sojc
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- Ethnic group
- Han Chinese with unexplained E-V13
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- E-V13 FGC11450
- mtDNA haplogroup
- A4
You have to consider that you are not alone from that place with European yDNA and autosomal DNA as well. Would be really interesting to know how other people from the same region score on the tests you did. That the company-tests can't pint it down might even be in favour of "old Indo-European" DNA, because it is simply not specific to any modern European people. Or just too small segments.
There are really so many possibilities between the Bronze Age and modern times, how an European could have made it to Shandong - or probably not even to Shandong, but the already mostly East Asian ancestor moved inside of China. I really hope you get close matches.
I checked all the male relatives on my dad's side on 23andMe who shared their yDNA info (roughly 10 very distance cousins all of Chinese descent living in America/Europe who used 23andMe), but none of them are E-V13 (they are all common Chinese groups like O).
My dad's family tree is largely lost due to the communist revolution, and I do not know relatives before my grandfather's generation. I can see how fragile E-V13 would be in that area of China, since my dad has 2 brothers, and I'm the only male of my generation since I have 1 sister and 5 female cousins. I have not even found evidence of other people with confirmed E-V13 in all of China yet on the internet, but unfortunately I don't speak Chinese so I can't read anything from Chinese forums/websites.