I took a DNA test and my earliest ancestry is from the Middle East and Iberian peninsula. (2% West Asian here.) This was a coincidence as I was already into Mesopotamia and the ANE.
1% is Levant, Israel, Syria etc area and the other 1% is from Iraq, Iran, and that area showing migration patterns. The other 1% is from Iberian peninsula from the other side of North Africa, near Spain.
My ancestors skipped Southern Europe all together and the rest of my DNA is from Western Europe and Northern Europe.
I was perplexed by this. Why does my DNA hit on the other side of North Africa? Why didn't my ancestors mingle with anyone in Southern Europe? Later I found out a Carthaginian colony was in that area in the Iberian.
My not so academic hypothesis to this is that my ancestors must have been Carthaginian which directly relates them to the Phoenicians. Since Carthaginians aren't fond of Greece and especially Rome, being historically at each other's throats... Instead of mingling, they left for Northern Europe to get away from Rome which is why the next lowest percentage is 4% Irish. (Romans never made it there.) But there is no way to prove it.
Honestly happy to have a genetic connection to Mesopotamia myself.