LEBANESE MY HERITAGE RESULTS [Strange]

[chalcogen]

Is there a difference in DNA between Lebanese Christians and muslims?

This paper discusses it if you want to look more into such differences.

[Ahaddad]

This results is normal to Lebanese results or be Assyrian ? Because this is 100% Lebanese origin.

[whoibe]

This results is normal to Lebanese results or be Assyrian ? Because this is 100% Lebanese origin.

Google how to download MyHeritage results and upload them to Gedmatch, then people here will be able to help you more

[Ahaddad]

Google how to download MyHeritage results and upload them to Gedmatch, then people here will be able to help you more

It’s not mine is one cousin but by these numbers what you think?

[Pine]

Lebanese normally get Middle Eastern as their largest category on MyHeritage. However, I've seen Levantines get West Asian as their main category (i.e a Syrian).

[Ahaddad]

Lebanese normally get Middle Eastern as their largest category on MyHeritage. However, I've seen Levantines get West Asian as their main category (i.e a Syrian).

I think Lebanese have high % of West Asian with mixing with Middle Eastern/Sephardic Jewish, for example this Lebanese Have 66% west Asia and 31% Middle Eastern/ Sephardic. I think maybe Sephardic is close to levantines and can put in Levantine Middle Eastern people.

What mean west Asia? Is Lebanon include ? I see in YouTube a Syrian arab muslim with 70% west Asia and just 6% middle eastern.

[Pine]

I think Lebanese have high % of West Asian with mixing with Middle Eastern/Sephardic Jewish, for example this Lebanese Have 66% west Asia and 31% Middle Eastern/ Sephardic. I think maybe Sephardic is close to levantines and can put in Levantine Middle Eastern people.

What mean west Asia? Is Lebanon include ? I see in YouTube a Syrian arab muslim with 70% west Asia and just 6% middle eastern.

No, Lebanese didn't absorb Sephardic Jews. And Sephardic Jews are about as Levantine as Ashkenazi Jews. You're thinking of some Mizrachi Jews. I'm talking about MyHeritage's use of "West Asian" vs "Middle Eastern", as opposed to the terms' absolute meaning. The reason why some Levantines get mostly West Asian on MyHeritage is probably related to the reason why Levantines' highest score on FTDNA is "Asia Minor". Likely, the "Middle East" reference on MyHeritage, as the "West Middle East" on FTDNA, isolates the Levant too deep in its history. That is, to a time of Natufians or early Canaanites, before more "West Asian" elements migrated to the Levant. I share some DNA segments with Hittite samples, or at least those labeled as such. I'd like to see if other Levantines also do.

[Ahaddad]

No, Lebanese didn't absorb Sephardic Jews. And Sephardic Jews are about as Levantine as Ashkenazi Jews. You're thinking of some Mizrachi Jews. I'm talking about MyHeritage's use of "West Asian" vs "Middle Eastern", as opposed to the terms' absolute meaning. The reason why some Levantines get mostly West Asian on MyHeritage is probably related to the reason why Levantines' highest score on FTDNA is "Asia Minor". Likely, the "Middle East" reference on MyHeritage, as the "West Middle East" on FTDNA, isolates the Levant too deep in its history. That is, to a time of Natufians or early Canaanites, before more "West Asian" elements migrated to the Levant. I share some DNA segments with Hittite samples, or at least those labeled as such. I'd like to see if other Levantines also do.

Yes I know, what I mean is that many Lebanese tested has % of Sephardic
Jews, I just ask if this maybe this date is mixing of middle eastern, North Africa with some Mediterranean Europe, because Lebanese has this admixture too.


You thing this my heritage admixture is more to Lebanese or to Assyrian ?

[Pine]

Yes I know, what I mean is that many Lebanese tested has % of Sephardic
Jews, I just ask if this maybe this date is mixing of middle eastern, North Africa with some Mediterranean Europe, because Lebanese has this admixture too.

Christian Lebanese barely have anything but Levantine DNA. Some Muslim Lebanese have some European from rape and some Arabian. Lebanese get every single Jewish group in their results: Sephardic, Mizrachi and Ashkenazi. What I think is going on, is it's picking up on 2 things: 1. Ancient Jewish ancestry (pre-diasporic - mutual ancestors of the Jewish groups they get in their results). The first Christians were Jews. And some Assyrian/Syriac families even have oral history of descending from such families. 2. It's mistaking Phoenician ancestry for the Hebrew ancestry in Jews, as the two groups were arguably one group long ago.

However, you may be on to something as far as them trying to match "mixing" of ancient groups to modern groups. Others have noticed that an upload vs an ordered kit will result in the difference between the sub-categories on MyHeritage of North African Sephardic and North African.

You thing this my heritage admixture is more to Lebanese or to Assyrian ?

The Jewish results? According to oral history of the groups - more Assyrian. According to autosomal studies of the two - more Lebanese.

[Ahaddad]

This results is far to Armenians ? Or Azeri and Georgians?