Are they blondies?
According to the paper
“We only find variation in AGT,
KITLG, EDAR, ABCC1 and CYP3A5 genes. While the different variants and incidence of heterozygotes in AGT and KITLIG is spread out among various groups and time periods and likely represents population variation, it seems that the increase in hetergozygosity in ABCC1 and EDAR genes is mostly restricted to Neolithic and Bronze Age individuals from Cis-Baikal group. On EDAR we observed increased occurrence of (A) on otherwise widespread (G) variant associated with straight hair and shovel shaped incisors (note that the phenotypic representation of heterozygotes would be the same), while four individuals were heterozygous on ABCC1 gene, otherwise all tested individuals were homozygotes for variant T associated with Asian ancestry. Thus, it seems that
on some phenotype encoding SNPs we detect signal of western admixture in Cis-Baikal during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.”
- EHG R1a carried mt DNA C and lake bikal pottery, introducing supine burial of east eurasia to east europe for the first tiem:
According to wiki
The derived allele of the
KITLG SNP rs12821256 is associated with, and likely causal for, blond hair in Europeans.
[17] The earliest known individual with this allele is the Siberian ANE individual Afontova Gora 3, which is dated to 16130-15749 BCE.
[9] This allele is also present in one hunter-gatherer each from
Samara,
Motala and
Ukraine (I0124, I0014 and I1763), as well as several later individuals with
Steppe ancestry. Since
the allele is found in populations with EHG but not
Western Hunter-Gatherer ancestry, it suggests that its origin is in the Ancient North Eurasian population.
[citation needed]
Geneticist
David Reich said that the
KITLG gene for blond hair entered continental Europe in a massive population migration from the Eurasian steppe, by a people who had Ancient North Eurasian ancestry