Recent content by Illyria

What a time to be alive with all these new samples coming in, from Macedonia, Northern Italy, Sicily, etc, so many of them are close in autosomal to Albanians and Northern/Central Italians. We have J2b2, R1b, and E-V13 as far West as Italy, and as far East as Serbia/Bulgaria, as far North as...

Makes perfect sense, Channeled Ware influences entered Albania 1200BC, while J2b2 was already there (rumored MBA J2b sample), and then by the Iron Age they were likely Illyrianized, as Arber take their place a few hundred years later. Bryges were in Mati/Albanoi region, and then several hundred...

A lot of Northern Albanians are closer to Northern/Central Italians than Southern Italians, such as myself. Apulia is the closest southern population to me, other South Italian groups, not as much. This is my Eurogenes K36 similarity map, I haven't done G25 yet but I will soon to compare the...

Y-DNA of Greece and Turkey from 2017, not sure how accurate it is today. It's interesting that J2b is nearly as frequent as J2a in Thessaly, Central Greece/Attica, and Greek Macedonia.

Not quite. The Neolithic Revolution brought the genes for lighter skin to Europe first, then another wave with Indo-Europeans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_skin

:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing: The Proto-Albanian language originated in the mountains, away from the coasts, somewhere along the Jiricek line. J2b2 just so happens to be most frequent, on the nearby mountains straddling this line. Coincidence? I think not. Just because the...

Thought I'd post these here, some J2b2 maps from rrenjet

Wrong, it also included Albania

Frequencies of the main Y-chromosome haplogroups E1b, J2 and R1b and their sub-clades in the 10 analysed Italian population samples. Black sectors in the primary pies are proportional to the frequency of the main haplogroup in each population. Coloured sectors in the secondary pies are...