Afrikaner genetics shows how unique New England culture is
There’s a new paper in BMC Biology, Patterns of African and Asian admixture in the Afrikaner population of South Africa, which confirms some of what I found years ago with a much smaller data set, The Genetics Of Afrikaners (Again). The PCA above and Treemix to the right I generated from the data in the […]
Yes I think about 1% of Afrikaner ancestry is probably Khoikhoi
As a follow-up to my previous two posts on Afrikaners, I wanted to reiterate something that I implied/said earlier: yes, I think about 1% of the ancestry of modern day Afrikaners derives from Khoisan pastoralists of the Cape who were resident there when the Europeans first arrived. These people are often called Khoikoi. Unlike the […]
No, Afrikaners do not have British or English ancestry
kan In my post below on the non-European ancestry of Afrikaners, several readers mentioned that friends of Afrikaner background were rather chagrined to have reported British ancestry from genetic tests. The cultural reason for this is well known: many Afrikaners exhibit hostility toward British imperialism due to the deprivation and death which was the consequence […]
The non-European ancestry of Afrikaners
A few years ago I got some South African genotypes. Some of the individuals were clearly African. A few mapped perfectly upon Northern Europeans. But many of the samples consistently were European but shifted toward non-European populations. Based on history of the assimilation of slaves into the European population of Cape Colony in the 18th […]
Update on the Afrikaner genotype
Since my original post on the Afrikaner genotype, I’ve gotten many responses. No genotypes yet though. At some point I need to organize how to pay for typing many individuals. Currently my intent is to pay for those who will allow their identities to be public so that people can confirm their genealogies. Other people […]