no relation to indo-gypsies.
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no relation to indo-gypsies.
Why not? Their primary maternal haplogroups are East Asian (like D) so it makes sense that they would be East Asian/mongolic maternally and Tocharian paternally. Outside of their main haplogroups they also have a bunch of mtdna groups at 2-3% indicating that maternally they are primarily East Asian but also with extreme diversity maternally however paternally not diverse (Founder effect) And we know Tocharians who were Indo European therefore R1 also lived there, so combine that with the founder effect and it’s possible
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