It's said that North Africans are distinct from Sub-Saharan populations (SSA), and are closer to West Asian and European populations than to Sub-Saharan populations. Modern North Africans over the centuries have mixed with these Sub-Saharan populations though. I wondered how much SSA (Sub-Saharan DNA) ancestry modern North Africans have. I made some models based on academic samples: SSA ancestry in modern-day North Africans ranges from 15% to 36%, the average is 19.5%. I think that genetic studies underestimate SSA in modern North Africans.
What do you think? What do the genetic studies support?
What do you think? What do the genetic studies support?