they are not the most accurate in that regard, but as a comparative tool for shift they are pretty convenient.
I also wonder if back-to-Syria Maronite migration from Cyprus had any effect on the population in my area specifically, because there are many with a last name that means "Cypriot," but as far as I can tell those who returned didn't really mix that much outside of the Maronite community. I am related to a few on 23 that show up as 100% Levantine and have multiple generations tested. But I guess that is just the mystery of Sacha Fit Syndrome (trademark)
