":::::Actually, ""Eastern Africa"" is of very little relevance in the case of Egyptians because the sub-clades of E1b1b that Egyptians carry (E-M81; the E-M78 depicted in your map & its assorted sub-clades such as V12) all originated in North Africa according to Cruciani et al. 2007, the authority on E1b1b. Still, I can't say I'm surprised that you'd protest that E1b1b is not relevant since it does, after all, have a patently non-Sub-Saharan distribution and evolution. And it is considerably more prevalent in Northern Egyptians than the ""darker-skinned"" (your term, not mine) Southern Egyptians. Something tells me, however, that had the Egyptians predominantly belonged to the Sub-Saharan E1b1a haplogroup, you'd have fought tooth and nail for this little factoid to be included in the article.    

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