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As for admixture, Druze people show closeness to other Levantine, Anatolian, Cypriot, Armenian, Samaritan, Kurdish, Persian as well as Peoples of the Caucasus. ... The vast majority of the Druze people assert Arab ancestry -being entirely an ...

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Reconstructing Druze population history | Scientific Reports

November 16, 2016 - The mixed Near Eastern–Middle Eastern localisation of the Druze, shown using both modern and ancient DNA data, is distinct from that of neighbouring Syrians, Palestinians and most of the Lebanese, who exhibit a high affinity to the Levant. Druze biogeographic affinity, migration patterns, time of emergence and genetic similarity to Near Eastern populations are highly suggestive of Armenian-Turkish ancestries for the proto-Druze.

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Solving the 1,000-year-old mystery of Druze origin with a genetic sat nav

September 29, 2025 - This was discovered by applying our GPS tool to the genomes of over 150 Druze, along with Palestinians, Bedouins, Syrians and Lebanese to compare their ancestral origins.

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Solving the mystery of the Druze – a 2,000-year-old odyssey | Aeon Ideas

April 8, 2021 - Unlike Palestinians, Bedouins and Syrians who share between 36-70 per cent of ancient Levantine ancestry, the Israeli Druze have only a minor Levantine component of 15 per cent and a significantly higher (80 per cent) ancient Armenian ancestry.

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Genetics Confirm Oral Traditions Of Druze In Israel | ScienceDaily

3 days ago - The Druze harbor a remarkable diversity of mitochondrial DNA types or lineages that appear to have separated from each other many thousands of years ago, according to a new study by multinational team.

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Genetic research claims to trace mysterious origins of Israel's Druze | The Times of Israel

November 25, 2016 - Elhaik says the technique “works ... finding ancestry instead. ... The method involves recreating ancient gene pools from around the world, then comparing individuals’ genetic fingerprints to find a corresponding population. By analyzing the DNA of Israeli Druze and testing ...

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Genotyping of geographically diverse Druze trios reveals substructure and a recent bottleneck - PMC

In this study, we describe genotyping of 40 Druze trios from the Galilee and the Golan Druze communities, selected to maximize representation of different Druze ancestries. Data analysis confirmed the Middle-Eastern origins of the Druze and their distinction from other regional populations.

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Was our Y ancestor a Druze? - Journals of a Time Traveller

Within hours of publishing my most recent hypothesis: Was our ancestor a Baloch Lascar, I receive news of an incredible rare event. Someone else on the FTDNA Big Y tested to Y Haplogroup L L-SK1414 (L1b2c). The sample belonged to a Druze genetics project, and was taken from a man from the Druze town of Zaroun (Matn District) in Lebanon.

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Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of Druze Provides Insights into Carrier Screening - PMC

These healthy participants were recruited from the Druze communities in Beit Jan located in the Northern Galilee in Israel (20 trios) and in the Golan Heights (20 trios), primarily the village of Majdal Shams. Clan ancestral roots were based on family names and repress ented the origins of ...

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3 weeks ago - Most of them trace their ancestry back to Lebanon and Syria. More than 200,000 people from the Suwayda area hold Venezuelan citizenship, the majority of whom belong to the Syria's Druze sect ...

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There are no druze in palestine. They live in Israel and they serve in the israeli military

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The results of these tests + the Tannukh narrative aren’t mutually exclusive, to some extent. Arab tribes – like all other nomadic groups – absorbed often very large amounts of external/neighboring elements during their migration, nomadization and later settlement. This process sometimes lasted for centuries, with tribal identities softening, disappearing or, on the opposite, resurfacing according to economic, political or military factors. Between nomadic late Antiquity and sedentarization in Fatimid times, this give enough time for an eventual Tannukhid clan to have absorbed very large quantities of Levantine natives, absorbing Aramean pastoralists or even agriculturalists. There is also probably the role of what is called “elite dominance” where a population adopts the tribal narrative, language and genealogy (real or invented) of a key minority, no matter how small, with strong political, military or economic power. One striking example of this phenomenon is the fact that many Hispano-Roman, Christian natives of the Iberian Peninsula adopted Hijazi or Yemeni lineages and tribal affiliations when converting to Islam in the Al Andalus period. In a context of prestige and dominance being given to Arabs and Arab descent, many of the mountain dwellers (that were probably arabizing linguistically/culturally as they transitioned from archaic Christianity mixed with pre-Christian beliefs to various forms of Shia Ismailism) adopted various tales of descent/tribal ancestry as time went by, especially for the elites in a cultural context where genealogies mattered. It is not impossible to imagine the genealogical affiliations or tales of some powerful families or clans being endorsed by a much larger number of unrelated people. For the same reason, many Christian communities, especially Orthodox, claimed descent from Roman and Byzantine-era Arab migrations to the Levant, despite this layer representing a minimal to very narrow fraction of their overall ancestry. Those claims resurfaced at the very end of the Ottoman era, when Arab nationalism was a growing force. Those claims were useful to balance the concurrence of pan-Islamism, etc. For Druze, Ismailis and Alawites as well, claiming Arab tribal ancestry was also a tool to mitigate/balance their heterodox/non-Sunni creed in periods in which Sunni imperial dynasties were strong, and behaving, to remain diplomatic, in a variety of ways toward local non-Sunni communities.

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Druze Y-DNA Project - DNA Results - FamilyTreeDNA

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NCBI

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The Druze: A Population Genetic Refugium of the Near East - PMC

An attractive hypothesis to explain this geographic concentration of lineages which diverged remotely within an ancient haplogroup (and which are not identified in other populations of the region) is that these Galilee Druze individuals represent the refugium of an ancestral group with high diversity and high frequency of haplogroup X, which was more prevalent in the region in antiquity, and from which the global diversity of X mtDNA haplogroup emerged.

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r/druze on Reddit: Paternal Origins of the Druze people

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Hey everyone I was really interested in the origins of the Druze people after I found out I was related to the Daou, Daoud & Abu/Abou Dargham family paternally within the time frame of the 2200-3000 years (I’m Jewish), I deep dived into the genetic Haplogroups publicly available of 377 Druze people and the origins are a striking mix of Phoenician, Canaanite, Jewish-Israelite, Caucus, Roman, Arab, Persian and Indian origins etc Below I’ll list every haplogroup and their proposed origin

Haplogroup E1a

E1a 5/377 = 1.32% 100% of Jewish origin

E1b Y21919 6/377 = Branch starts at 4400 years Ashkenazi matches most likely of Jewish origin Avotaynu AB-004 E-Y32552

https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-FGC2188/

E1b BY3880 3/377 Italian/Roman or Greek origin

E1b BY34237 7/377 Probably Italian/Roman origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-BY14160/

E1b BY44872 3/377 Unclear if of Jewish origin but most likely not Seems to be Arabic in origin

E1b CTS6080 4/377 Same as above

https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-V22/

E1b FT1910 1/377 Seems to be of Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-FT1910/

E1b FT166701 1/377 Seems to be of Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-FT137267/

E1b FGC62854 10/377 Seems to be Canaanite https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-FGC62855/

E1b E-Y20808 1/377 Seems to be Arab or Canaanite https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-Y20808*/

E1b PH2121 22/377 Seems to be arab or Canaanite https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-PH2121/

E1b FGC64007 1/377 Seems to be arab or Canaanite https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-FGC64000/

E1b Z21421 11/377 Possibly Jewish https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-Y18353/

E1b BY36881 1/377 Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-BY36881/

E1b E-Y40386 1/377 Canaanite origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-Y40386/

E1b FGC62257 5/377 Syrian or Canaanite origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-FGC62257/

E1b E-MZ150 A2227 5/377 100% of Jewish origin shared with North Africans https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-A2227/ https://jewishdna.net/AB-189.html

E1b mz143 3/377 100% of Jewish origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-MZ150/ https://jewishdna.net/AB-189.html

E1b z5009 1/377 Phoenician or Berber questionable wether Jewish in origin https://www.familytreedna.com/public/IberianSurnamesofAshkenaz?iframe=yresults

https://jewishdna.net/Jewish_locations_in_Morocco.html

https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-Z5009/

E1b E-BY9656 1/377 Phoenician or Berber questionable wether Jewish in origin https://www.familytreedna.com/public/IberianSurnamesofAshkenaz?iframe=yresults

https://jewishdna.net/Jewish_locations_in_Morocco.html

https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-BY9656/

E1b FGC61964 2/377 Looks to be of Berber or West African Sub Saharan origin most likely via Phoenicians but no other matches hard to tell https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-FGC61964/

Haplogroup G1a

G1a FT1086 2/377 Seems to be of Caucus or Turkic origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/G-FT1086/

Haplogroup G2a

G2a Z6028 2/377 100% of Jewish descent, Ashkenazi downstream https://www.yfull.com/tree/G-Z6028/

G2a FT45116 1/377 Likely of Caucus origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/G-FT45116*/

G2a BY201212 1/377 Likely of Caucus origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/G-Z42373/

G2a Z39513 1/377 Likely of Caucus origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/G-Z39513/

G2a Z30814 1/377 Italian or Arabian origin https://www.yfull.com/arch-5.03/tree/G-Z6029/

G2a FT203426 1/377 Likely of Italian origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/G-Y140837/

G2a Y85585 3/377 Likely of Arab or Balkan descent https://www.yfull.com/tree/G-Z36525/

G2a Z25119 1/377 Could be Jewish Italian or Arab https://www.yfull.com/tree/G-PF3345/

Haplogroup H

H Y25776 10/377 Seems to be of Indian/Pakistani/Kalash origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/H-Y25776/

Haplogroup i

I BY77888 3/377 Seems to be of Western European origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/I-BY57564/

Haplogroup J1a

J1a FT55682 5/377 Italian or Arab in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-ZS9084/

J1a FT42822 2/377 Probbably arab origin no subclade https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y10887/

J1a FGC10591 3/377 Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/arch-4.06/tree/J-FGC10591/

J1a ZS8321 3/377 Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-ZS8321/

J1a FGC8812 3/377 Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-FGC8812/

J1a FGC8806 7/377 Syriac or Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-FGC8806/

J1a FGC8810 2/377 Syriac or Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-FGC8810/

J1a FT41268 1/377 Syriac or Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-FT41268/

J1a ZS4694 & ZS10703 8/377 Syriac or Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-ZS4694/

J1a CTS2572 1/377 One Sephardi branch but seems to be Phoenician or Greco-Italian in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-L829/ https://jewishdna.net/AB-350.html

J1a CTS2572 1/377 One Sephardi branch but seems to be Phoenician or Greco-Italian in origin https://jewishdna.net/AB-350.html https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-PF4878/

J1a FT41076 2/377 100% of Jewish or Canaanite-Phoenician descent shared with Ashkenazi 4000 ybp https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Z18216/ https://jewishdna.net/AB-031.html

J1a FGC8223 2/377 100% of Jewish or Canaanite-Phoenician descent shared with Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahi and Judeo tat’s/Bukharim/Mountain Jews https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y3441/

J1a FGC8216 1/377 100% of Jewish or Canaanite-Phoenician descent shared with Ashkenazim https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-FGC8216/

J1a BY37576 2/377 Arab in Origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y91969/

J1a FGC62618 2/377 Canaanite or Greek in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-FGC62621/

J1a Y31147 7/377 Canaanite or Greek or Caucus in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y23173/

J1a FT18813 1/377 Subclade undetermined 1 judeo tat clade could be jewish https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Z1853/

J1a ZS4452 2/377 100% of Jewish origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-ZS4452/

J1a CTS1460 2/377 Most likely Caucus origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-CTS1460/

J1a FT67143 3/377 Probably Caucus in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y147362/

Haplogroup J2a

J2a BY37902 4/377 Could be of Jewish or Canaanite origin https://www.yfull.com/arch-6.06/tree/J-Z467/

J2a Y44916 1/377 Could be Arab, Mesopotamian or Italian https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y44916/

J2a Y38801 1/377 100% of Jewish origin, matches Bukharian, Mizrahi and Sephardim https://jewishdna.net/J2a.html https://jewishdna.net/AB-646.html https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y5007/

J2a Y5500 18/377 100% of Jewish origin, matches Bukharian, Mizrahi and Sephardim https://jewishdna.net/J2a.html https://jewishdna.net/AB-646.html https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y5178/

J2a Y71930 2/377 100% of Jewish origin, matches Bukharian, Mizrahi and Sephardim https://jewishdna.net/J2a.html https://jewishdna.net/AB-646.html https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y5178/

J2a S18910 1/377 Arab origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-S18910/

J2a Y31165 12/377 Indian or Canaanite or Syriac https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Z7509/

J2a BY60232 3/377 Arab or Syriac origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-BY60232/

J2a Y37636 1/377 Probbably Arab or Syriac origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y7687/

J2a BY203078 1/377 Seems to be Western European in origin https://www.yfull.com/arch-5.07/tree/J-PF5348/

J2a FGC35503 1/377 Seems to be Canaanite in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Z387/

J2a FGC63246 1/377 Probably Syriac or Mesopotamian in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-FGC63245/

J2a Z40011 6/377 Origin hard to determine, NOT Jewish https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Z40011/

J2a BY50801 6/377 Origin hard to determine https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y31950/

J2a BY186179 1/377 Origin hard to determine https://www.yfull.com/live/tree/J-Y166866/

J2a Y25793 1/377 Indian or Arab in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y25793/

J2a BY85253 1/377 Origin hard to determine, not Jewish https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y36973/

Haplogroup J2b

J2b FGC64038 3/377 Syriac Christian origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y146401/

J2b FGC61914 1/377 Syriac/Iraqi origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y28235/

Haplogroup L1a

L1a L-BY219123 15/377 Seems to be Canaanite or Mesopotamian https://www.yfull.com/tree/L-SK1437/

L1a Z8032 6/377 Seems to be Indian or Arab in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/L-Z20387/

Haplogroup L1b

L1b M349 & FGC63400 2/377 Seems to be Canaanite or Southern European in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/L-M349/

L1b FGC62980 1/377 Seems to be of Persian Zoroastrian or Indian origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/L-FGC62980/

Haplogroup Q1b

Q1b Y2209 1/377 100% Jewish in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/Q-Y2209/

Q1b Y5185 3/377 Indian, Chinese, Persian, Arab or Caucus origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/Q-Y5185/

Haplogroup R1a

R1a FGC64131 6/377 Most likely Turkish in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-FGC64133/

R1a Y40115 1/377 Most likely Eastern European or Turkish in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-L366/

R1a Y29452 5/377 Indian in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-Y29452/

R1a YP5227 2/377 Arab in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-YP5229/

Haplogroup R1b

R1b FGC63181 & FGC63197 9/377 Italian in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-Y20253/

R1b SK540 1/377 Eastern European in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-SK540/

R1b S25536 & BY186103 6/377 100% Jewish in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-FGC62957/

R1b Z29758 16/377 Italian in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-Z29758/

R1b BY139812 & BY56339 9/377 Russian or Arab in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-Y135345/

R1b V3181 1/377 Arab in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-V3181/

Haplogroup R2a

R2a M9710 1/377 Arab or Mongol in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-V1946/

R2a FGC61453 3/377 Either Uzbek or Jewish in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-FGC61453*/

Haplogroup T

T BY45377 1/377 Arab in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/T-Y144958/

T BY28451 9/377 Jewish in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/T-CTS2214/

T Z709 1/377 Probably Jewish matches Sephardic and Iraqi Jews https://www.yfull.com/tree/T-Z709/

T BY30174 2/377 Jewish, found in ancient Israel I2201 - Abel Beth Maacah T-CTS6280 (T1a) X2b 2889 Israel - Abel I https://www.yfull.com/tree/T-CTS6280/

T FT63959 2/377 Could be Jewish but Probably not Possible branch below https://www.yfull.com/tree/T-Y102466/

T FGC63797 3/377 Caucus or Persian in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/T-FGC63786/

T BY86756 1/377 Probably arab in origin https://www.yfull.com/tree/T-Y3781/