Interesting. I'm doing a fullgenomes test right now. Also after speaking to a Albanian from Mirdita(where we claim descent), the oral history says the Pershpalaj(assuming it was our paternal line and not a woman who married into our line) were descended from A Condottieri from the Apennines named Paul. He was supposedly hired by the King of Albania in the 1400s and brought to Albania to fight the Ottomans.
If this is true, could it explain the shift towards Sardinia and Greece? 550 years being more than enough time to autosomally become predominantly Albanian. It would explain my fathers and my atypical "Italian marker" in the K36. Perhaps it was more elevated in medieval Italy, and due to isolation in the Albanian Alps, retained the higher marker?
Just spit balling here. Could be completely wrong. It would explain our shift towards Tuscans, more than common for Albanian. Especially with 0 Italian ancestry on record.
We also form our own cluster next to Albanians(me and my father) on the PCA plot. LukaszM suggesting possible Proto-Albanian connection. I don't see how though(being R1a).
I am testing with full genomes right now. I'm sure it will bring this matter to light, once the Yelite is ready.
Interestingly(from speaking with Kelmendasi) there is a Tuscan R1a-Z93 individual in Italy. Perhaps we belong to this clade? As I do not score really any Slavic admixture. Other than perhaps Bulgarians. Which is still far off.
Perhaps Thracians or Scythians maybe sarmatians? Idk.