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cyberlorian
10-29-2018, 10:31 AM
Why is it called as Western European Hunter Gatherer admixture although Northern and Eastern Europeans have this kind of admixture more than Western Europeans?

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Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas
10-29-2018, 11:07 AM
"This map compares the genes of modern people to the DNA of a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer from the Loschbour cave in Luxembourg, who lived 8,000 years ago and belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup I2a1b and mtDNA haplogroup U5b1a. The sample was tested by Lazaridis et al. (2014). It is supposed to reflect the percentage of similarity with the Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic inhabitants of Western Europe. Nowadays this admixture peaks among the Estonians (49.5%), Finns (47%), Lithuanians (46.5%), Icelanders (45.5%) and Orcadians (45.5%)."

Jana
10-29-2018, 11:31 AM
Because northeastern Europe is Least neolithic influenced part of Europe.

Token
10-29-2018, 11:33 AM
It is not called Western European Hunter-Gatherer, it is called Western Hunter-Gatherer.