Topic summary
Canarian people
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Canary Islanders.
Autosomal DNA
In addition, a study by Díaz-de Usera et al. 2022 that analyzed 863 donors of all the islands (105 from El Hierro, 93 from La Palma, 141 from La Gomera, 156 from Tenerife, 210 from Gran Canaria, 47 from Fuerteventura, and 111 from Lanzarote) suggested two different results depending on the model used. One of them evaluated the global ancestry of the subjects, indicating an ancestry on an autosomal level of 76,4% European, 20,8% North African, and 2,8% Sub-Saharan. However, when a specific model to evaluate the ancestry of admixed populations was used, this showed that the autosomal DNA of Canarian people is 71,4% European, 26,7% North African, and 1,9% Sub-Saharan, being the highest North African and Sub-Saharan components at an individual level 38,2% and 9,5% respectively.