Do You Know, Yorubas Are Genetically 99.9% Igbo? – See How It Was Proved

A new report has claimed that Yoruba people have same genes as Igbo people.

According to Venturesafrica, there are surprising genetic equality between the two ethnical groups up to 99.9%.

According to this landmark study, there was a 99.9 percent within-population variance, the between-population variance was less than 0.1 percent.

This means that Yorubas, Igbos, Gaa and Akan are 99.9 percent similar, while within each of the groups there are variations/differences between individuals as high as 99 percent i.e. one Igbo may be 99 percent genetically different from another Igbo person, or one Yoruba person to another.

It is important to remember that these groups were not initially split by national borders; prior to the European division of the continent, these ethnic peoples traded, migrated and wedded as the times permitted, allowing apparent regional and national mixtures that remain evident in modern day genetic analyses of some Yoruba and Igbo individuals.

A body does not fight itself. These kinds of research serve as a balm to the much divided heart of the ethnically-concerned West African, and to the African at large: one root, many branches; united by blood if not spirit.