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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Old Doctore: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by astenb: [QUOTE]AHHH but see that is the problem. What you are saying is an ASSUMPTION that does not fit well with the data we have NOW. That is plausable last month but NOW we have a game changer. We dont have to guess at it. You are starting for the modern and trying to work your way backwards. There is a southern Egyptian sample in the DNA Tribes data base. There are sudanese samples as well as Somali samples. Take a look at the results from MODERN Dna tribes Egyptians and compare that with what we have now.[/QUOTE]This recent DNAtribes analysis is definitely not a game changer, a step in the right direction... but a game changer? no. This analysis has at the least confirmed earlier predictions, that the Ancient Egyptians were in large part African and possessed ancestry similar to groups in Saharo-Tropical Africa. There are various modern Egyptian samples available on the net, Henn et al. 2010 for example (Delta Egyptians and one individual from Minya), which are very important in better understanding the biological regional affinities of the Ancient Egyptians, especially in reference to their African ancestry. Such African ancestry is predominantly of both Nilotic (possibly Niger-Kordofanian) and NE African origin, and I have no doubt in my mind that the Ancient Egyptians would've been primarily composed of these two aforementioned components. A more detailed study will likely uncover more legitimate regional results. side note: The African component among modern Egyptians is very similar to African populations in the direct vicinity of Egypt, i.e. Chad, Sudan, and the African Horn. [QUOTE] As an exercise it would really be interesting if you take tishkoff Pie graphs and create a specific graph for Modern and Ancient Egypt using those clusters and how you think they would come out..I plan to do this later. I am SURE our results will differ and we can talk about that.[/QUOTE]The Ancient Egyptians, given the results of modern Egyptians and the African populations in the surrounding vicinity, were likely a complex mix of the following clusters (greatest to least) designated by Tishkoff et al. 2009: Cushitic, Chadic Saharan, Nilo-Saharan, Saharan/Dogon, and Niger-Kordofanian. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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