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**Quick$bux** · 03-20-2011, 01:32 AM

Thanks Lemba! But what I also mean is, I don't mean to pry but why does it seem like people only consider SSA as ''African''? (at least when it comes to DNA) Or am I the only one who got that vibe?

OH yes atleast when you talk about North-africans, but East Africans are definetly included with other Sub-saharans. Now North Africans are trickier because they have less recenet admixture from sub-saharan africans. Although its still noteable but not as high as other people. Some North-Africans are highly sub-shaaran while some have much less, but pretty much all North-Africans have some, sometimes its recent from Slave trade and ALOT Of times its ancient from proto-ethiopian sub-saharan peoples who populated north-africa. or other unkown migrations. So due to the isolation of North-Africa and it being a more "mixed" region , in the sense it has more west-eurasian admixture it is categorized differently in dna, where the individuals with the most west asian input are less "sub-saharan" but this is all changing specially with the inclusion of East African samples to run against north africans you can see they have east african admixture as well as west asian.

03-20-2011, 01:32 AM	#8
Quick$bux Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 571 Senior Member	Thanks Lemba! But what I also mean is, I don't mean to pry but why does it seem like people only consider SSA as ''African''? (at least when it comes to DNA) Or am I the only one who got that vibe? OH yes atleast when you talk about North-africans, but East Africans are definetly included with other Sub-saharans. Now North Africans are trickier because they have less recenet admixture from sub-saharan africans. Although its still noteable but not as high as other people. Some North-Africans are highly sub-shaaran while some have much less, but pretty much all North-Africans have some, sometimes its recent from Slave trade and ALOT Of times its ancient from proto-ethiopian sub-saharan peoples who populated north-africa. or other unkown migrations. So due to the isolation of North-Africa and it being a more "mixed" region , in the sense it has more west-eurasian admixture it is categorized differently in dna, where the individuals with the most west asian input are less "sub-saharan" but this is all changing specially with the inclusion of East African samples to run against north africans you can see they have east african admixture as well as west asian.
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