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From a paper released today.
http://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(17)30276-8
5 Canaanite individuals from Israel, 1700BC. 2 males, 3 females.
They compared them autosomally to Lebanese people and found 91% similarity, which is a little surprising; also that they cluster with EBA people from Jordan, showing genetic continuity in the region for thousands of years, etc. Authors hypothesise that J came to the Levant alongside Iran_Chalcolithic type ancestry as it was absent before that (ie, Natufians were E).
Sidon_BA (ancient Lebanon) was found to be closer to Assyrians, MENA Jews and even Sephardim than Lebanese Muslims, however.
YDNA
1x J1-P58
1x J2-M12
the former very common amongst Jews, Arabs, Levantines, the latter found over the MENA and Albania too.
MTDNA
1x N1a3a
1x HV1b1
1x K1a2
1x R2
1x H1bc
Very varied, nothing out of the ordinary for a MENA group however.
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