How much European ancestry do Maronites have?

[Noah Pritchett]

Eline don't worry. I don't know how to use this site either XD

[happycow]

0%

[pompandy]

They are around 1/4 Greek.
Source?
"Beirut_IA included individuals from the Iron Age II and Iron Age III periods and can be modeled as a mixture of the local Bronze Age population and a population related to ancient Anatolians or ancient South-Eastern Europeans."

"We found that significant genetic changes that were marked by an increase in Eurasian ancestry related to ancient Europeans and ancient Central Asians occurred after the Bronze Age and starting from the Iron Age II (Figure S7A). We did not observe significant genetic differences between the Iron Age II and Iron Age III populations in this test (Figure S7), and thus, we merged our samples from these two periods into one population (Figure S7C) and used qpAdm (see Supplemental Methods) to explore possible Iron Age admixture models (Tables 2 and S7). We found that the Lebanese Iron Age population can be modeled as a mixture of the local Bronze Age population (63%–88%) and a population related to ancient Anatolians or ancient South-Eastern Europeans (12%–37%) (Table 2 and Figure 2.... showed that a Steppe-like ancestry, typically found in Europeans, appears in the Near East starting from the Iron Age II (Figure 2D). A potential source of this exogenous ancestry could be the Sea Peoples, a seafaring group of people with a disputed origin who attacked the Eastern Mediterranean and Egypt after the Bronze Age (1200–900 BCE). One of our successful models for admixture involved an ancestry source related to the Ashkelon (a city situated ∼170 miles south of the Beirut sites) Iron Age I population, which was previously identified as possibly descending from Sea-Peoples-related admixture."

Ironically this blood comes before the Greek and Roman conquests of the Levant.

[Hasien]

Maronites are 0% European—in my DNA test, I got 100% Levantine.

You look very Greek to me and also beautiful cheers my friend.