Because the reference samples are from South of China and the component peaks in Southern China (those maps you see do not show distributions of that region)
Those are Kalmykians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia
Because he doesn't have any samples south/east of that point. Northwest China is the easternmost sample he has mapped
After studying people's results for quite some time, I would rename the following components:
Fennoscandian to Finnish or Finnic (East Finns score 75-80%)
East_Central_Euro to Baltic (Lithuanian score up to 37%; Latvians up to 36%)
French to Celtic (it peaks in the Celtic populations, not only...
You guys take K36 component nicknames way too literally. Creator clearly misnamed many of them.
He named them by the areas of origin of his references, and might have not suspected they would peak in different areas.
But he also mentioned that those components do not represent recent ancestry...
It has the biggest concentration in Ireland and Cornwall. So I understand it is Celtic.
I am going to post a map with biggest concentrations of each element of K36 soon. Stay tuned (new thread)
Since 2017, N1c is now N1a
https://isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_HapgrpN.html
So there is a sense to modify the name of the forum!
I am now N1a1a1a1a1a1a1a3 M2783 Z16975/FGC13372
Yes, indeed, it would be interesting if someone done a study on the regions around Kyiv. People of many various villages have their own distinctive look and there is a big range of phenotypes.
The paternal side is deeply Kyivan.
The ancestor from Altai is on the maternal side.
k36
Aha...
Kyiv region. Parents from Kyiv and 10km from Kyiv. Grandparents: paternal: 10km from Kyiv, 80km from Kyiv; maternal: from Vinnytsya region and one person from Altai, with unknown ancestry, perhaps back-migration.
My ftdna y12 matches are lithuanians. And 3 out of 10 top autosomal matches are...
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