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Modern Ukrainians and Russians are genetically closer to Bronze Age Hungary and Poland, than to Bronze Age Ukraine and Russia. Since Hungary and Poland are more to the west than Ukraine and Russia, it means that modern East Slavs are more genetically western than ancient people in the same area. This in turn indicates, that the Proto-Slavic homeland could be located to the west of modern East Slavic lands, close to the Carpathians. Bronze Age Hungarians played a role in Slavic ethnogenesis:
http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2016/0...t-sharing.html
Eight (8) closest ancient samples (out of 260) for modern Ukrainians:- Elevated segment sharing between BR2 and present-day speakers of Baltic and Slavic languages suggests that BR2, or his close relatives, contributed genealogically in a significant way to the Balto-Slavic expansions that affected most of East Central and Eastern Europe during the Iron Age and early Medieval period.
UKRAINE WEST (Lviv region):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCES"
BA_Hungary_RISE479 BA_Hungary_BR1 EBA_Poland_PLN17
17.69045 17.94963 18.64209
BA_Srubnaya_I0232 BA_Andronovo_RISE505 BA_Unetice_Germany_I0116
19.43097 20.33506 20.44822
BA_Sintashta_RISE395 EBA_Russia_RISE555
20.51182 20.88633
UKRAINE CENTRAL (Kiev region):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCES"
BA_Hungary_RISE479 BA_Hungary_BR1 EBA_Poland_PLN17
15.73394 19.65019 20.40778
EBA_Russia_RISE555 BA_Srubnaya_I0232 BA_Andronovo_RISE505
21.95788 22.17746 23.17919
BA_Sintashta_RISE395 LBA_Hungary_BR2
23.68029 23.68882
UKRAINE NORTH (Chernigov region):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCES"
BA_Hungary_RISE479 EBA_Poland_PLN17 BA_Hungary_BR1
16.71324 21.00146 21.83033
EBA_Russia_RISE555 BA_Srubnaya_I0232 BA_Andronovo_RISE505
22.75558 23.89004 24.58657
BA_Sintashta_RISE395 BA_Andronovo_RISE500
24.75729 25.28548
UKRAINE NORTH-EAST (Kharkiv region):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCES"
BA_Hungary_RISE479 EBA_Poland_PLN17 BA_Hungary_BR1
15.85700 21.11558 21.37875
EBA_Russia_RISE555 BA_Srubnaya_I0232 BA_Unetice_Germany_I0116
22.87360 23.41731 24.24775
BA_Andronovo_RISE505 BA_Andronovo_RISE500
24.28197 24.69277
UKRAINE POLTAVA region:
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCES"
BA_Hungary_RISE479 BA_Hungary_BR1 EBA_Poland_PLN17
15.70514 19.18195 20.04723
BA_Srubnaya_I0232 EBA_Russia_RISE555 LBA_Hungary_BR2
22.25048 22.61440 22.66699
BA_Unetice_Germany_I0116 BA_Sintashta_RISE395
23.03811 23.24505
UKRAINE ZAKARPATTIA (Rusyns):
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCES"
BA_Hungary_BR1 BA_Hungary_RISE479 LBA_Hungary_BR2
14.54635 15.34766 17.98312
EBA_Poland_PLN17 IA_Wielbark_Poland_Kow45 IA_GaulishCelt_6DRIF22
21.54559 22.16655 22.39734
BA_Unetice_Germany_I0116 BA_Srubnaya_I0232
22.83922 23.31624
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