Originally Posted by
SharpFork
My point is I already did everything you said we should do, there is no reason to somehow think my Apulian or French sample is not "northern" enough, which is what you seem to have been impliying.
What's the point in dealing with fake components? I don't know what "east med" actually is while I can point at the Near Eastern DNA through actual ancient samples that simply didn't exist in Latium, Tuscany in the iron age and only existed up to 10% in Bronze Age Sicily, on the other hand all Southern Italians today have more of it and I choose the Apulian sample with least Near Eastern DNA, so again why are so skeptic?
Look we can dispute samples and their provenance all day, but their general layout and pattern is clear and Piedmont and Liguria have that kind of Near Eastern DNA, Lombardy, Trentino, Veneto, Aosta, "Northeast", Bergamo(totally on top of the alps!) don't have it to same extent(less than 3%).
As they should given we are in the same ball park of Near Eastern DNA. French DNA doesn't eliminate the Near Eastern DNA.
The value I had before:
49% ENF, 10.5% Near Eastern, 32.5% Steppe and 8% extra WHG
Are directly comparable to Ligurian(although the Ligurian sample is just one and has weird Berber-like admixture, so whatever):
49.5% ENF, 13% Near Eastern+Berber, 29% Steppe and 8.5% WHG
And Piedmont:
55% ENF, 8.5% Near Eastern, 32% Steppe and 4.5% WHG
Tuscany is not that far:
54% ENF, 13% Near Eastern, 29% Steppe and 3% WHG
While on the other hand, Veneto looks like this:
57% ENF, 2.5% Near Eastern, 33% Steppe and 7.5% WHG
And Trentino like this:
57% ENF, 36% Steppe and 7% WHG
Are all those sample from Italy invalid? Should we have the family history of all the peolpe there back to the late antique period? Should we arbitrarily exclude some samples? Honestly we are running in circles just because you are really stubborn about technicalities and non-issues.