From the Reference I K=17 Admixture results, Simranjit has created more isopleth maps.
Mediterranean component:
Southwest Asian component:
Admixture K=17 maps: Mediterranean and Southwest Asian
Posted by Zack
on March 25, 2011
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bravo!
SW asian peaks in saudis and the bedouins. How closely linked culturally are they?
That's really amazing to visualise and conceptualise them, great stuff S.
I would imagine the Saudis and Bedouins are fairly linked, particularly the Nejdis.
Yes, great work, Simranjits.
Were the Mizrahi Jews included this time? I ask because the SW Asian map appears to capture the Middle East as I would expect it to exist prior to the second half of the 1st millennium CE.
Paul , there isn't a mizrahi jew sample , only Ashkenazim and Sephardi. I didn't include them however.
Many thanks for the reply.
It is interesting to note the Armenians elevated med component as compared to it's neighbours.
You make an interesting point. And it actually goes back to my observation as well. The Armenians, like the Mizrahi Jews, are antique populations.
Populations with K=17 Med values similar to the Armenians:
Armenians 39%
Iraq Jews 39%
Georgia Jews 39%
Italian 39%
I should also add that I do not believe the genetic center of the Armenian genome is best represented by its modern geographical borders. Armenia, for centuries, encompassed massive swaths of the Anatolian lands to the west.
The southwesterm asian component matches marvelously with the afrasan languages dispersal!
the southwestern asian component matches very well with a scenario of afrasan languages from southwestern asia
erratum
"a scenario of afrasan languages' dispersal from southwestern asia"
I think there are some mistakes in the southwestern asian component map.
In dodecad the tested algerians, tunisians and moroccans had more than 20% southwestern asia!
Dodecad and harrapan south west asian components aren't comparable(also they are at different ancestral k's). We also don't have algerians or tunisians in the reference sample. Morrocans are supposed to be inside however i seem to have missed them. I will include them in future maps.