Recent content by Alexandros

Can the people who suggest that R1b did not pass through the Eastern Mediterranean/Anatolia/Balkans explain the 30% prevalence of R1b among Armenians? Also, what about the 17% prevalence among Cretans? The argument of relatively recent back-migration from western Europe into these regions does...

Yes indeed autosomal genetics show that Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots are largely indistinguishable genetically. Regarding the rhetorical question that you pose whether Turkish Cypriots are Muslim Greeks or Greek Cypriots are Hellenized Turks, the answer is pretty obvious. It is the former...

I am not sure if this only happens in my geographical region, but the Y-DNA12 (as well as the Y-DNA25) tests are suddenly out of stock from FTDNA's website! All you can find is a reduced price Y-DNA37 test and anything above that! I really hope that this is a marketing strategy for boosting the...

2% Southeast Asian is a tiny fraction that may represent a very very ancient admixture event. May I ask if you also have southwest Asian ancestry as well? Southwest Asian admixture is present in almost all individuals of European ancestry due to (mainly) the Neolithic migrations from the Near...

Regarding the other comments.. yes indeed, even though H is the predominant mtDNA haplogroup among Cypriots, the prevalence of haplogroup K is astonishingly high. I believe this is a result of continuous migrations from 'K-rich' populations during the Neolithic (Levant and Anatolia) and...

Hi Maciamo. Yes of course. Here is what I have from Irwin et al and Cypriot DNA project, combined (total n=166): haplogroup U (N=29) => U1 (n=3), U3 (n=9), U4 (n=6), U5 (n=2), U6 (n=2), U7 (n=3), U8 (n=2), U-unspecified (n=2) haplogroup T (n=12) => T1 (n=2), T2 (n=9), T-unspecified (n=1)...

Dear Maciamo, I appreciate the substantial amount of time you dedicate on creating these great haplogroup distribution maps and I understand how hard it must be to go through all the evidence and get it right for every single region in Europe. I could see from your mt-DNA maps that the data for...

FTDNA has announced their new 'BIG Y' DNA Test, which offers next generation sequencing scan (i.e. full scan) of your Y-chromosome! They accompany this launch with a reduced price, from $695 reduced to $495, if you order before Dec 1st. Of course it is still pretty expensive and we do not know...

@PaschalisB & Dorianfinder Could you please specify which places of Greece you descent from? Your k36 results are somewhat different and both quite interesting. I can see Milos for Dorianfinder. Are all your ancestors from the specific island? Euxaristw!

Thanks for sharing your results. Here are my views: The Dodecad k12b data identify you as a typical Hungarian, with a bit less northern European and a bit more western European admixture than the average. The differences in the southwest Asian admixture are less important than that. The...

@BakodiP Please do not rely on the default Population Finder calculator of FTDNA. It is totally flawed for Eastern Europeans and probably for central Europeans as well. I know that for North-Western Europeans it is working much better. I can use myself as an example. FTDNA labels me as 100%...

@Eldrictch Mainland Greeks are not primarily J2a, they are primarily J2b. Only Cretans and Greek Cypriots are primarily J2a.

This is an interesting hypothesis. What about the archaeogenetics of the Near East? Do we have any data from ancient DNA analyses from samples during that transition era in the Near East? I think this is the only way to prove this theory. The problem is that DNA degrades much faster in the...

Once again great job Maciamo! I will repeat a comment I left on the main maps page. I was wondering which source you used for the Cypriot data. It does not seem to be Irwin et al (2008). The specific study has tested the largest number of Cypriot individuals to date (n=91), even though they...

Thanks to everyone for their comments.. For the people who have some concerns regarding the validity of autosomal calculators, I would say that I do not worry at all about their validity as the methodology used (software, statistical analysis techniques, etc.) is exactly the same as the one...