Druze raw dna 23andme format

The Druze are a unique ethnoreligious group primarily found in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, with smaller communities in Jordan and diaspora populations in the Americas and Europe.

The Druze have their own religion which combines elements of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. They tend to get along with their neighbors although they have faced persecution from fundamentalist religious terrorist groups in Syria.

For this video, I gathered the raw DNA of 9 ethnic Druze from the human origins dataset. I ran them through my Trait Predictor tool for DNA analysis as well as qpAdmixture to determine their ethnic breakdown.

First, let’s discuss the qpAdm results.

The first model I made, which barely passes, finds 7.9 percent Sub-Saharan African ancestry in Druze, the remainder being Eurasian. The largest component they scored was Anatolian Hunter-Gatherer, which is a precursor to Anatolian Neolithic farmer.

I made another model to determine whether the Druze have European ancestry, and it turns out they do - approximately 10 percent of Druze ancestry traces back to a European-like source while the rest of their ancestry resembles Iron Age Israelites.

I ran Fst analysis on the Druze, which showed their closest ethnicity are Armenians, followed by the Lebanese and Greeks. It is interesting how distant they ended up from Saudis, being closer even to Croatians than to Saudis. I made another qpAdm run to determine whether or not they have any Yamnaya ancestry, which would confirm a partially European origin, and indeed they scored 10.7% Yamnaya with a Z score of 7.96, which means we can reliably say that they had around 11 percent Yamnaya ancestry.