Angela
Elite member
- Messages
- 21,823
- Reaction score
- 12,329
- Points
- 113
- Ethnic group
- Italian
My distance from all the samples is important, due to my non-European components (15-18% Native American, 2-3% Sub Saharan African). What caught my attention is that although some calculators, with a significant distance (up to 22%), show my affinities with samples from northern Italy, others instead show affinity with samples from southeastern Europe (Romanians, Bulgarians, Thracian Turks) , even with more affinity than the Italian samples. My interpretation (which may be very wrong) is that these peoples show small Eastern Eurasian components, and that some calculators might interpret them as similar to the Native American component.
But such "Western" affinities had never appeared to me, such as Wales or Germany....
I think that's a good hunch. It would be EEF like, plus a Slavic component with some eastern affinities or some ancestry from peoples like the Bulgars, or an Ottoman component with some Central Asian affinity.