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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nodnarb: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by BlessedbyHorus: [qb] I don't know why some keep saying not to take the "MLI" scores of the Amarnas "literally." When in fact I hear many people say that the Amarna dynasty was originally from Nubia.[/qb][/QUOTE]Where did you hear that the Amarna family would have come from outside of Egypt? When people say that we shouldn't take the MLI scores literally, they mean we shouldn't infer from the MLI rankings that ancient Egyptians were literally most closely related to populations in DNA Tribes' Great Lakes or Southern Africa regions, like some others have been doing. And I'm pretty sure you don't really believe that. Personally, I believe the most important takeaway from the DNA Tribes papers is simply that these mummies were African. Keep in mind that their algorithm was processing relatively low-resolution (8 STR markers) data, and while I have seen studies determining broad continental affinity with even lower resolutions than that (e.g. [URL=http://bmcgenet.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2156-6-47]this one[/URL]), that's probably all you are going to get at that resolution level. Add to that how MLI scores are defined by DNA Tribes itself (i.e. the likelihood that a given genetic profile will be found in a given region relative to a "generic" population of totally mixed individuals), and what you get is that these ancient Egyptians' genetic profiles fit more snugly within the African continent than OOA. So you can infer from the MLI scores that the tested mummies are broadly African in ancestry, but not necessarily anything more specific than that. That Great Lakes and Southern Africa seem to rank higher in the MLI scores table than other African regions is probably an artifact of those regions being more "purely" African (and therefore more representative of the whole continent at a lower resolution) than regions with more Eurasian admixture. At least that is how I assess it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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