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This thread is a disaster for the simple reason that too many people are extrapolating too little genetic data, and then even worse they are tying it to linguistics and ethnic identities across time and space.
We know the rough contours both autosomally and patrilineally in the Balkans and there are shared pools between the various peoples that exist today.
What we don't know is how large the groups of arriving Slavs were when they migrated into the Balkans, and which earlier groups of Slavs assimilated into Serbs and Croats (since those were the only two West Balkan Slavs for centuries and centuries).
And beyond that, one must remember that identities have historically often been fluid.
Who were the "other Slavs"? The History of the Bishops of Salona and Split gives an account of the arrival of the Croats. Thomas the Archdeacon thought that the names such as Croats, Goths and Slavs were synonyms:
From the Polish territories called Lingonia seven or eight tribal clans arrived under Totilo. When they saw that the Croatian land would be suitable for habitation because in it there were few Roman colonies, they sought and obtained for their duke...The people called Croats...Many call them Goths, and likewise Slavs, according to the particular name of those who arrived from Poland and Bohemia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Salonitana