Half-Sicilian, Half-Pontic Greek ADNA Results

[Sp_loa]

Jesus he is more West Asian than I'm...
And I'm jewish, I mean my origins should be from the middle east.
I wonder where is it coming from, usually Sicilians or greeks are not that MENA.

[Bobby Martnen]

Jesus he is more West Asian than I'm...
And I'm jewish, I mean my origins should be from the middle east.
I wonder where is it coming from, usually Sicilians or greeks are not that MENA.

Pontic Greeks are a mix of ethnic Greeks with local Caucasian/Anatolian peoples, and score higher MENA than most Greeks from the Balkans and Ionia

[Lavrentis]

Jesus he is more West Asian than I'm...
And I'm jewish, I mean my origins should be from the middle east.
I wonder where is it coming from, usually Sicilians or greeks are not that MENA.

He is not Greek, he is Anatolian 'Greek'. Anatolian 'Greeks' are Greek-speaking West Asians. They were linguistically Greekified during the Hellenistic and Byzantine eras. They were later sent to Greece via a population exchange with Turkey in 1923. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popula...ece_and_Turkey

[Hudayar]

maybe the calculator is shit?

[Sp_loa]

Pontic Greeks are a mix of ethnic Greeks with local Caucasian/Anatolian peoples, and score higher MENA than most Greeks from the Balkans and Ionia

That makes sense. But I'm still shocked that even I'm less west asian (21% combined Middle east+Caucasus).

[Sp_loa]

He is not Greek, he is Anatolian 'Greek'. Anatolian 'Greeks' are Greek-speaking West Asians. They were linguistically Greekified during the Hellenistic and Byzantine eras. They were later sent to Greece via a population exchange with Turkey in 1923. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popula...ece_and_Turkey

Ok, got it. Thanks.

[Sikeliot]

Jesus he is more West Asian than I'm...
And I'm jewish, I mean my origins should be from the middle east.
I wonder where is it coming from, usually Sicilians or greeks are not that MENA.

Pontians have more MENA than Sicilians, and Sicilians have more than Greeks from Greece.

[Bobby Martnen]

Pontians have more MENA than Sicilians, and Sicilians have more than Greeks from Greece.

I think it goes this way, please correct me if I'm wrong

MOST MENA

SEPHARDIC JEWS
ASHKENAZIC JEWS
PONTIC GREEKS
GREEK ISLANDERS
PENINSULAR SOUTH ITALIANS
SICILIANS
BALKAN GREEKS

MOST EUROPEAN

[Lavrentis]

I think it goes this way, please correct me if I'm wrong

MOST MENA

SEPHARDIC JEWS
ASHKENAZIC JEWS
PONTIC GREEKS
GREEK ISLANDERS
PENINSULAR SOUTH ITALIANS
SICILIANS
BALKAN GREEKS

MOST EUROPEAN

Native Greek islanders are not different from mainlanders. There have been a lot of migrations from Anatolian Greeks to Greek islands though.

And you really think that peninsular south Italians are more MENA than Sicilians? First of all, peninsular south Italians are the closest relatives of the Greeks.

[Sp_loa]

Pontians have more MENA than Sicilians, and Sicilians have more than Greeks from Greece.

Thats cool. the Southern European people are kind of diverse .
Actually I have a lot of DNA from all over Italy and some DNA from the Balkans (I think Greece-Bulgaria).
I wonder where all of this DNA is coming from because my family lived in Spain for 1500 years and not in Italy. The greek part might be from my paternal side, because in inquisition time they escaped to Thesaloniki , but I have too much greek ancestry, and it can't explain all of it.
The Italian side is a complete mystery- I know jews first arrived to Spain through Italy, but it is still wired. My great-grandmother surname was Gino/Zino and I understood it is an Italian surname (did Italians converted to judaism?).
I guess I'm a complete mystery lol.