Human Biology Black Americans have Filipino genes!

Black Americans also have a lot of Chinese genes as well since many 19th century Chinese immigrants married Black women. 

she has ancestors from Madagascar

According to data coming in from the wave of genealogical DNA tests over the past several years, there are many. There are so many that the likelihood of the tests being inaccurate is very slim. It might be surprising to many Americans of African descent (both the “black” and “white” ones), but, believe it or not, it falls right in line with historical facts.

Over the course of the trans-Atlantic slave trade people were predominantly brought from the various regions of West Africa. However, there were smaller numbers of people brought from east Africa, including the island of Madagascar.

Madagascar is an interesting place for many reasons - one of which is the ancestry of its people, the Malagasy. It is near the eastern coast of Africa, so of course, the people there are genetically linked to east Africa. But that is only half of their genetic story! The other half, comes from, you guessed it, Southeast Asia.

The Southeast Asian DNA in Madagascar is presumed to come from the island of Borneo, Indonesia given the linguistic similarities between the two locations. The African Americans with Southeast Asian DNA could very well be descendants of the Malagasy. That discovery can be a very important genealogical clue for Americans of African descent, given that there were very few slave ships from Madagascar that entered the 13 colonies or the U.S. legally.

I look forward to studying this further and hopefully coming up with an estimate based off of the data that’s being gathered… unless someone else does it first!