Its good to see you back Baracutei, but i think its up in the air whether Haitians in the test would offset the African percentage, being that where part of the same island, and also there are some dominicans who may have ancient haitian ancestry of African origin, or even ancient haitian ancestry of Taino origin. I think that Haitians form the fabric of dominican society and would not change the results of the test at all, now cape verdeans, st. thomans and other recent islanders would make somewhat of a difference as they havent been on the island long.
My own family is a testimony to this, i have two Haitian family lines, surname Mayi and surname Jose. The Jose's in my family look very afroindegenous, with somewhat of a predominance of indegenous, yet they are of Haitian-descent. I dont think Haitian always equals african ancestry, the Mayi's are also a simlar case but i know less about them so i can't make conclusions. This was a great test you did, and i think it proves that the Taino's never died out, the big myth has been put to rest, maybe our Taino Mtdna isn't as high as puertorico's, but our culture is just as influenced. The Autosomal tests will be interesting, i am thinking of taking one myself, although autosomal is rather ever-changing, they seem to be getting more and more accurate.
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