Origin of the East-Meds?

[Teucer]

For many populations on gedmatch, whether they are Turks, Lebanese, Italians and Greeks, East-Med is more often than not their highest component relative to all others. What specific region do you think this ancestry came from?

Anatolia? Levant? Kura-Araxes culture in the Caucasus?

Don't be a smart-ass and say "from the Eastern Mediterranean".

[cyberlorian]

Caucasus, most probably.

[Livin]

I would say Mesopotamia without being sure!

[Hadouken]

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[Pahli]

Its usually associated with the Levant

[Livin]

https://goo.gl/images/Cuc4su

This part thought..

[cyberlorian]

Its usually associated with the Levant

I guess it is also associated with Eastern Balkans such as Greeks, Bulgarians and Romanians.

[Aren]

It's a modern component which I think David from Eurogenes used Eastern Mizrahi Jews as a reference. Some academic Iraqi Jewish samples score like 50+ East Med on Gedmatch so I suppose he used the Iraqi Jews but it seems to peak in Levantine Christians and Samaritan Jews.
With ancient components it's quite high in both Levantine and Anatolian farmers. I don't think it's gonna be higher in ancient Mesopotamian remains who will probably score significant amount of Iran_N-like input.

[Lavrentis]

I guess it is also associated with Eastern Balkans such as Greeks, Bulgarians and Romanians.

Greece is not Balkan.

[cyberlorian]

Greece is not Balkan.

But it is in Southeastern Europe.