#coptic genetics

THE PATHETIC RESEARCH ON THE COPTIC GENOME – AN INDICTMENT OF THE POPULATION GENETICISTS AND GENETIC ANTHROPOLOGISTS

In a previous article, Why Can’t Researchers Study the Genetic Structure of the Copts as a Distinct Racial and Ethnic Group in Egypt? (July 31, 2020), I expressed the Copts’ frustration at the paucity of studies on the Coptic genome. Today, I would like to list the very few genetic studies that touched the Copts as a distinct ethnic and racial group.

There are only three studies that studied the…

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT ON THE EGYPTIAN GENETIC MAKE-UP – PART IV: A CRITIQUE OF THE GP’S FINDINGS ON EGYPT

YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO READ PART I, PART II AND PART III OF THIS SERIES

Coptic woman (fragment of Coptic woollen tapestry, 3rd-4th c.)

In Part I, Part II and Part III of this series, I talked about how the Egyptian media misunderstood and misinterpreted the Genographic Project’s results on Egypt, the need to know about the project and the science behind it in order to understand its…

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT ON THE EGYPTIAN GENETIC MAKE-UP – PART III: THE EGYPTIAN RESULTS

IN THE NEXT PART, PART IV, I SHALL PRESENT A CRITIQUE ABOUT THE GP’S FINDINGS ON EGYPT

YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO READ PART I AND PART II OF THIS SERIES

In Part I and Part II of this series, I spoke about how the Egyptian media misunderstood and misinterpreted the Genographic Project’s results on Egypt and said that to understand the results one has to know about the project and the science…

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT ON THE EGYPTIAN GENETIC MAKE-UP – PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE PROJECT

IN THE NEXT PART, PART III, I SHALL TALK ABOUT THE EGYPTIAN RESULTS AND PRESENT A CRITIQUE

Map showing the male migration routes based on the Y chromosome study of 10,000 indigenous individuals from all over the world (Adam in genetics is a designation given to the common ancestor from which all Y chromosomes descended)[1]

  In Part I of this series, The National Geographic Genographic Project…

PRESENT-DAY EGYPTIANS ARE GENETICALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS – AN IMPORTANT RESEARCH REVEALS

One of the researches obtaining a sample from a jaw bone of one of the Egyptian mummies

In 2017 an important study was published in Nature Communications under the title ‘Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods’.[1] Outside Egypt, it received much attention (see, e.g. CNN: DNA discovery reveals genetic history and Independent: Anci…

THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE COPTS AND MUSLIMS OF EGYPT 2: THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE MUSLIMS OF EGYPT SHOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME

In Part 1, we discussed the opposing claims on the matter of the ethnicity of the Copts and Muslims of Egypt, we showed that they were based mainly on political, historical and anthropometric considerations, and we said that only recently have genetics really entered as a tool to decide the debate. Here, in this part, we review an important study that gave us the genetic structure of Muslim…

THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE COPTS AND MUSLIMS OF EGYPT 1: PRELUDE

I start with the presumption that the Copts are the direct descendants of the Ancient Egyptians and their purest representation; and it is not my intention here to either prove or disprove it, though I believe in the accuracy of the statement. This, and the following articles, is about the question: do Muslim Egyptians share the Copts in their genetic structure? In other words, are the Muslims…