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A bit more on the E-V13 phylogeny and branching patterns: To put things into context, E-FTT49, E-Z5018 was barely existing when E-BY5022 seems to have expanded all over the place. For what its worth, up to around 1800-1700 BC, E-Z5018 could been still a single lineage, in theory. At a time...

Great find. We have to keep in mind that even within Gáva in the narrower sense, there were regional groupings, most notably the Lapus II-Gáva zone which was by and large a more direct continuation of Suciu de Sus into Lapus into the Gáva period. Another issue is that we can't say with...

Not all J2a was Greco-Roman, some J2a existed in the Carpathian basin even before the Iron Age (Neolithic samples, Bronze Age samples prove it). But that was, quite obviously, not the main source in modern Romanians. I think there wasn't just one big migration, but multiple ones. Like a recent...

I think it came in due a common Romance population element I wouldn't consider Vlach, likely not even Pre-Vlach. If the Proto-Albanians lived in the borders of the Roman Empire, and they likely did, it is highly unlikely they had no gene flow from the generic Romance urban-settlement populations...

Two things to add: First, if talking about Romania, we need to talk about concrete regions, not Romania as whole. Both for the Dacians, Daco-Romans and even late Romance presence, Oltenia was e.g. more important than say Moldova. E.g., the old Dacian city of Sucidava was up to 600 under...

But there a couple of branches which look like being, at the very least, rather re-introduced by other Balkan people. It doesn't really look like a direct Greek survival on a higher level. This applies to E-L618 also, with a couple of branches being found in old Mycenaean Greeks, but most...

A significant part of these Greeks comes from Albanians and later Balkan movements, though.

Absolutely agreed, but do you know what's so odd? That the T-Y21204 branch might turn out to be a Greek founder, yet the moderns are all over the place. It has multiple Greek-related ancient DNA finds already, despite the low frequency testing for ancient Greeks. The odd part is that nearly all...

Well, I think that Gáva descends rather from Suciu de Sus than Belegis I. But even if we are talking about specifically Central European elements in the Balkan Urnfield spread, most to all of it came from Gáva-Holigrady and Belegis II-Gáva, not from the Celtic-like people of the Middle Danubian...

I used Stefanos tool for evaluating IBD-sharing for various samples available in this data set (pretty limited unfortunately, but some interesting ones included). Here is the link: https://genarchivist.net/showthread.php?tid=1950 The biggest takeaways are that all Balkan-like Thracian-related...

Both for Gáva-related and Stamped Pottery, we have to distinguish between the pottery and the material culture associated with the people primarily producing it. The influence of the Stamped Pottery-related Cantharoi can be put on a map: Note that its not equivalent with Daco-Thracians, but...

It is not perfect, but probably the best we got. German lineages have statistically more issues, because there are old American lineages with lots of testers and Germans from specific regions of the South West are very much overrepresented. This is much less of an issue for Greeks, though more...

To me it looked more like whether I want males or females to decide and the questions were rather arbitrary/repetitive.

I'm sure there is some continuity of the Greeks from Pre-Hellenistic Antiquity, but we have to differentiate between: - Mycenaean Greeks - Pre-Hellenistic Greeks - Roman era - Early Medieval - Modern Greeks In every instance a fairly massive change seems to have taken place and its not about...

Sure, both the yDNA and mtDNA don't determine the ancestry on the individual level and can, in extreme instances, being non-representative for a whole population. But in this and similar cases, its very different, if there was basically a near complete or at least large scale replacement of the...

One cannot speak about ethnic and population continuity without uniparental continuity. It is the safest way to detemine regional ethnic/genetic continuity beyond doubt. Because similar ancestral proportions can exist under different scenarios. For the Greeks, we can say for sure that there...

It would be great if anonymised yDNA data could be transferred to say YFull or the like, that would be a big win, even though I'm not sure about the cooperation of both sides. Thank you for asking for the assignment! They did analyse the mtDNA: So its rather about further analyses/publication.

Seems to correspond with the autosomal presence of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA in Poles, though its rather on the higher end of the expected spectrum, which makes me wonder about the female side of things - which might be lower, rather? Do they publish the yDNA assignments or make the raw data public...

Depends on the test he did. On FTDNA, its a common assignment for branches which being either not covered by the autosomal chip or are rare upstream branches of E-V13. Usually the first. Some more common branches like E-BY5022 being not covered too, if I'm not mistaken.

One interesting aspect is, that clearly the unification of E-V13 with other Albanian haplogroups happened earlier than the spread in many parts (all even?) of the current Albanian state. So another interesting question is how much of the local pre-Albanian local population influence is clearly...