According to a Y-DNA study by Sims et al. (2007), the majority (~60%) of African Americans belong to various subclades of the E3a (E1b1a) paternal haplogroup. This is the most common genetic paternal lineage found today among West/Central African males, and is also a signature of the historical Bantu migrations. The next most frequent Y-DNA haplogroup observed among African Americans is the R1b clade, which around 15% of African Americans carry. This lineage is most common today among Northwestern European males. The remaining African Americans mainly belong to the paternal haplogroup I (~7%), which is also frequent in Northwestern Europe.
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I have been searching for one of these youtube video where people reveal their DNA results but I can't find one of an African American saying they are R1b or even a picture on the internet.
It seems like most of the "My DNA" results type videos are of females and there may not be a huge amount of these videos yet.
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
Also some R1b in Guinea Bissau--West Africa. Eurocentric researchers always tend to explain the R1b presence in Africa as some kind of fanciful genetic backtracking from Eurasia to Africa.
It makes more sense however to explain the presence of R1b in Europe as a direct offshoot from Africa to Europe. Why? Occam's razor. Humans have been in Africa much longer than anywhere else.
The topic is African Americans who have posted their picture or made videos that carry R1b not " R1b in Africa" If you want to explore that topic please make a separate thread on it or post in this recent Egyptology thread about origins of R1b
Hope this is acceptable to the thread. I mean suggesting AA R1b could be recent African or European. Dunno if the distinction is helpful or not.
Posted by Ish Gebor (Member # 18264) on :
quote:Originally posted by the lioness,: The topic is African Americans who have posted their picture or made videos that carry R1b not " R1b in Africa" If you want to explore that topic please make a separate thread on it or post in this recent Egyptology thread about origins of R1b
From what I have seen these tests don't speak of those details. They speak of "trace regions", where was / is this found most, today.
Posted by the lioness, (Member # 17353) on :
