Sorry to ask something so completely irrelevant to Somalia, and the Horn in general — I'm just a little bit desperate at this point. I have been trying to figure this out for the longest, and everyone on this sub-forum seems to be very well-versed in African genetics, so as a last resort, I figured this may be a good place to try and gain some clarity. Also, I don't know of any other notable forum or platform that discusses African populations and their genetics, etc.
So, I'm South Sudanese, and on 23AndMe I score 4% West African. With Senegambian and Guinean being the highest percentage, although still super negligible, at 1.3%.
On LivingDNA, I score 19% West African, with my highest to lowest populations being Mende>Mandinka>Esan, in that order. However, it doesn't seem like my G25 coordinates indicate any recent West African ancestry, and when it comes to my 'Genetically Closest Modern Populations', Mandinka from Gambia is the first West African population to appear, but it doesn't even break the Top 30.
Can someone help me make sense of this? Someone once told me that the West African I score is likely due to the Bantu migration... But that sounded pretty insane to me. I don't know, I'm a total layman, I could absolutely be wrong. But yeah, I'm just wondering. Please correct me if there is anything about how any of this works that I've gotten wrong. I've attached some of my results. The 23AndMe attachment with 99.9% SSA is at 80% confidence, and the Senegambian and Guinean still appear, although just at 0.5%. So that makes me think, maybe there is something to it. But I don't know. Thanks so much if you can help!
So, I'm South Sudanese, and on 23AndMe I score 4% West African. With Senegambian and Guinean being the highest percentage, although still super negligible, at 1.3%.
On LivingDNA, I score 19% West African, with my highest to lowest populations being Mende>Mandinka>Esan, in that order. However, it doesn't seem like my G25 coordinates indicate any recent West African ancestry, and when it comes to my 'Genetically Closest Modern Populations', Mandinka from Gambia is the first West African population to appear, but it doesn't even break the Top 30.
Can someone help me make sense of this? Someone once told me that the West African I score is likely due to the Bantu migration... But that sounded pretty insane to me. I don't know, I'm a total layman, I could absolutely be wrong. But yeah, I'm just wondering. Please correct me if there is anything about how any of this works that I've gotten wrong. I've attached some of my results. The 23AndMe attachment with 99.9% SSA is at 80% confidence, and the Senegambian and Guinean still appear, although just at 0.5%. So that makes me think, maybe there is something to it. But I don't know. Thanks so much if you can help!