Bekada et al. published a new study looking at the Y-chromosomes of 156 Algerian men as well as 240 mitochondrial lineages. This is not much, but the study also provides data from other studies with substantial sample sizes for Morocco (n=760) and Tunisia (n=601).
The results are not very surprising. Haplogroup E1b1b makes up 64% (+6% of other E) of male lineages, similar to Tunisia. J1 is at 21.8%, which is the highest in the Maghreb, while in comparison J2 is a meagre 5%, but also the highest for the Maghreb.
The moderate presence (2.5%) of the Italo-Celtic R1b-U152, which is most probably Roman in this case, is confirmed. This is consistent with the results from the FTDNA Maghreb Project.
Let's note the 2.5% of R1b-U198 + R1b-P312. Too bad they didn't separate the two, because if this is really U198 it would be the first confirmed presence of Germanic R1b in North Africa. I don't understand why they list U198 with P312 instead of U106 though. It must be a mistake.
R1a is at 0.64%, but as we do not know the subclade it is impossible to say if it is Germanic or Middle Eastern. The few R1a tested in the FTDNA Maghreb Project are all R1a-Z93, so Phoenician or Arabic, or possibly Alanic, but definitely not Germanic.
Unfortunately the study uses a very outdated phylogeny for haplogroup I (at least 7 years old !) which does not even have I1. Anyhow, there is no haplogroup I at all in Algeria, not I-M223 in the Maghreb so far, and possibly no I1 either. This would mean that the Vandals were primarily R1b-U106, and may not have carried haplogroup R1a, I1 or I2a2. That would be very surprising considering that they originated in Sweden. Iberia, where the Vandals also settled, also has considerably more Germanic R1b than I or R1a.
On the mtDNA side, haplogroup U4 (1.67%) is the only obvious trace of North European ancestry in Algeria. Other haplogroups would need deeper clade testing.
The results are not very surprising. Haplogroup E1b1b makes up 64% (+6% of other E) of male lineages, similar to Tunisia. J1 is at 21.8%, which is the highest in the Maghreb, while in comparison J2 is a meagre 5%, but also the highest for the Maghreb.
The moderate presence (2.5%) of the Italo-Celtic R1b-U152, which is most probably Roman in this case, is confirmed. This is consistent with the results from the FTDNA Maghreb Project.
Let's note the 2.5% of R1b-U198 + R1b-P312. Too bad they didn't separate the two, because if this is really U198 it would be the first confirmed presence of Germanic R1b in North Africa. I don't understand why they list U198 with P312 instead of U106 though. It must be a mistake.
R1a is at 0.64%, but as we do not know the subclade it is impossible to say if it is Germanic or Middle Eastern. The few R1a tested in the FTDNA Maghreb Project are all R1a-Z93, so Phoenician or Arabic, or possibly Alanic, but definitely not Germanic.
Unfortunately the study uses a very outdated phylogeny for haplogroup I (at least 7 years old !) which does not even have I1. Anyhow, there is no haplogroup I at all in Algeria, not I-M223 in the Maghreb so far, and possibly no I1 either. This would mean that the Vandals were primarily R1b-U106, and may not have carried haplogroup R1a, I1 or I2a2. That would be very surprising considering that they originated in Sweden. Iberia, where the Vandals also settled, also has considerably more Germanic R1b than I or R1a.
On the mtDNA side, haplogroup U4 (1.67%) is the only obvious trace of North European ancestry in Algeria. Other haplogroups would need deeper clade testing.
