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Irish and Scots are more northern genetically because the original populations must have originated from Northern Europe. That's the only logical conclusion I can come up with. Even in ancient components like ANE Irish and Scots are higher in this. Another possibility is they had not as much Neolithic farmers. Not really sure about why southern English are more southern shifted but maybe originally they were like the Irish and Scots but later waves of immigrants from the Continent shifted them more south in genetics. Hopefully Jackson will weigh in on this.
As far as I'm aware Bretons are quite close to the British.
On the K8 my mother is 0.161975 ANE and I am 0.158429.
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