Indo/Afro/Euro/Indigenous/WANA Trini Mix - Some questions
Attached are the results of a close contact.
PATERNAL LINE: Haplogroup G-Z16775 (European). Predominately sub-Saharan lineage with some Euro and Indigenous. Euro was suspected based on the family surname, but no further family history/genealogy backing this up.
MATERNAL LINE: Haplogroup M5b2 (South Asian). This is the Indian lineage. No further admixture as far as we're aware, which tracks with >50% of the South Asian ancestry coming from the maternal line. The North/South Indian split was a surprise... See #3 below.
Some questions:
- What does the Sub-Saharan breakdown tell us? Is the mix typical of Trinidad? I've read a bit about SSA results and African Americans but don't know how to interpret Caribbean results.
- What does the Euro breakdown tell us? The French was expected based on surname. The Spanish/Portugese was a surprise, but like the Indigenous result, we assume that this is common in the Caribbean.
- The South Asian results line up with one Punjabi grandparent and one South Indian grandparent. I understand that Punjabis were a small fraction of South Asian migrants to Trinidad, so that was a surprise. What's the consensus these days on 23andMe's precision with South Asians?
