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Eskimos are closer to Malta than all of those people.

I'll interject here to say there's a difference between Finnish (Suomi) and Finno-Ugric ancestry. Russians, specifically northern Russians, have little of the former and lot of the latter - and not just from their mothers. You won't find anything close to those percentages in West or South Slavs...

Those descriptions are funny - and not in the Lazaridis paper. :rolleyes2: Kalash is not pure ANE or closest relative of ANE - far from it. R has not much to do with Loschbour either, and N is as common or more common in its closest modern relatives.

Arent the regions with no West Asian admixture better distinguished by high N than by R1a? N is as common or more common than R1a in Baltic countries, Northern Russia and Finland, and these show no West Asian in that map. R1a peaks in Poland, Ukraine and Southern Russia, which have small...

Calculators like ones that can be found in Gedmatch are one thing, software like ADMIXTURE used by bloggers like Dienekes and Polako is a program used in academic studies, and the genetic samples they use are also used in academic studies - like the HGDP samples. Genome bloggers are indeed...

They both use the same programs and same academic samples. The only difference is that Dodecad includes project members (marked as Country_D) in the calculators besides academic samples. Dodecad's been on hold since 2012 so if anything those calculators are now the less comprehensive of the two...

The "scene" of human genomics would be poorer without enthusiast bloggers. The admixture maps Maciamo has put on this site are based on Dodecad calculators of Dienekes, those are another hobbyist project comparable to Polako's Eurogenes.

The East Asian marker is actually Hazara, so all Europeans get it in greater amounts than they would get "pure" East Asian. Otherwise it just reflects the southwest-northeast cline in Europe. Table S6 has the percentages. Basques get 3-4%. Italians get 4-5%. French get 8%. Northwest Europeans...

The Sardinians don't stand out in the 2d PCA below, but cluster with Cretans and Sicilians, so we can say the third eigenvector is a "Sardinian factor". It's hard to make out their opposite, it's either South Moroccans or Chuvash. The first two eigenvectors are more obvious.

Should be easy enough, just looks at the affinities of WHG, ANE and EEF from their respective introductionary papers (Raghavan 2013, Lazaridis 2014 updates) Stuttgart is pure EEF and Loschbour is pure WHG. EEF peaks in Sardinia and WHG peaks in Northeast Europe. Stuttgart joins all Sardinian...

I think this one is clear enough. As a side note, there perhaps should be more quality control with sampling. Lots of Chuvashes included in this PCA have clearly been russified to the extent they've become genetically Slavic. Finns appear to have done the same to one Dane.

Quite a lot obviously. N1c frequency contrast there suggests that the incoming turkics imposed both their language and Y-DNA, but also that N1c1 came recently to that part of Siberia and did not have time to spread. Autosomally Yakuts are similar to neighbouring Siberians rather than Turkics...

The fleeing people didn't change language, but the local siberians they mingled with did. Modern Yakuts would be the result of this merger.

Genetically that situation is similar to how R1b (M415) is equally ancestral to V88 and P297. The geographical differences in migration routes are relative in comparison, the main difference between the splits of R1b(V88) and N1c1 (M2019) from others is that the men carrying the former travelled...

Generally it's understood that Yakuts got their language from Turkic speakers fleeing the Mongols 700 years ago. Whether they got N1c1 that way too is unknown without ancient DNA from Sakha-Yakutia. As seen in the case of Hungarians, a group can change language without the event leaving a...