Circassians

I would say that Ossetians are the result of the mingling of previous Scythians and Sarmatians with local populations: I think Y-G is the heritage from the mountainers and that Steppes people had probably a majority of Y-R1a...

I was unprecise:
I would say: not very Sarmatians but Sarmatians's cousins as Alans/Alani that stayed a long time around present day Ossetia and cross with autochtonous people by the fact, according to some scholars
 

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