FamilyTreeDNA
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Druze Y-DNA Project - Background - FamilyTreeDNA
as well as coastal lines (mostly intensifying subsequent to the Mongol Invasions). It is reasonable to assume that some families belonging to these lineages might have ended up in the mountains, possibly adopting the Druze Faith. • According to the traditional Lebanese historical account, Amir “Ma’an ibn Rabia’a” (“
Nature
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Reconstructing Druze population history | Scientific Reports
November 16, 2016 - Therefore, the exact ancestry of Lebanese cannot be properly deciphered without ancient DNA from the potential ancestral populations, currently unavailable. When combined with historical and anthropological records, our findings allow a cautious ...
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Who are the Druze?
Arab ethnoreligious group of the Levant
Factsheet
Total population 800,000–2,000,000
Founder Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad
Regions with significant populations
Total population 800,000–2,000,000
Founder Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad
Regions with significant populations
Wikipedia
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Druze - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - The Druze Al-Jabal Brigade played a major role in the 2024 Syrian opposition offensives, which toppled the Ba'athists. The Druzite community in Lebanon played an important role in the formation of the modern state of Lebanon, and even though they are a minority they play an important role in the Lebanese political scene.
The Conversation
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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.
NCBI
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Genotyping of geographically diverse Druze trios reveals substructure and a recent bottleneck - PMC
The Lebanese group shared less IBD segments (within the group and with other groups) compared with the Israeli Druze and showed higher heterozygosity (suggesting less consanguinity), but was less diverse in PC space.
Wikipedia
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Lebanese Druze - Wikipedia
3 days ago - The Lebanese Druze (Arabic: دروز لبنان, romanized: durūz lubnān) are an ethnoreligious group constituting about 5.2 percent of the population of Lebanon. They follow the Druze faith, which is an esoteric monotheistic Abrahamic religion originating from the Levant.
Reddit
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r/23andme on Reddit: Druze Lebanese results
September 10, 2023 -
nothing I didn't expect, but the trace ancestry of southern Indian is pretty interesting, though I suppose it's probably just a fluke
Aeon
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Solving the mystery of the Druze – a 2,000-year-old odyssey | Aeon Ideas
April 8, 2021 - Genetic testing is thereby able to determine that the Druze DNA experienced its last major admixture event, where Druze mixed with local Levantines (Syrians), between the early ninth century and the early 12th century.
PLOS
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Genome-Wide Diversity in the Levant Reveals Recent Structuring by Culture | PLOS Genetics
February 28, 2013 - The words Indigenous and native do not appear anywhere in the text. In this work we show that Lebanese Christians, Lebanese Druze, and Jews have been genetically isolated with restricted admixture with neighboring populations.
The Times of Israel
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Genetic research claims to trace mysterious origins of Israel's Druze | The Times of Israel
November 25, 2016 - 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 it against different populations around the Middle East, Elhaik and his colleagues tried to determine the population’s origins.
PubMed Central
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Reconstructing Druze population history - PMC
Therefore, the exact ancestry of Lebanese cannot be properly deciphered without ancient DNA from the potential ancestral populations, currently unavailable. When combined with historical and anthropological records, our findings allow a cautious reconstruction of certain aspects of Druze population ...
Reddit
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Lebanese Druze DNA Test
September 30, 2023 - These results are for my dads cousin. We are from Aley, Mount Lebanon and as you can tell we are also Druze.
MDPI
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Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of Druze Provides Insights into Carrier Screening
April 18, 2023 - HGDP cohort—The HGDP contains 929 DNA samples and WGS data from ethnically diverse individuals, including 40 Druze samples [10]. HGDP DNA samples were Illumina-genome sequenced to an average coverage of 35× (minimum 25×) and reads were mapped to the GRCh38 reference assembly as reported [10]. HGDP Druze study individuals resided in Druze villages in the Carmel and Galilee regions of Israel and not in the Golan Heights.
Wikipedia
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Genetic history of the Middle East - Wikipedia
15 hours ago - In a 2011 genetic study which analyzed the male-line Y-chromosome genetics of the different religious groups of Lebanon, revealed no noticeable or significant genetic differentiation between the Maronites, Greek Orthodox Christians, Greek Catholic Christians, Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, and Druze of the region on the more frequent haplogroups. Major differences between Lebanese groups were found among the less frequent haplogroups.
Reddit
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r/lebanon on Reddit: Lebanese druze of this subreddit do you identify as an Arab?
June 14, 2025 -
I know that Israeli druze really hate being called Arabs there cause the word Arab is associated with Palestinians in Israeli society but I have seen many Syrian druze also saying that they don't like to be called Arabs and rather identify as ethnically as Druze instead of Arabs especially after the recent events in Syria, do Lebanese Druze feel the same?
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As a Lebanese Druze I can proudly say that I consider myself an Arab. Druze have existed in Lebanon ever since Lebanon was nothing more than Mount Lebanon and I will not fall to any kind of western propaganda that satanizes the Arab root. I am proud of my roots. I strongly condemn what is happening to the Druze in Syria but equally condemn the Druze that are falling to the false belief that Israel gives a shit about their well being.
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Yea we’re Arab and identify as such. Syrian and Jordanian Druze would also identify as Arab. So did Palestinian Druze prior to Israel (and many still do). I think there’s a lot of history that is forgotten here. Lebanon was a bastion of pan-Arab thought prior to the civil war and Lebanese Druze were on forefront of this movement spearheaded by Kamal Jumblatt. Most Druze wanted to join the newly created UAR and be part of Nassers pan Arab project. Historically Druze were simply seen and saw themselves as an Arab Muslim sect within the Ottoman Empire, and we continue to see that even today politically although culturally there has been a growing rift exacerbated through the sectarian system. Throughout the resistance against the Ottoman Empire Druze fought with other Arabs for independence for an Arab state. And again against French colonialism especially in Syria and Lebanon. In fact most of the resistance against the French in Syria was begun by the Druze and their Bedouin allies. So yes in short Druze are Arabs, if you talk to our sheikhs most will claim that we are descended from Arabs who came from the peninsula (most are not but there is evidence some are) which is why we speak with the original 9af. This isn’t my own knowledge but mostly sourced from Fawwaz Trabulsi and Sami Makarem’s books
Nature
nature.com › european journal of human genetics › articles › article
Genotyping of geographically diverse Druze trios reveals substructure and a recent bottleneck | European Journal of Human Genetics
November 5, 2014 - The Lebanese group shared less IBD segments (within the group and with other groups) compared with the Israeli Druze and showed higher heterozygosity (suggesting less consanguinity), but was less diverse in PC space.
PubMed
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Reconstructing Druze population history - PubMed
November 16, 2016 - A map depicting the GPS predicted locations for Druze (A1), Syrians (B1), Palestinians (C1), Lebanese (D1) and Bedouins (E1). The paternal and maternal haplogroups (e.g., mtDNA haplogroup H) of each population are shown at the top of the figures and listed in the legend.
ScienceDirect
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Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Lebanon Is Structured by Recent Historical Events - ScienceDirect
March 27, 2008 - In the present study, 926 Lebanese men were typed with Y-chromosomal SNP and STR markers, and unusually, male genetic variation within Lebanon was found to be more strongly structured by religious affiliation than by geography.
Quora
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Who are the Druze people descended from? - Quora
Answer (1 of 5): They have in the past stated that they had origins from the Yemen area, but it’s more like their ancestry traces to upper Mesopatamia, through Turkey and the Caucuses region.