Pax Augusta
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Thanks, Jovialis. I guess my hunch was correct. That space between Bergamo and TSI is filled with people like Emilians, maybe people from the Lunigiana, maybe even Ligurians (that Piemonte/Ligurian Alps sample)? I'm just guessing about the latter two, but Collegno 36 is definitely Emilian like, and my closest match ever, in any test (around 3). Now it's even clearer why, on gedmatch calculators etc, my best scores were variably 4 or 5 to Bergamo and TSI.
Good work.
That the space between Bergamo HGDP and TSI is filled with people like Emilians was already known, I think. And it also filled with Ligurians and also a tiny minority of people from Piedmont, Lombardy itself and even some Venetians. Because Bergamo HGDP is too far west sometimes.
Anyway personal variation is always underestimated, which is poorly shown in academic studies and is instead very evident in the results with commercial companies. It doesn't change the general trends but it makes everything more nuanced and less sharply outlined.