Which of these populations is a bigger genetic outlier? Sardinians or Basques?

[Roy]

I think it is an interesting topic as both ethnic groups are regarded as the biggest outliers among Southern Europeans. Sardinians have an excessive amount of EEF Neolithic ancestry while Basques besides forming their own cluster, have unusually distribution of blood groups (very high amount of blood groups O, and Rh- percentage).


Discuss.

[dududud]

Sardinians have relatively high WHG, more that Central and Southern Italian.

Basque have more indo-european, WHG, and less EEF. But Nuraghi population was more close to Basque than to modern Sardinians.

[Parça do Neymar]

No idea, but I would bet on the Sardinians.

[Samnium]

Sardinians by far.

[calxpal]

I think Sardinians.

[Cristiano viejo]

Stupid thread

https://evolutionistx.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/genetic_map_of_europe.png

Italians (not only Sardinians) and Greeks are more outlier than Basques.

[RyoHazuki]

Basques overlap greatly with Northern Spain and SW France. Nobody overlaps with Sardinians.

[dududud]

Basques overlap greatly with Northern Spain and SW France. Nobody overlaps with Sardinians.

The Basques are clearly identifiable with the Spaniards: no Sub-Saharan and North African (Iberomorisian) contribution, no more WHG contribution, etc.

On a PCA, you can easily tell them apart. Even genetically: less East-med contribution, if any, on Eurogenes calculators, etc.

Also the Basques (purely, not mixed with spaniard) have more in common with the French in general than the Spaniards (in terms of facial features, genetics, the non-existent non-European contribution to them), etc.

[RyoHazuki]

The Basques are clearly identifiable with the Spaniards: no Sub-Saharan and North African (Iberomorisian) contribution, no more WHG contribution, etc.

On a PCA, you can easily tell them apart. Even genetically: less East-med contribution, if any, on Eurogenes calculators, etc.

Also the Basques (purely, not mixed with spaniard) have more in common with the French in general than the Spaniards (in terms of facial features, genetics, the non-existent non-European contribution to them), etc.

By overlap, I simply mean you use Basques as a base to model Iberians around.

[Unknown European]

Sardinians are more of a genetic outlier population compared to the Basque.

[Cristiano viejo]

Also the Basques (purely, not mixed with spaniard) have more in common with the French in general than the Spaniards (in terms of facial features, genetics, the non-existent non-European contribution to them), etc.
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