Originally Posted by
Fire Haired
Finns are non Indo Europeans and have a very small amount of ancestry from Indo European speakers. R1a1a1b1 Z284 was spread in Europe by Corded ware culture, its is very rare in Scandinavia but around 20-30% in Norway-Sweden. R1b L11 may have been spread by Indo Europeans and almost all of the R1b in Finland is found in western Finland and probably from mixing with Swedes. In my opinion Finnish mainly descend from Uralic's who came in the copper or bronze age from Russia or somewhere else in eastern Europe. mtDNA and Y DNA from hunter gatherers of Scandinavia and mtDNA from hunter gatherers of Karelia show little evidence of genetic continuum with the people there today. mtDNA of Finland is mainly European farmer descended. There is mtDNA J1c, J2b1a, J2a1a1a, T2b, H5, H1, K1, K2, etc. like in the rest of Europe. There is a high amount of U5 in Finland but the majority is under U5b1b1a or U5b1b2 both estimated to be about 4,000 years old and I have heard may have originated in eastern Europe. The U5's from Scandinavians and Karelia hunter gatherers was all U5a. There Is close to 0% I2a1 in Scandinavia and hardly any I2a1b, so the first settlers of Scandinavia left hardily any blood in modern Scandinavians. Finnish and Sami though have about the highest about of European hunter gatherer ancestry overall it definitely takes up the majority of their ancestry.