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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5467792, member: 110504&quot;](Since I can&#039;t figure out how the alleged &#039;Quote&#039; function on this website actually works (at this point --notably after the last four years-- most of my left hemisphere is a smoking crater), this is made with resort to old-fashioned cutting and pasting: )</p><p>&quot;Apparently those &quot;Middle Eastern&quot; alleles are just part of the Sicilian background, which is after all an enormous grab-bag of every civilization that has sailed a boat in the Mediterranean over the last few millennia.&quot;</p><p>I think you nailed it, my friend.</p><p>&quot;And the last 1%, in utter defiance of probability, says &quot;Senegalese&quot;. That is almost certainly wrong, and I have no idea what glitch gives that readout. North African would be fairly plausible, as part of the Sicilian mix, but there just weren&#039;t any significant number of Senegalese folk wandering around Sicily and having children with the locals in 1800.&quot;</p><p>Well, only if you give 23&amp;them more credit than they&#039;re due for having better genetic databases in the first place, or better methodology, than they&#039;re due, as an irreducibly commercial organization.&nbsp; On the basis of your Sicilian descent, it&#039;s easy as Stuff to posit 1% of your descent being from people for whom 23&amp;me has Senegalese as their nearest available equivalent.&nbsp;&nbsp; According to <i>their</i>, <i>Thank </i>you, available genetic database.</p><p>...And what about that Irish, Scottish and English stuff on your grandmother&#039;s side?&nbsp; Sounds like some Colonial-era stuff going on up in there.&nbsp; You never know....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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