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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...