Very suspcious of this result. Doesn't line up with any results I've ever seen. Maybe the region he's from is different, who knows. Could also have a NPE or something... :coffee:
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You have indeed higher East Med and Steppe/Indo-Europen ancestry than most Pontians we have seen. Your ancestry seems to be a mix of native Caucasian, Anatolian and Mycenaean-like/Hellenic with some extra Steppe/Indo-European input. You could be a mix of Pontian and Smyrniot or Islander.
Are you sure that all of your grandparents are from Pontus? I don't think it is imposible. As I told you we don't have many information about Western Pontus so we cannot tell for sure if these results are really atypical.
OP share your K36 coordinates, they are very good at identifying Pontic Greeks.
For example, this guys run on standard K13 oracle:
But then on K36:Code:K13 Oracle ref data revised 21 Nov 2013
Admix Results (sorted):
# Population Percent
1 West_Asian 38.79
2 East_Med 34.91
3 West_Med 15.24
4 North_Atlantic 4.06
5 Red_Sea 3.40
6 Baltic 2.49
Finished reading population data. 204 populations found.
13 components mode.
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Least-squares method.
Using 1 population approximation:
1 Armenian @ 4.964693
2 Georgian_Jewish @ 8.529721
3 Assyrian @ 10.774966
4 Turkish @ 12.709867
5 Kurdish @ 13.562288
6 Azeri @ 14.244275
7 Kurdish_Jewish @ 14.989817
8 Iranian_Jewish @ 15.985811
9 Iranian @ 16.981003
10 Lebanese_Muslim @ 18.374598
11 Georgian @ 19.710947
12 Cyprian @ 20.630198
13 Abhkasian @ 20.914104
14 Syrian @ 20.964319
15 Kumyk @ 22.360847
16 Lebanese_Druze @ 23.676897
17 Adygei @ 23.750498
18 Lebanese_Christian @ 23.923542
19 Balkar @ 24.871002
20 Ossetian @ 25.504896
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Abhkasian +50% Cyprian @ 4.245990
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Armenian +25% Cyprian +25% Georgian @ 4.004831
Using 4 populations approximation:
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1 Abhkasian + Armenian + Armenian + Cyprian @ 3.761790
2 Armenian + Armenian + Cyprian + Georgian @ 4.004831
3 Abhkasian + Abhkasian + Cyprian + Cyprian @ 4.245990
4 Abhkasian + Abhkasian + Cyprian + Lebanese_Druze @ 4.282678
5 Abhkasian + Abhkasian + Cyprian + Lebanese_Christian @ 4.335544
6 Abhkasian + Armenian + Cyprian + Georgian_Jewish @ 4.468407
7 Abhkasian + Cyprian + Georgian + Lebanese_Druze @ 4.586637
8 Abhkasian + Armenian + Assyrian + Cyprian @ 4.635136
9 Abhkasian + Cyprian + Georgian + Lebanese_Christian @ 4.635209
10 Abhkasian + Cyprian + Cyprian + Georgian @ 4.734260
11 Armenian + Cyprian + Georgian + Georgian_Jewish @ 4.744938
12 Abhkasian + Abhkasian + Cyprian + Samaritan @ 4.829273
13 Armenian + Assyrian + Cyprian + Georgian @ 4.952587
14 Armenian + Armenian + Armenian + Armenian @ 4.964693
15 Abhkasian + Armenian + Armenian + Lebanese_Christian @ 4.982151
16 Armenian + Armenian + Georgian + Lebanese_Christian @ 4.990697
17 Cyprian + Georgian + Georgian + Lebanese_Druze @ 5.048193
18 Abhkasian + Armenian + Armenian + Italian_Jewish @ 5.049139
19 Abhkasian + Abhkasian + Cyprian + Lebanese_Muslim @ 5.060164
20 Cyprian + Georgian + Georgian + Lebanese_Christian @ 5.091162
Done.
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Code:Distance to: PonticGreek_0057
5.28279282 Greek_Pontic
11.58782119 Caucasus_Jews
13.71781688 Turkey_average
14.66119368 Georgian_Laz
14.70483254 Turkish_Anatolia
14.76343456 Azeri_Jews
14.98752815 Assyrian
17.02445006 Armenian
17.52901309 Tatar_Crimea_Coast
17.95952394 Greek_Azov
18.25223000 Cyprus
19.30197658 Azeri_Kars&Igdir
19.42762724 Greek_Dodecanese
19.94122113 Greek_Chios
20.68232337 Greek_Ikaria
20.90315287 Greek_Kalymnos
20.96573395 Greek_Crete
21.12474615 Iraqi_Jews
21.89750899 Kurd
22.29146698 Ashkenazi_Eastern_Euro
22.29874884 Greek_Cyclades
22.43759791 Greek_Kythira
22.82541785 Azeri
23.31081509 Askhenazi
23.45286336 Italy_Calabria
I have one old Greek from Macedonia region kit , but it seems Pontic.
Code:"Greek Macedonian" results for puntDNAL K13
Kit Number: Z418934
Name: GreeceMaced1
1 Turkish_Trabzon @ 4.850202
2 Armenian @ 4.943121
3 Assyrian @ 6.664927
4 Lebanese_Druze @ 10.400541
5 Turkish_Kayseri @ 10.442624
6 Azerbaijan_Azeri @ 10.446073
7 Lebanese_Muslim @ 11.090278
8 Lebanese_Christian @ 11.850492
9 Abkhasian @ 11.862915
10 Cypriot @ 11.916451
11 Syrian @ 12.244077
12 Turkish @ 12.708711
13 Kurdish @ 12.729999
14 Iranian @ 16.302404
15 Ossetian @ 16.326971
16 Dagestan_Azeri @ 17.420746
17 Turkish_Aydin @ 17.674520
18 Jordanian @ 17.760265
19 Balkar @ 18.509897
20 Samaritan_Jew @ 18.515850
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Armenian +50% Turkish_Trabzon @ 3.706778
Until he says or knows otherwise, we have to take his told ancestry seriously and consider that perhaps the regions part of his family is from is historically closer to Ionian Greek settlers. Perhaps the more east the more they are "Hellenized natives" but in the west are more "pure".
Very interesting results. It seems quite atypical. I guess that you have a Bulgarian/Balkan grandparent as well.
Could you provide us your results of the commercial DNA company you have tested with?
I should have given from the beginning more information about my ancestry so people don't get confused. Actually, I was born in southern Russia on the black coast sea from both Pontian parents from Kerasounta and Trapezounta as I mentioned but as far as I know one of my great grandmothers from my father's side was Russian. I live in Thessaloniki since my childhood. I didn't mention that because many people don't want to discuss things when they here about rosopontians. :) My DNA results from MyHeritage was 52.5 west Asia 46.3 Greek 1.2 Ashkenazi.
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