Search results

It is polygenic indeed, but if I'm not mistaken there is one "main switch", namely HERC2/OCA2, SNP rs12913832. If you have other blue/grey/green eye variants, but not even one of those, you are highly likely to get brown eyes. To differentiate e.g. blue from green eyes, you need to use a...

We could also say Germanics, Arabs and Niloto-Hamitic people (the latter not covered here).

If we look at the Akbari samples, the most important sample by far is I41598, because he is the oldest known sample from around 1300 BC with a very interesting IBD sharing which is more than 90 % old Daco-Thracian in ancestry. The big issue with this sample however is, that its a singleton. Not...

Absolutely. Carinthians have not such a low Germanic level and Swiss have, especially in some areas, quite high levels of Germanic too. A bit problematic is to sort Germanic vs. Celtic out in many of these regions IMHO.

The interesting part about the Hacs samples with Southern European autosomal profiles is that they have remarkably low levels of non-Thracian admixture at first glance. A second E-V13 is also downstream of E-Z5018, under E-L17! Another branch which is very rare in the ancient DNA record and...

J-L283 is the most Illyrian haplogroup, just like E-V13 is "most Thracian", I-M253 and R-U106 most Germanic, R-Z93 most Iranian etc., etc.

To put things into context, here some data for E-V13 from FTDNA - this time exclusively based on BigY-testers, to keep things simple and comparable, since the FF tests don't cover a lot of important SNPs. Something about its limitations: This is based on the modern data. It is absolutely...

Looking at the different kinds and different levels of admixture already by 1300-600 BC, this quotation came to my mind again, which clearly points to structure if looking at the admixture in IA Bulgaria: Last common layer of all Daco-Thracians is Channelled Ware: Spread in the Transitonal...

I'm cautious to name them in any specific way, but they clearly have this tradition from the Neolithic-EBA, which shows in the IBD sharing. Perachora has already some Indoeuropean admixture on a low level, comparable to the levels in Gumelnita-Karanovo, which with they have some IBD sharing. So...

After the last run I sorted the oldest samples (1300-1100 BC, 800-600 BC) and some of the E-FGC11451 and couple of other 1800 BP/SE samples with vs. without significant IBD sharing with Greek samples. The result is glass clear. I used these samples...

There is more admixture with Kyjatice, Encrusted Pottery related groups and Celts also. Illyrian admixture in ancient E-V13 is generally not more common than this type of Central European admixture which pulls the affected individuals in the West Balkan direction. Even some of the North...

The big issue we deal with, still, is that while there are now Northern-Central branches South of the Danube - somewhere - in the 1800-1600 BP SE transect from Akbari, that these samples have no significant IBD or haplogroup overlap with the Albanians. So we have an instance of a sex biased...

To demonstrete in detail what I have written above, that we deal with a totally E-V13 dominated fairly pure Daco-Thracian population which appeared unmixed on the scene and the admixture had a male sex bias, here the core group sampled which being dominated by E-FGC11457 over the generations...

When looking at the 1800 SE samples with E-V13, there is one group of samples which follow a serial number, together with females and non-E-V13 individuals. These are the samples...

For sure it was a switch to a different belief system for the clans and individuals which practised it. And the reason is easy to understand if looking at the maps, because the more Northern Illyrian groups in particular were completely surrounded by various Urnfield groups, from West to East...

I agree, Illyrians are among the better tested BA and IA people, most definitely. And the most distinctive feature of core Illyrian groups is the clan tumuli, in which multiple members of the clan were buried. Barely any other group was as strict about its inhumation rule as the Illyrian core...

That's absolutely wrong, because the switch to cremation is simply the result of a specific religious belief systems demands. There were many cultures which switched from inhumation to cremation while making a cultural leap forward. You can't generalise from the Greek Bronze Age case, in which...

The expansions and big founder events of haplogroups, all haplogroups I looked at, follow the same pattern in the pre-state era: They being associated with ethnic-tribal expansions which can be traced by the expansion of a material culture. This is true for R-Z2103, R-U152, I-M253, E-V13, J-L283...

We have the usual problem in the Dacian sphere of the locals being overwhelmingly cremated. This is even true in areas like Viminacium, in a later period, when a large fraction of the local population still got cremated, which causes inevitable some distortion. In this case at Apulum we really...

Well, the Roman Dacia paper is out and once more its a disappointment to some degree, first and foremost because of the number of male samples and secondly the resolution. There is just one confirmed E-V13, which happens to be basal...I hope someone can get a more downstream assignment of him...