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Published yesterday, the oldest R1a-M417 so far (M417 is ancestral to all Indo-European R1a):
http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/19/135616
http://www.biorxiv.org/highwire/file.../135616-2.xlsx
I6561, Alexandria, Ukraine, 3500 BC, Y DNA R1a1a1 M417, mtDNA H2a1a.
Alexandria (1 individual). An Eneolithic cemetery of the Sredny Stog II culture was excavated by D. Telegin in 1955-1957 near the village of Alexandria, Kupyansk district, Kharkov region on the left bank of the river Oskol.105 A total of 33 individuals were recovered.106 Based on craniometric analysis (I.Potekhina 1999) it was suggested that the Eneolithic inhabitants of Alexandria were not homogeneous and resulted from admixture of local Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers, possibly Trypillian groups.107 We report genetic data from one individual: I6561.
Autosomally he could be similar to the later Central European Corded Ware culture individuals because it seems, that he already had Neolithic Farmer admixture (from Trypillian culture).
His mtDNA probably points also to the presence of CHG admixture.
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