Arab with some Jewish ancestry? Anyone got any ideas?

[whoibe]

Your Sephardic-specific matches, as opposed to Mizrachi matches, remind me of this:

I do have quite a few Iberian matches with a triangulated segment, a couple of whom I share with the Sephardic matches. I don't score any Iberian though, and I don't know how uncommon it is for a levantine to have Iberian matches. This is my Ancient G25 result (top 10 populations):

"distance%=1.7379"

Levant_BA_North,39.6
Egypt_Late_Period,5.4
England_Roman_o,4.8
Iberia_Southeast_c.10-16CE,4
Hajji_Firuz_ChL,3.2
Levant_ChL,3
Egypt_Hellenistic,2.4
Iberia_Southeast_c.5-8CE,1.6
Sappali_Tepe_BA,1.6
Tepe_Hissar_ChL,1.6

But then again, that doesn't say much really, as the Syrian average also includes some ancient Iberian admixture:

[1] "distance%=1.154"

Levant_BA_North,32.8
Hajji_Firuz_ChL,8.8
Egypt_Late_Period,4.4
England_Roman_o,3.6
Italy_Medieval_Collegno_o1,3.4
Iberia_Southeast_c.10-16CE,3.2
Armenia_ChL,2.4
Iran_recent,2.4
Hasanlu_IA,2.2
Sappali_Tepe_BA,2

[Pine]

I do have quite a few Iberian matches with a triangulated segment, a couple of whom I share with the Sephardic matches. I don't score any Iberian though, and I don't know how uncommon it is for a levantine to have Iberian matches. This is my Ancient G25 result (top 10 populations):

"distance%=1.7379"

Levant_BA_North,39.6
Egypt_Late_Period,5.4
England_Roman_o,4.8
Iberia_Southeast_c.10-16CE,4
Hajji_Firuz_ChL,3.2
Levant_ChL,3
Egypt_Hellenistic,2.4
Iberia_Southeast_c.5-8CE,1.6
Sappali_Tepe_BA,1.6
Tepe_Hissar_ChL,1.6

But then again, that doesn't say much really, as the Syrian average also includes some ancient Iberian admixture:

[1] "distance%=1.154"

Levant_BA_North,32.8
Hajji_Firuz_ChL,8.8
Egypt_Late_Period,4.4
England_Roman_o,3.6
Italy_Medieval_Collegno_o1,3.4
Iberia_Southeast_c.10-16CE,3.2
Armenia_ChL,2.4
Iran_recent,2.4
Hasanlu_IA,2.2
Sappali_Tepe_BA,2

Sephardic Jews don't have much Iberian to begin with.

[whoibe]

Sephardic Jews don't have much Iberian to begin with.

Could it also be from the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula?

[Pine]

Could it also be from the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula?

I don't know how atypical it is for a Palestinian in that G25 model.

[whoibe]

I don't know how atypical it is for a Palestinian in that G25 model.

I used Syrian because I plot the closest to them. This is Palestinian:
Though obviously this is the entire spreadsheet again and I don't know if everyone gets Iberian matches as well.

"distance%=1.695"

	 Palestinian

England_Roman_o,28
Levant_BA_North,19.6
Egypt_Late_Period,9.6
Guanche_Canary_Islands,6
Levant_BA_South,5.2
Egypt_Hellenistic,3.6
Sappali_Tepe_BA,2.6
Iberia_Southeast_c.10-16CE,2.2
Hajji_Firuz_ChL,1.8
Seh_Gabi_ChL,1.6

[Pine]

I used Syrian because I plot the closest to them. This is Palestinian:
Though obviously this is the entire spreadsheet again and I don't know if everyone gets Iberian matches as well.

"distance%=1.695"

	 Palestinian

England_Roman_o,28
Levant_BA_North,19.6
Egypt_Late_Period,9.6
Guanche_Canary_Islands,6
Levant_BA_South,5.2
Egypt_Hellenistic,3.6
Sappali_Tepe_BA,2.6
Iberia_Southeast_c.10-16CE,2.2
Hajji_Firuz_ChL,1.8
Seh_Gabi_ChL,1.6

How many segments are the 20cm you share with them spread out over?

[whoibe]

How many segments are the 20cm you share with them spread out over?

The Sephardic or the Iberians?

edit: okay just had a look, Sephardic: two or three, with matches that are 12 cM total 1 segment.
Iberian: closest is 17 cM over 2 segments

[Pine]

The Sephardic or the Iberians?

edit: okay just had a look, Sephardic: two or three, with matches that are 12 cM total 1 segment.
Iberian: closest is 17 cM over 2 segments

I forget the exact tables, but you probably have a Sephardic ancestor.

[whoibe]

I forget the exact tables, but you probably have a Sephardic ancestor.

Which tables? You mean the genetic relationship? I believe the distance should be about Cousin 6th degree.

What does the number of segments tell you?

[whoibe]

so I just converted my ancestrydna file to a 23andme format and then used this tool to predict my mtdna: https://dna.jameslick.com

Result: H2a2a1

I looked through my gedmatch results to see who else had it and it was one of my sephardic matches with the chromosome segment I share with other sephardic matches