Your mother has a smaller percentage of sub-Saharan African DNA, with 0.5 percent identified as West African and 0.1 percent as unassigned sub-Saharan.

I had my parents tested, and the same segment shows on my mother’s DNA, except hers is about twice as large, roughly 15-17 cM (she also had a couple of other smaller segments that were African).

The first large-scale study of ancient human DNA from sub-Saharan Africa opens a long-awaited window into the identity of prehistoric populations in the region and how they moved around and ...

DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of female herders from a time when the Sahara was more humid and known as the Green Sahara, did not show the expected Sub-Saharan genes.

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.

All of her grandparents were California pioneers, and she carried around three per cent of sub-Saharan African DNA," he said. "We are all related." ...

Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year-old Saharan mummies By Katie Hunt, CNN 5 minute read ... because we have pottery coming from sub-Saharan Africa.

Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year-old Saharan mummies By Katie Hunt, CNN 5 minute read ... because we have pottery coming from sub-Saharan Africa.

Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year ... suggested the region likely wasn’t a migration corridor that linked sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Africa despite the Sahara’s ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but 7,000 years ago, this region of the Sahara Desert ...