Somalis' Specific Mtdna clades

[giire12]

Thats also where I hail from, maybe we’re directly maternally related

That could be possible, maybe also you could be on my 23andme relatives list since we are on the same region my maternal family are from berbera and burco my partenal are from hargeisa

 

[saho_em84]

It’s not rare at all. It’s common among horners, and significant throughout the Middle East


Well it’s very very common for East Africans to share Mtdna with Yemenis apparently. I’ve read somewhere that there was a migration from the Arabian peninsula to the Horn around the Ice Age. Could explain why there’s so much Yemenis and other Arabs branching close to all our non African lineages. But the same is true for our African lineages, meaning we have also had a significant impact on them.

 

[saho_em84]

Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Distinct Evolutionary Histories for Jewish Populations in Yemen and Ethiopia

Mitochondrial DNA reveals distinct evolutionary histories for Jewish populations in Yemen and Ethiopia

Southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa are important geographic centers for the study of human population history because a great deal of migration has characterized these regions since the first emergence of humans out of Africa. Analysis of Jewish

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