West Eurasian admixture in Khoe-San via East Africa

[J Man]

I hope this has not been posted here anywhere yet. This looks to be a very interesting new study. Both Dienekes and Razib have posted a bit about it.

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/west-eurasian-admixture-in-khoe-san-via.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2013/07/reconstructing-genetic-ripples-in-time-and-space/

[lgmayka]

The study reminds me of the Lemba tribe of southern Africa, which has substantial amounts of yDNA haplogroups J and T (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemba_people#DNA_testing) as well as a tradition of Middle Eastern origins.

[J Man]

^Yes it is starting to look like many native Africans have some degree of West Eurasian admixture in their genomes.

[Awale]

Heh, I actually made a blog post about this and connected the findings in Pickrell's study to a linguistics paper my broski Agamemnon showed me a while back (even showed Pickrell himself the paper):

The Savanna Pastoral Neolithic: A Cushitic Culture that genetically influenced various Southern Africans (http://anthromadness.blogspot.ae/2015/07/the-savanna-pastoral-neolithic-cushitic.html)

[AJL]

Just a note, since this has been bumped, that this subject has been touched on by a recent study:

http://www.anthrogenica.com/showthread.php?5577-4500-year-old-Ethiopian-Y-DNA-E1b1-mtDNA-L3-and-considerable-Eurasian-admixture