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🇸🇩 Sudan In My DNA 🧬
My genotyped data (represented by the star within the box and indicated by the black arrow) clusters with Central Sudanese groups in the principal component analysis of genome-wide genotyped data from Sudan and South Sudan published by Hollfelder et al. 2017.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was performed using the smartPCA program (v13050) from the EIGENSOFT package (https://github.com/DReichLab/EIG). For this plot, I carefully recommend interpreting my data point (red star) representing the smallest sample size on the PCs.
Population descriptors used above are those originally used in the publication by Hollfelder et al. 2017, and they are based on the self-identified ethnicities of the participants collected during sample and questionnaire data collection.
The legacy of genetics despite its power, is not the only way to identify someone's identity. I believe in documented genealogy and oral history. I was lucky to have been born to parents who were both born in Halfayat Elmilouk, a city in northern Khartoum known for its deep political and cultural hertiage
On a visit to Al Nagaa and Al-Musawwarat as-Sufra, an ancient temple city of the early Meroitic period located in what was historically called the Island of Meroë in northern Sudan.
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