My mtDNA Wiki report: Proto-Slavic Corded Ware

[Peterski]

Elite Slavic athletes descended from Proto-Slavic Corded Ware culture!:

https://i.imgur.com/55aa3Bn.png

https://i.imgur.com/I5AhIG3.png

https://i.imgur.com/2W8kZGO.png

https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_W_mtDNA.shtml


A study conducted by Maruszak et al. (2014) analysed the mtDNA of 395 elite Polish athletes (213 endurance athletes and 182 power athletes) and 413 sedentary controls and found that haplogroup W is among the most overrepresented mtDNA types among power athletes at the Olympic/World Class level.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYmMgBAeFWQ

[Peterski]

A closer look at locations of my ancient mtDNA matches:

https://i.imgur.com/ZM5S98A.png

Western Corded Ware, Baltic Corded Ware and Yamnaya:

https://i.imgur.com/ZM5S98A.png

https://i.imgur.com/cgklHON.png

[Peterski]

The author of mtDNA Wiki and mtDNA Atlas blogs makes these reports, I recommend:

http://mtdnawiki.com

http://mtdnaatlas.blogspot.com

[Peterski]

TL,DR summary:

Originally W was a CHG (Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers) lineage. Later W6 came with Caucasian brides to the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, where it became part of the Yamnaya culture. Then during Indo-European westward expansions ca. 5000-4000 years ago, W6a differentiated from W6 and became part of the Corded Ware culture. Proto-Slavs emerged from descendants of Corded Ware. Today, W6a is an almost exclusively Slavic or Balto-Slavic mtDNA haplogroup. W as a whole is also overrepresented among elite power athletes.

[Vlatko Vukovic]

TL,DR summary:

Originally W was a CHG (Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers) lineage. Later W6 came with Caucasian brides to the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, where it became part of the Yamnaya culture. Then during Indo-European westward expansion, W6a differentiated from W6 and became part of the Corded Ware culture. Finally, Proto-Slavs emerged from descendants of Corded Ware. Today, W6a is an almost exclusively Slavic or Balto-Slavic mtDNA haplogroup. W as a whole is also overrepresented among elite power athletes.

CHG ancestry likely diffused into Steppe due to bride exchanges between CHG and EHG.

Maybe it's more accurate to say proto-Balto-Slavic, since it's hard to divide this 2 related ethno-lingusitic groups (in ancient time i mean).

[Peterski]

Maybe it's more accurate to say proto-Balto-Slavic, since it's hard to divide this 2 related ethno-lingusitic groups (in ancient time i mean).

Yes but for some reason it is less common today among Balts than Slavs (maybe a founder effect?). However, its presence among Estonians must be due to Indo-European / Baltic admixture.

[Vlatko Vukovic]

for some reason it is less common today among Balts than Slavs

Maybe it's just becouse of Finno-Ugric admixture in the ethnogenesis of Balts.

[Peterski]

Maybe it's just becouse of Finno-Ugric admixture in the ethnogenesis of Balts.

But Estonians are more Finno-Ugric than Balts and yet they have more of it?

[Vlatko Vukovic]

But Estonians are more Finno-Ugric than Balts and yet they have more of it?

More Finno-Ugric in linguistic and cultural sense, yes. But what about Y-DNA results?

Finno-Ugric N is more common in Lithuania and Latvia than it is in Estonia. :)

[Peterski]

Finno-Ugric N is more common in Lithuania and Latvia than it is in Estonia. :)

No it is not, where did you find this info?

[Vlatko Vukovic]

No it is not, where did you find this info?

Eupedia, 2017... https://www.eupedia.com/europe/european_y-dna_haplogroups.shtml

Or it is outdated?

[Peterski]

About Lithuanian Y-DNA, there was this study with 301 samples:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?212757-Old-Prussian-ancestry-of-East-Prussians

R1a - 42.19% (127)
N1 - 40.53% (122)
I1 - 4.65% (14)
R1b - 4.32% (13)
E1b - 2.66% (8)
I2a - 2.33% (7)
J - 1.33% (4)
G - 1.00% (3)
I2b - 0.33% (1)
other - 0.66% (2)

And when it comes to share of R1a-M458 in all of Lithuanian R1a:

R1a(xM458) - 100 (= 78.74% of R1a) most of it is R1a-Z280 including Z92
R1a-M458 - 27 (= 21.26% of R1a)

So only 1/5 of Lithuanian R1a is M458 (in Poland it is about half of R1a).

As for Baltic subclades of N1c, I think they can be described as:

http://i.imgur.com/liyBy1Y.png

[Gangrel]

been waiting for mine for 2 days

how long did yours take

[Peterski]

how long did yours take

About 3 days.

[Peterski]

Bump.

[Peterski]

Visigoth I12034 had mtDNA haplogroup W6a, which is the same as my mtDNA haplogroup:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?282042-New-Iberian-paper-with-Celtiberian-samples-out!

https://i.imgur.com/eQM1kTg.png