Who are the Dutch most closely related to genetically?

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How closely are they related genetically to people from Sweden and Norway? What makes them different from ethnic Swedes and Norwegians genetically?

The ethnic Swedish and Norwegians are a very closely related people of the Northern Germanic linguistic group. There is not much of a difference (genetically), all I can say is that Swedish people might have only slightly more genes from Finland and Northern Siberia region and that of Eastern Europe. This would obviously be linked to the geographical location of Sweden which is in a way "sandwiched" between Norway and Finland. Or else they are practically the same people. However, if we separated the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish genetically, we see that the "most Scandinavian" on a genetic scale are the Norwegian and the "least Scandinavian" are Danish folks. The people of Finland are on genetic scale not Scandinavian but they have the highest admixtures of Scandinavian genes outside of the Scandinavian core group (Norway, Sweden, Denmark)!

Finnish genome:
61% (Finland & Northern Siberia)
19% (Scandinavia)
11% (Eastern Europe)
7% (Central Asia)

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Drenthe is where my Dutch ancestors came from. They came from a village called Hees. Not far from a different village called Ruinen.

Drenthe is part of the Northern Netherlands region. So Dutch people from that province have a higher percentage of blonde hair and blue eyes than the national average for the Netherlands. Other Northern Dutch provinces are Friesland and Groningen.

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Flemish, Danes, Germans, English.