Am I Cypriot

21 comments

1. You are one of us now. Come over to receive your halloumi cheese and a free donkey.

2. Are you Turkish Cypriot or Greek Cypriot?

3. That’s what being a Cypriot is about. A bit of everything all of the time. Millennia of conquest and trade do that

4. More Lebanese than Cypriot.

5. These DNA things are weird, I am not even sure if these are even legit.

   I am a Pontic Greek, (born and raised in Cyprus) both from mother’s and from father’s side, and these are my results.

   [https://imgur.com/a/gW2cfxh](https://imgur.com/a/gW2cfxh)

6. Where did you got it from? I thought DNA tests did not have Cyprus as one of the origins

7. It seems we have a new post on genetics every few weeks. To briefly reiterate what I say almost every time:

   1) If you are not of recent mixed ancestry and your ethnic group/local population doesn’t appear on a commercial test, the percentages are borderline meaningless because the algorithm simply tries to use the existing population database to find the mix with the smallest genetic distance from your sample.

   2) If you are mixed, the above still applies unless your composite ancestral populations are all present in those tests.

   3) You can upload your raw data on a free site like GEDmatch and use the admixture tool choosing a specific survey to see which are the closest populations to your sample.

   From your percentages, my guess is that you are either of mixed ancestry with a relatively recent Cypriot ancestor(s), or you have a significant admixture (or sole ancestry) from some population who is close genetically to some extent, but is not present in this test e.g. Druze.

8. You are as Cypriot as it gets!

9. What is this app name

10. Lol when I first did 23andme it had 1% Cypriot for me but then the percentages shifted and that one went away

11. Which test did you take? Because ancestry.com doesn’t even have cyprus registered

12. Είσαι ένας λεβέντης (levant)

13. 13% Discount from toga toga

14. Culture and DNA are different things. We all come from rhe grand soup of humanity and there’s lots of different ingredients.

    Your culture is formed over your life, through your community and experience and is a collective effort in your community.

    My perception may be different, I’m canadian.

    As a canadian I would, in references to other poster, like free cheese, I haven’t been to cyprus in a vouple years and am houlami deprived.

15. Update: I’m excited to hear I get a Donkey, some cheese and a 13% discount also some guy thinks Muslims can’t share DNA with Phoenicians🤔

16. Is cyprus your main place of residence?

    Or if you only care about “cypriot” as an ethnicity… then decide that on your own.

17. Maronites are arab speaking Cypriots that trace their roots in Lebanon if I recall correctly they came to Cyprus in the 10th century. Some come from Kur (if I spell it correctly)and the name of the village Kormakitis comes from the saying “we came here but Kur didn’t come which is Kur ma jit.
    Anyway, Lebanese with some Cypriot ancestry is not unlikely

18. There’s no such thing as a Cypriot ethnicity. That’s total bs. The original Cypriots were Ancient Greeks that settled in the island. Since Arabs, Turks, Venetians, Franks, Brits have been in the island obviously not all Cypriots are going to be 100% Greek.

19. Me with my 5% Cypriot from my Italian side lol. I love halloumi so ig it’s genetic

20. Your body is made of 60% water. Are you water?

21. Sadly not