Silesian
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- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b-BY593
- mtDNA haplogroup
- U5b2a2
That's ok, because we are not talking about local population replacement, but only about IE invasion and ruling of this area for over 2,000 years. In this time period the invaders managed to mix about 10% of their Y haplogroup to the local pool. Means more cultural influence than genetic.
I'm not sure about R1b. Some might belong to much earlier R1b tribes movements, and some to IE Hittites? Or maybe it was Z93 people who picked up some R1b tribes and made them the first R1b IEs?
If we conjecture that we are talking about a time frame of roughly 200+/- generations, from the start of the migrations from PIE regions; and we have your theory of an elite leaving behind roughly 10% descendants as in the case Z93 and Medes, in Northwest Iran.
Which branches of R1a [Z-282, Z-284, Z-93 ,M-458, M-558, Z-2125, M780] would you attribute to the spread of Indo-European languages.
Armenians_
Phrygians_
Hittites_
Luwians_
Greek_
Albanian_