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The genetic link is there. The Macedonians are closest to Bulgarians, then the Romanians, and after them usually is a tossup between Albanians and Serbs. We are quite distant from core Mediterranean populations like the Italians, Albanians or even southern Greek populations. The same plots, however, ALWAYS show all three peoples together almost as if we descended from a core population but adopted different cultures and languages later on.
The Greeks have ancient Macedonian descent because they continue their culture and language. We don't. The addition of Pontic Greeks to the argument is irrelevant as there were Greek majority populations already living in historical Macedonia before the arrival of the first refugee. The Pontics also likely descend from an older colonial Greek population.
Furthermore, Macedonia was depopulated of Slavic speakers after the reconquest from the invasions until the Ottoman years. The Slavs only began to grow again in the 18th century and likely moved into Macedonia.
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