Agrippa - so which modern group is the best representation of the Neolithic migrants into Europe, genetically? Might it be Armenians and Georgians?
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Agrippa - so which modern group is the best representation of the Neolithic migrants into Europe, genetically? Might it be Armenians and Georgians?
These representatives of the "Anatolian signal" were at least important sources for the Neolithic and Metal Age expansions from the Northern part probably and going through the Caucasus into Eastern Europe, over the Anatolia into South Eastern Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by cg93
But I think it is possible that there were other Neolithic expansions with different signals.
This is just an important one for the East and most likely present in early Indo-Europeans too.
If that component analysis represents a real, distinguishable element, I would say that Sardinian was part of it too obviously and if talking about the secondary centres, NE European as well.
So there was not just one expansion. But for this signal, this group, which I would also connect to the yDNA E-V13 and J2, "West Asian" might be not the signal 1:1, but seems to be at least related - at least it would fit into the necessary profile.
And today, well, it is simple, you see in which groups it is strongest, where it best survived genetically - not necessary racially, because if going after sites like Çatalhöyük, they were mostly Mediterranoid, whereas todays carriers being often "Armenoidicised".
The populations would be Lezgins and Georgians in particular, Armenian and Assyrian too.
My latest results - DOD347
75.07% Northwest European (Average UK - 69.5%, Average Ireland - 74.8%)
8.73% Northeast European (Average UK - 10.1%, Average Ireland - 7.6%)
8.26% Basque (Average UK - 8.4%, Average Ireland - 10.4%)
5.57% Sardinian (Average UK - 9%, Average Ireland - 4.5%)
1.81% West Asian (Average UK - 2.4%, Average Ireland - 2.3%)
0.2% South Asian (Average UK - 0.2%, Average Ireland - 0.3%)
0% South West Asian (Average UK - 0%, Average Ireland - 0.1%)
0% East Asian (Average for both UK and Ireland is 0%)
0% North African (Average for UK - 0.1%, Average for Ireland - 0%)
0% Sub-Saharan (Average for UK - 0.2%, Average for Ireland - 0%)
0% East African (Average for both UK and Ireland is 0%)
I'm below or at average for most of the categories, but my NW Euro is 6% higher, closer to the Irish than the British average).
Some gradient maps by Loxias from ABF.
http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/sho...&postcount=459
North-West European:
http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/705/nwedodk11.jpg
N-East European:
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/394/needodk11.jpg
Basque:
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9239/badodk11.jpg
Sardinian:
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/8419/sardodk11.jpg
East Asian:
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/7990/eadodk11.jpg
West Asian:
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/8162/wadodk11.jpg
South-West Asian:
http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/1791/swadodk11l.jpg
South Asian:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8302/sadodk11.jpg
North African:
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8105/nadodk11.jpg
East African:
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2571/eafdodk11.jpg
Sub-Saharan African:
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9849/ssadodk11.jpg
What's also interesting is the relationship of the components to each other, at the bottom of the picture:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wk9_ST1CKC...MIXTURE_11.png
Just look at the fact, that North Eastern is closer to Basque than to West Asian, even though they are geographically closer TODAY, while on the other hand, NW European is closer to West Asian than what one might think it would, if looking at the geographical distribution!
West Asian is almost - so practically as - close to North Western as Basque is.
The distance to South Western is MUCH larger in comparison.
Sardinian is closest to North Western!
It looks to me, as if the North Western component could be, actually, more of a mix of other components in this scheme at least, showing so close relationships to the rest.
North Eastern on the other hand is distant from all the other components, but close, really close, only to North Western.
This implies to me that this North Eastern is more of an isolated (Mesolithic? Together with Basque?) component, whereas North Western shows strong connections to all the components common in Europe, almost on the same level.
North Western is the closest match for North Eastern, West Asian, Basque and Sardinian.
So I'd assume the Northern component of the North West is the result of a mixture from all those elements marching North in very ancient times, closest to North Eastern, but also close to the rest of the main European components.
At least if overstretching the data and my imagination ;)
But I found it really interesting how that is possible and expect further break ups, especially with more data...
I agree. Originally, I included only the Armenians, Assyrians, and Iraqi [Babylonian] Jews in the graphic I am attaching, below. After reading your comment, I added the Georgian and Lezgin Dodecad K11 averages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Agrippa
How accurate are these results, are they more accurate when you compare to a group with similar ancestry?
K=12 ADMIXTURE results for selected participants
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-po3ry04KyL...MIXTURE_12.png
DOD197
North-west European 58.68%
North-east European 29.93%
Basque 9.01%
West Asian 1.73%
East Asian 0.47%
Sardinian 0.17%
North African 0%
South Asian 0%
East African 0%
Sub-Saharan 0%
South-west Asian 0%
North Eurasian 0%
Some of the K=12 sheets
Scandinavians
http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/2...dinaviand1.png(I'm nr.12)
British
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/215...britishd12.png
Finns
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/9...finnishd12.png
Germans
http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/4...egermand12.png
Irish
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4...reirishd12.png
Polish
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7697/...epolishd12.png
Russians
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/458...russiand12.png
DOD347
63.05% North West European (UK average 61.7%, Ireland average 63.9%) - decrease from last run of 12.02%
16.84% North East European (UK average 13.9%, Ireland average 13.7%) - increase from last run of 8.11%
12.72% Basque (UK average 14.4%, Ireland average 15.6%) - increase from last run of 4.46%
3.85% Sardinian (UK average 4.6%, Ireland average 1.8%) - decrease from last run of 1.72%
1.28% North African (UK average 0.4%, Ireland average 0.2%) - increase from last run of 1.28%
1.24% West Asian (UK average 2.7%, Ireland average 2.8%) - decrease from last run of 0.57%
0.81% East African (UK average 0.2%, Ireland average 0.1%) - increase from last run of 0.81%
0.2% South West Asian (UK average 1.1%, Ireland average 1%) - increase from last run of 0.2%
0% Sub-Saharan (UK average 0.3%, Ireland average 0%) - remained the same
0% South Asian (UK average 0.6%, Ireland average 0.7%) - decrease from last run of 0.2%
0% East Asian (UK average 0.1%, Ireland average 0%) - remained the same
0% North Eurasian (UK average 0.1%, Ireland average 0.1%) - not included in last run