A 22-year-old Madeirense, who used a laboratory to perform genetic tests to determine the origins of his ancestors, shared the result on the online platform Reddit. Since his family has always lived on the largest island of the archipelago, he was somewhat surprised by its genetic composition indicating a local base (70%), mixed with genes from continental Portugal (13%), North Africa (4%), Canary Islands (3%), Ireland (3%), North Spain (2%), Sc…
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A 22-year-old Madeirense, who used a laboratory to perform genetic tests to determine the origins of his ancestors, shared the result on the online platform Reddit. Since his family has always lived on the largest island of the archipelago, he was somewhat surprised by its genetic composition indicating a local base (70%), mixed with genes from continental Portugal (13%), North Africa (4%), Canary Islands (3%), Ireland (3%), North Spain (2%), Sc…