Ancestry DNA Results - Middle Eastern

[mikeeraz]

Hello all! Was wondering what others, particularly Middle Eastern Descent got as their Ancestry DNA results Others are more than welcome to participate as well!

My results were:

53% Middle Eastern
22% Caucasus
21% Italy/Greece
4% European Jewish

My Father's results:
49% Middle Eastern
27% Caucasus
24% Italy/Greece

Paternal Grandmother:
44% Middle Eastern
32% Caucasus
19% Italy/Greece
5% European Jewish

Maternal Grandmother:
53% Middle Eastern
24% Caucasus
22% Italy/Greece
1% European Jewish

Maternal Grandfather:
48% Middle Eastern
28% Italy/Greece
23% Caucasus
1% European Jewish

[Sikeliot]

Italy/Greece is scored because south Italians and Sicilians have Levantine input so the test is picking up the similarity but in the opposite direction.

[Dewsloth]

My mom's Lebanese and my dad is German/British/Ashkenazi:

My results:

Ethnicity Estimate
Europe South 47%
Europe West 19%
Middle East 14%
[Syrian-Lebanese -- this is the only "genetic community" they designated for me; I have no "circles"]
Caucasus 8%
Low Confidence Regions
Ireland/Scotland/Wales 4%
Great Britain 3%
European Jewish 3%
Asia South 1%
Scandinavia 1%

[Don Felipe]

I have done a survey on ANcestryDNA results across the world. Here's a summary of my findings sofar:

[mikeeraz]

Italy/Greece is scored because south Italians and Sicilians have Levantine input so the test is picking up the similarity but in the opposite direction.

That makes sense for sure. I won't be surprised however if we do in fact have some Italian/Greek, as we have had multiple distant cousins appear who were Greek and Greek Cypriot, particularly with my paternal side, while my maternal grandmother has an interesting amount of those with Italian background as her distant cousins. Regardless, we are all neighbours in the area!

[mikeeraz]

My mom's Lebanese and my dad is German/British/Ashkenazi:

My results:

Ethnicity Estimate
Europe South 47%
Europe West 19%
Middle East 14%
[Syrian-Lebanese -- this is the only "genetic community" they designated for me; I have no "circles"]
Caucasus 8%
Low Confidence Regions
Ireland/Scotland/Wales 4%
Great Britain 3%
European Jewish 3%
Asia South 1%
Scandinavia 1%

Very interesting how they picked up the Lebanese component! As you probably guessed, my family and I are all within that genetic community as well, no shocker there!

[Apex n Harmony]

Italy/Greece is scored because south Italians and Sicilians have Levantine input so the test is picking up the similarity but in the opposite direction.

Why wouldn't the Italy/Greece score just appear as "Middle East," if the input is indeed from the Middle East in the first place?

[Sikeliot]

Why wouldn't the Italy/Greece score just appear as "Middle East," if the input is indeed from the Middle East in the first place?

I am unsure, but I notice that people of southern Italian descent score Middle Eastern, and then actual Middle Easterners often score Italian/Greek (which is a component that I believe peaks in central-southern Italy).

[Claudio]

That makes sense for sure. I won't be surprised however if we do in fact have some Italian/Greek, as we have had multiple distant cousins appear who were Greek and Greek Cypriot, particularly with my paternal side, while my maternal grandmother has an interesting amount of those with Italian background as her distant cousins. Regardless, we are all neighbours in the area!

That makes more sense.

[Claudio]

What I would be quite interested to find out going the other way is if the southern italians and Sicilian scoring middle eastern have any distant middle eastern DNA relatives coming up in the relative DNA cousins finders? So if any southern italians or Sicilians who score 20/30% middle eastern are reading this please enlighten us?