Autosomal results of Mauritians
Making this thread to show the variation and mixes found in people from Mauritius. Mauritians in diaspora typically mix a lot with natives, so some results will be of people with a non-Mauritian parent/grandparent.
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A short background on the genetics of Mauritius, with some speculative data (Demographics are poorly recorded on the island):
- Some 70% of Mauritians are of fully Indian descent. (Surprisingly, I have literally 0 fully South Asian Mauritian DNA relatives on 23andMe)
- Creoles, or mixed Mauritians -particularly referencing those mixed with African ancestry- make up 25% (The community my father's side of the family belongs to)
- Whites and Chinese make up the remaining 5%
- There was no native population, everyone has 'foreign' ancestry
- Though the Arabs first found the island and the Portuguese later came across it (naming Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues the Mascarene Islands after Pedro Mascarenhas), it was only colonised by the Dutch, French and British.
- Indentured labourers were taken from China, India, Madagascar, mainland Africa and the Malay archipelago to work on sugar cane plantations, but India as visible today clearly provided most of the workers. There has since been free migration between the aforementioned nations and many people have a foreign born parent, grandparent etc.
- A large part of the culture is Indian derived and most Indo-Mauritians are multilingual in French, English and their ancestral language.
Autosomal results of Mauritians
Finally an Indo-Mauritian with what looks like some more distant English, Chinese and African ancestry
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Autosomal results of Mauritians
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Originally Posted by
El_Abominacion
The results of this guy's mother
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