What is the smallest amount of Black African DNA that you can have, and have it still show in looks?

[Sikeliot]

* NOTE: This is NOT a classification of my aunt, I am just using her as an example. The poll is nothing to do with her specifically.

I don't know if we've ever determined an amount.

But I know that I think it can show up phenotypically, or least have a vague impact, even into the single digits.

My great aunt, some of you said she looked offwhite, and others said she looks blatantly admixed.. but judging by the amount of African my mother and I score, given that DNA tests are fickle when percentages are small, she could be at the least 3% African and at the most 10%, assuming our autosomal profiles have received all of the African genes we have. But I don't think I'd call her "white", even if she isn't blatantly mixed.



So, what percentage is the smallest amount at which you can still see traces (whether blatant or subtle) of SSA?

[Hadouken]

50%

because below that you are a white mulatto

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Even one dark gene could darken you up a lot. Especially dark eye genes, those are the most obvious.

[Odin]

6-10%.

[Tooting Carmen]

5-10%

[Black Panther]

6-10%

[Black Panther]

50%

because below that you are a white mulatto

[alnortedelsur]

6-10%.

I would say definitively more than that, lol

I'm between 4-6% SSA and it doesn't show whatsoever neither in my phenotype nor in the phenotype of any of my siblings.

Furthermore, my dad is very likely between 8-12% SSA (judging by my results, and because my mom is full Euro), and it doesn't show at all on his phenotype nor in the phenotype of his three deceased full brothers.

I would say the limit for it to show just a little bit is in the 13-16% mark, and still, many people in that range of SSA admix, don't show it in their looks.

[Token]

5-10%.

[Kouros]

It depends what the rest of your ancestry is and how good of an eye you have.

For example, guess this woman's ancestry: