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I wanted to start out by saying that I actually tested with FamilyTreeDNA.. But we don't have our own forum so I'm posting my results here instead..
I am 100% Sicilian and can trace all my ancestry to the small village of Alcara Li Fusi in the Nebrodi Mountains of Northeastern Sicily (to my great-great-great grandparents).
These are my original FamilyTreeDNA results:
Middle East: Bedouin, Bedouin South, Druze, Iranian, Jewish, Mozabite, Palestinian= 53.74% ±17.93%
Europe (Southern European): Sardinian, Tuscan= 46.26% ±17.93%
These are the results from Dr. McDonald's BGA Analysis.
This is the email he sent me:
The program says
Most likely fit is 35.9% (+- 9.1%) Europe (various subcontinents)
and 1.6% (+- 0.9%) Africa (various subcontinents)
and 62.5% (+- 8.9%) Mideast (various subcontinents)
The following are possible population sets and their fractions,
most likely at the top
Tuscan= 0.365 Ethiopia= 0.031 Cypriot= 0.603
Tuscan= 0.365 Ethiopia= 0.031 Cypriot= 0.605
Tuscan= 0.353 Ethiopia= 0.022 Cypriot= 0.625
Tuscan= 0.335 Mandenka= 0.013 Cypriot= 0.652
Tuscan= 0.335 Yoruba= 0.012 Cypriot= 0.653
Tuscan= 0.336 Bantu Ke= 0.013 Cypriot= 0.651
Tuscan= 0.341 Maasai= 0.016 Cypriot= 0.642
Tuscan= 0.335 Bantu So= 0.012 Cypriot= 0.653
Spain= 0.221 Mandenka= 0.009 Cypriot= 0.770
Tuscan= 0.606 San= 0.000 Palestin= 0.394
which in fact is perfectly reasonable given what you say.
Without your saying what you are, I would have confidently
said "some Mediterranean Island". Your spot on the scatter plots
(I see far more of them than I send) is unique ... I've never
seen anything like it. Clearly it is Mediterranean. The reason
that it is unique is that you are from one village. An academic
study using methods identical to what generates the scatter plots
(principal component analysis) found huge differences
in Sicilian village 50 km apart! If I had been forced to guess
which island, I would have said Malta, which would not have been
a bad guess. Both Sicily and Malta end up on the map
(green spot) well to the east of Italy.
According to Dienekes Admixture Analysis I am:
34.8% Mediterranean
27.4% West_Asian
17.2% West_European
11.4% Southwest_Asian
6.6% Northwest_African
1.5% East_European
1.1% East_African
0.2% Neo_African
0% South_Asian
0% Northeast_Asian
0% Southeast_Asian
0% Palaeo_African
This is a pie-chart of my results:
You can see it in his excel spreadsheet online under the tab "individual results." I am DOD804.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...COCa89AJ#gid=3
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