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The African ancestry company writes on their home page about some African Americans having non African paternal lineages.
quote: Very few of us are 100% African. In fact, the average Black person descended from enslaved people has 75% African ancestry and 25% European ancestry. But we can’t always see it and we don’t always know where in the family the mixing occurred.
This explains why there is a possibility of not receiving an African result from one of our tests.
The PatriClan Test has a 35% chance of returning a non-African result. We believe that occurs as a result of White men (slave owners, slave traders and others) fathering sons with enslaved African women. This happened a lot! Those men passed their European ancestry to their African male children.
On the other hand, the probability of receiving a non-African result from a MatriClan Test is much lower. White women were not having Black and brown babies as often as their White male counterparts. So, there is a 92% chance that the MatriClan Test will have an African result.
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That might pertain to Henry Louis Gates but Chris Rock has the very ancient African haplogroup B going back an estimated 100,000 years before the existence of E
Haplogroup B (M60) is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup common to paternal lineages in Africa. It is a primary branch of the haplogroup BT.
"B (M60) is common in parts of Africa, especially the tropical forests of West-Central Africa. It was the ancestral haplogroup of not only modern Pygmies like the Baka and Mbuti, but also Hadzabe from Tanzania, who often have been considered, in large part because of some typological features of their language, to be a remnant of Khoisan people in East Africa."
B-M218 Haplogroup B-M218 has been found in 17% (20/118) of a mixed sample of Nilotic ethnic groups of Karamojong, Jie and Dodos from Karamoja region in Uganda. This haplogroup has also been found by FTDNA in 1 individual from Qatar, 3 individuals from Saudi Arabia,[ 1 individual from Syria, 1 individual from Tunisia, 1 individual from United Kingdom.
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Yes I know that, I just came to think about the "African Ancestry" article when I saw Henry Lous gates Y-DNA haplogroup.
I remember that he has also discussed these issues at some occasions.
quote: In the first series, Gates learned that he has 50% European ancestry and 50% African ancestry. He had known of some European ancestry but was surprised to learn the high proportion; he also learned that he was descended from John Redman, a mulatto veteran in New England of the American Revolutionary War.
Henry Louis Gates Sr, his father, who passed in 2010, age 97
The same Henry Louis Gates Sr above with his wife Pauline Augusta (Coleman) Gates mother of Henry jr.
It's interesting, Henry's Y DNA is Irish according to analysis but his father while light skinned, I would not have guessed Irish. Yet half of Sr.'s DNA comes from his mother
Supposedly this is Gates Jr's great-great grandmother Jane Gates who had been given a house by her former owner, Samuel Brady although genealogists are uncertain
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