23andme results of North-West African Jews (Haplogroups+Autosomal)

[Longbowman]

Can you share his results?

On AncestryDNA? I don't know, I asked him (can't see his results, don't know how others are doing that) and he told me he's 79% European Jewish, 11% Middle East, 6% Anatolia, and the remaining 4% 'some odd bits.'

[happycow]

AncestryDNA results of Ethnic Algerian (muslim).

Again, I don’t find these very accurate. Very high italian (why so high? And why Italian? Should be Spanish regarding history) and very high Middle East (why? Algerians are typicaly arabized berbers not Arabs). Only 30% Berber for ethnic Algerian?
I always browse in 23andme and AncestryDNA subreddit and people tested with 23andme say it’s more inline with what they know.

Again i don’t have any agenda. I just think AncestryDNA has some serious problems with Italian-Iberian and Middle East-North Africa.
23andme also has some problems assigning Southern levant in the North African-Arabian category and that why I don’t take their NA/Arabian percentage in moroccan jews as solely Berber (it’s obviously part levantine).

Moroccan Jews are more mixed and complicated than the companies can handle for now. Again I’m going to stick with 23andme but it would be interesting to see how it changes in the future for both companies.

I recall seeing various North African gedmatch results and they seem to score rather high Red Sea do they not? Maybe that explains the high Mid East in Ancestry?

[Oriko]

[QUOTE=Sp_loa;5859697]History of Jews in North Africa-

Moroccan Jews

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MtDNA: H
YDNA: Q-YP1236 (Prediasporal Judean, found among Mizrahim, Ashkenazim and Sephardim)


I was curious about this - how was it determined that Q-YP1236 is prediasporal Jewish? (or Judean as you call it). Are there sources from which it could be implied?

Thanks .