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We noted 28 different mitochondrial haplotypes and 9 different Y-DNA haplotypes
This is from 25 males and 10 females.
Supplementary table 1 where these will be shown isn't available yet. Any guesses as to the 9 types? Obviously the hunter/gather I2 and the farmer G2a should be there. What else? I'm a bit surprised to see 9 different Y haplos represented in a pre-steppe European pop. Nine of the males had the same Y haplo. I'm going to guess these 9 are G2a.
As for the mito - that's also a very high group of unique lines in one sample area. 28????? very surprising.
Page 7 has skin/hair pigmentation info, appears mixed with 14/42 with dark hair/skin. Three of them had heterozygous SNPs at those locations. Three were blue eyed/light, 7 were brown eyed, and 8 were heterozygous.
Autosomally they were modeled as Anatolian Neo and Lochsabour HG (38-54%). All with available SNPs were lactose intolerant (no surprise).
HLA types indicated a higher resistance to viral infections but an increased weakness to bacterial infections.
They noted HLA DRB1*15:01 was totally absent in this culture but high in the bronze age (20%).
I've often suspected disease played a large role in the IE invasion population shift. The conquering males are much more likely to mate with conquered females than conquered males were to mate with conquering females. The males were passing their steppe Y-DNA and HLA types to the children, which had a better survival chance. The children of the conquered males had less chance to survive the diseases which would still be prevalent. The steppe Y-DNA probably came with a "bonus package" of health and survivability.
So, maybe the higher WHG we see in some of the later Bronze Age steppe admixed people came from incorporation of people like these?
I wonder why there was selection against viral infections in particular. A hunter-gatherer would certainly be exposed to a lot of non-helpful bacteria as well.
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