Quote from: Lion Babe on January 18, 2016, 12:46:21 PM
Which one of those things did you use to get those results?
I used Ethiohelix for the one in the original post.
and Dodecad Africa 9 as well, a separate test that returned another 6% for "San" results.
I like to run more than one test to confirm consistency. And it's definitely there.
QuoteEurope 11.19%
NW_Africa 7.65%
SW_Asia 4.12%
E_Africa 5.02%
S_Africa 10.88%
Mbuti -
W_Africa 53.30%
Biaka 1.70%
San 6.15%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_peopleAncestryDNA also originally gave me a huge chunk of central + southeast African results, but not as broken down (general areas of Congo + SE Bantu). They definitely told me which regions to pay attention to, though. My African results are very unusual for an AA who takes AncestryDNA test.
1) Usually, the African breakdown in AncestryDNA is more evenly spread out for AA's, and are usually primarily comprised of West African countries, with Central and South Africa thrown in here and there. (Example: Nigeria 19% Senegal 20% GHana 17% Cameroon/Congo 16%). My results started with a HUGE heaping and concentration of GHana/Ivory coast at 36%, then went to Central and South Africa.
2) Considering the fact that most of our ancestors were snatched from West Africa countries into slavery, it's not very often that "SouthEastern Bantu" pops up for us. Especially as such as huge part of the makeup (within the top 3 results).
I scored higher in this region than 90% of 350 AA's who took the AncestryDNA test and participated in a study regarding African ancestry by sharing their results.
(See chart here:
http://ancestryforums.custhelp.com/files/6968bde2b7/Stats_%28AA%3D350%29a.jpg The average was 6% of African makeup, I scored nearly 3 times the amount at 16% of my African makeup. )

Not only did SE Bantu appear, but it smoothly meshes with "Cameroon Congo".
Here is a map of Central/East/South Africa:
AncestryDNA's definition of "Congo/Cameroon" includes:Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Republic of Congo (also found in Angola, Chad)
AncestryDNA's definition of "Southeastern Bantu" includes:South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda
My results from the test smoothly COLLIDE with one another. All these countries are right next door, just like my results are. Usually, AA results are all over the place tbh.
My results are are an almost even split between West Africa (36%) and Central/Southeast Africa (18 + 13 = 31%) .