Angela
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I would refer you to Jovialis' comment and would just add that Albanians and Tuscans plot "close" to one another but do not overlap. Albanians are to the east of Tuscans; that is due to Slavic ancestry. That's the major difference.
Perhaps I should add that I've never seen an academic study which shows overlap between those two groups.
I have, however, seen amateur postings on peripheral sites like quora which places Tuscans in the same "Circle" as Greeks and Kosovars. It's ridiculous. The latter two descend partly from Slavs and the former emphatically do not, carrying "western" not "eastern" ancestry. It's particularly ridiculous given that, if I recall correctly, the Tuscans even in that graph don't overlap with Kosovars or Greeks and are merely "near" them.
That's even without taking into account that PCAs take into account only two dimensions, and a small percent of total genetic variation.
It's the same nonsense of trying to claim people, and perhaps their accomplishments, who have nothing to do with the Balkans and/or Slavic ancestry.
As to Greeks versus Albanians, I can't at the moment find the link to the graphic but one exists showing Albanian genomes as a circle falling within the broader large spectrum of Greek genetic variation. The Albanians are very near Thessalians.
THAT SAYS NOTHING ABOUT HOW THAT HAPPENED, so it has nothing to do with your unending wars about who moved where when.
If people don't understand the difference between those two things they have no business discussing genetics.