Somali guy discovers that he is half-Ethiopian and less than 10% Somali.
- Thread starter AhmedAdde
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somalis that have a significant amount of arab ancestry show up as ethiopian admixed on these dna companies due to them not being able to tell the difference between a somali with recent arab ancestry and a habesha who are cushitic with recent semitic ancestry, if these dna companies had a more advanced algorithm they'd be able to make the distinction
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If he had that level of "Ethiopian" on 23andme I'd buy it but yeah, this is suspect. But in all seriousness, folks underestimate how much Ethiopian influences are in even non-Galbeed Somalis. I would say by far the most common non-Somali ancestral elements I've seen pop up on Somali commercial tests (going off 23andme, G25 and qpAdm) are Highland Ethiopian elements rather "Arab" or whatever else.
