Sethgriffi
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Anyone have any insight on being mtdna N1a but yet have 90% autosomal Sub-Saharan African results.
I think i misunderstood the question of the original poster. And yes, i was saying, is it possible to be white and 90% SSA ? If i have a pure african Black father and a pure european White mother, shouldn't i be 50% / 50% autosomally speaking ? or this is completely irrelevent ?^^I don't understand the question.
Do you mean is it possible to be 90% SSA and not "look it"? I doubt it.
When you get to 25 or 30 percent it would depend on the pigmentation snps and facial features, hair features, etc. inherited. It could differ even within a family.
There's a very interesting biography about an intellectual of the sixties named Anatole Broyard, who "passed" for most of his adult life. He was a "colored Creole" from New Orleans by ancestry. When they moved north for work, his parents passed for "white" to get work, but maintained their "black" identity in their private, social lives. He didn't. He denied strenuously that he had African ancestry, up until he was on his death bed.
I don't want to seem to be "judging" him. It was terrible in many ways living as an African-American in those years and even worse before then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_Broyard
This is the book his daughter wrote:
One Drop: My father's hidden life
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/books/review/Johnson-t.html
This is the New Orleans family he left behind. His daughter is in the center, back row.
His sister, interestingly enough, was married to a civil rights leader. She never "outed" him.
If you have a rare line it stands to reason most of your other lines will be something else. My MtDNA J2(a1a1) is only about a 5th of the overall Jasmine lines, most are J1. My father was X2c1. About 3-4% of women in England will have those lines even when you add the totals together. The biggest category of my female ancestors were H1 & H3 followed by U5. Haplogroups are best seen as two snapshots in an album of photographs. My son in law is a Y DNA T1, he is English and shares his haplogroup with Somalians. He is such a rare line even for a rare line he has the symbol for a Unicorn on FtDNA!!!! Maybe look on Eupedia see if there is any information then it's down to researching. Perhaps see if you can narrow that African result down??? MyDNAportal has a test for African ancestry one of the main guys is mixed race and they seem quite nuanced....my European ones are anyway.Anyone have any insight on being mtdna N1a but yet have 90% autosomal Sub-Saharan African results.