Subsaharian ancestry in Spaniard, noise?

[vivna]

Good morning,

I am a Spaniard who took 23andme DNA test and it appears i have 0'5 subsaharian ancestry. I first thought it was just noice, the thing is my mother took the test and she has 1'1 percent also of Subsaharian ancestry. Would that confirm i maybe have some subsaharian ancestry?

Thanks for your help

 

[AdeoF]

Anything below 2% can possibility be noise amigo it depends on how common it shows up in gedmatch. But hopefully you would get your answer

 

[Tutkun Arnaut]

should not be a surprise if you have it! Spain is in close proximity with North Africa. North Africans are in average 10% Subsaharan

 

[Ruderico]

Good morning,

I am a Spaniard who took 23andme DNA test and it appears i have 0'5 subsaharian ancestry. I first thought it was just noice, the thing is my mother took the test and she has 1'1 percent also of Subsaharian ancestry. Would that confirm i maybe have some subsaharian ancestry?

Thanks for your help

Those levels are not very relevant for 23andme.
Do you have ancestry from Canarias? If not, I wouldn't waste much time with it, some Iberians score noise-levels MENA and SSA in that test. Canarians, however, seem to have inflated (and more recent) North African ancestry which might increase these values

 

[brick]

0,5 is not much

 

[Georgewalley]

I've seen British scoring 0.7 SSA on 23andme and we have to say that anything below 2 percent is highly likely to be noise especially when it doesn't show on other dna tests.