British people: genetically closer to Russians or closer to Iberians?

[cyberlorian]

Please discuss.

[Myanthropologies]

Russians, by far

[Agyullámtörő]

British = germanized celts
Spaniards = romanized celts
http://i.imgur.com/GLL0M9y.png

[michal3141]

In terms of autosomal DNA slightly more closer to Spanish populations (comparing English):

> getMonte('spanish_russian.txt', 'english.txt')
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Spanish_Pais_Vasco Spanish_Cataluna
6.584718 6.596423
Spanish_Cantabria Spanish_Valencia
6.712558 6.973866
Spanish_Aragon Spanish_Baleares
6.974450 7.011716
Basque_Spanish Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon
7.231609 7.257469
Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha Spanish_Galicia
7.300779 7.588122
Spanish_Andalucia Russian_Voronez
7.659161 7.673761
Russian_Orel Spanish_Murcia
7.709806 7.780990
Spanish_Extremadura Russian_Kursk
7.791194 7.939428
Russian_Smolensk Russian_Tver
7.943461 8.412617
Russian_Kostroma Spanish_Canarias
9.060343 10.071690
Russian_Pinega
11.496717

Compared to Southern Spaniards (Spanish_Andalucia, Spanish_Murcia) the distance is almost the same as to Slavic Russian populations (Russian_Voronez, Russian_Orel, Russian_Kursk).

EDIT: This is based on Davidski's Global 25 coordinates.

[Krivich]

All Germans and Western Europeans are closer to the Spanish than to the Slavs. Apparently, the Iberian admixture is what distinguishes Western Europe from the East.

[cyberlorian]

All Germans and Western Europeans are closer to the Spanish than to the Slavs. Apparently, the Iberian admixture is what distinguishes Western Europe from the East.

Cristiano Viejo will like that.

[Bellbeaking]

English are roughly equal maybe slightly closer to northern Spanish regions (except basques). The Irish, Welsh and Scottish and Northern England are all closer to Russia

[Septentrion]

Please discuss.

Take a look genetic distance, as they far away from both groups genetically.

[Petalpusher]

They are closer to Spain mostly because Russians have that more or less significant drift eastwards due to various E.Eurasian type of admixtures. In the same way they would be closer to southern Scandinavians than say North Swedes.

[Flashball]

Not everything works in terms of "who is closer to whom?" ', Because sometimes populations are equidistant.

This is the limit of the comparison with limited data.

It's like taking an ancient Egyptian sample and comparing it to a Venetian and Sub-Saharan sample, then saying: the ancient Egyptian sample is closer to the Venetian than to the Sub-Saharan!

Yes, if we only limit ourselves to two samples of populations...