White Syrian DNA Results

[happycow]

Very interesting results! Honestly would not have guessed her Syrian lol. Quite a bit of Europe South! I'd like to see her gedmatch results.



Ancestry DNA results:

35% Caucasus
33% Middle East
26% Europe

Low confidence regions:
2% European Jewish
2% Asia Central
2% Nigeria

23andme results:

93.0% Western Asian & North African
- 79.5% Western Asian (Syria)
- 9.2% North African & Arabian
- 4.3% broadly Western Asian & North African

6.3% European
- 3.0% Italian
- 1.0% Balkan (Romania)
- 0.3% Ashkenazi Jewish
- 0.2% Eastern European
- 1.2% broadly Southern European
- 0.6% broadly European

0.2% East Asian & Native American
- 0.2% broadly East Asian & Native American

0.5% unassigned

mtDNA: K1a4

[Kukushka]

Depigmented Assyroid (?). She does not look European at all, althought she is very white indeed.

[happycow]

Depigmented Assyroid (?). She does not look European at all, althought she is very white indeed.

Yeah she's very light skinned. I think Syrians overall are the lightest of the levantine populations.

[Cernunnos]

She looks quite pan European. And to me she is White/European.

I remember seeing a Red haired Saddam Hussein minister or general and he was full Arab.

Guess that that's just a variation.

[Marmara]

I can confirm that some Syrians do look like her.

[Cernunnos]

I can confirm that some Syrians do look like her.

That's quite shocking to me.

Crusader heritage from France and England?

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and mainly the Antioch Principality were settled by English and French crusaders.

[Marmara]

That's quite shocking to me.

Crusader heritage from France and England?

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and mainly the Antioch Principality were settled by English and French crusaders.

Apparently not, her heritage doesn't indicate any North European ancestry. Probably a lighter pigmentation heavily blended with middle-eastern genetics but survived through selection. There is a lot more source of light hair and eyes in Middle-East than crusaders.

Anyway, many Syrian refugees here are extremely brown and exotic, rest are light skinned more West Asian looking and often pass Turkish. People like her do exist but as extreme minority. Even though Syrians can naturally have light eyes they usually come with semitic look, but she looks Euro.

[Cernunnos]

Apparently not, her heritage doesn't indicate any North European ancestry. Probably a lighter pigmentation heavily blended with middle-eastern genetics but survived through selection. There is a lot more source of light hair and eyes in Middle-East than crusaders.

Anyway, many Syrian refugees here are extremely brown and exotic, rest are light skinned more West Asian looking and often pass Turkish. People like her do exist but as extreme minority. Even though Syrians can naturally have light eyes they usually come with semitic look, but she looks Euro.

Well there are some unchecked/unconfirmed theories that Syrians and Lebanese are lighter because of Crusader blood. Maybe she is an atypical survivor or Pre Muslim/Arabic Levant.

[Marmara]

Well there are some unchecked/unconfirmed theories that Syrians and Lebanese are lighter because of Crusader blood. Maybe she is an atypical survivor or Pre Muslim/Arabic Levant.

Most Syrians are survivors of Arab invasion, most Syrians don't have Arabian roots and are just Arabized. Pre-Arab Syria wasn't a nordic place which you can see from Assyrians or Jews. Muslims, especially Sunni muslims tend to be lighter than others in Middle-East by the way.

[rein]

Most Syrians are survivors of Arab invasion, most Syrians don't have Arabian roots and are just Arabized. Pre-Arab Syria wasn't a nordic place which you can see from Assyrians or Jews. Muslims, especially Sunni muslims tend to be lighter than others in Middle-East by the way.

Must be God’s will to make them lighter.