How did Y-DNA haplogroup Q enter Scandinavia?

**Jaska** · 08-25-2010, 11:16 PM

Q is present below 1 % also within Finns, Estonians and Latvians (Lappalainen et al. 2008: Migration waves to the Baltic Sea region). So there is a continuum: from Baltia to Ukraine it's not so long journey, even though the latter may be due to the Turkic expansion: Q is also present within Turkish, Tatars and Altaians.

http://www.ebc.ee/EVOLUTSIOON/public...nioglu2004.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...JHGv74p661.pdf

Q really could be a remnant of some ancient eastern (micro-)migration. It would be much harder to explain these matches outside Norway by the Eskimo influence. And equally hard it is to explain the Baltian and Fennoscandian matches by the Turkic influence...

**Motörhead Remember Me** · 09-07-2010, 09:04 AM

Inuits have nothing to do with bringing this to Scandinavia. It's obvious Q is one of those haplogroups which made it to Scandinavia and northern Europe through normal migration. Q is also present in western Sweden at rates similar to Norway. It's even suggested and there is diuscussion that men carrying Q may have been an elite bringing with them Asiatic cultiral influences into Scandinavia.

Q is "mongoloid" according to anthroforum logic that's why some wish to see the presence of Q in Scandinavia as a result of slave trade and not a haplogroup among others in the old Norse genepool.