Medieval Russian had Germanic admixture?

[Pandur]

I thought this was obvious lol

[Not a Cop]

There was suggestion from Davidski(?) that this sample was contaminated. He didn't use it in G25. So any discussion is useless.

Sample had high East-Euro and very low Fennoscandian, like 6% either we don't know something or it's a bit contaminated indeed.

[Peterski]

Sample had high East-Euro and very low Fennoscandian, like 6% either we don't know something or it's a bit contaminated indeed.

On the other hand this Medieval Lithuanian (DA171) with N1c had higher Fennoscandian than Bronze Age Balts:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...nnic-admixture

Which makes me think that N1c in Balts has Iron Age Finnic origin (not Scandinavian origin as some speculated).

There was suggestion from Davidski(?) that this sample was contaminated. He didn't use it in G25.

Yes, he said it is ca. 10% contaminated with modern DNA. But would that really affect the results in such a way (shifting it west)? And whose DNA contaminated it? If Russian scientists contaminated it with their own modern DNA, then it would rather make it more eastern-shifted.

So Germans from Western Poland are more western shifted than those from Eastern Germany?

Nope. I checked what I promised to check in one of previous posts:

Germans from Silesia are like a mix of ca. 35% Germans from East Germany + ca. 65% Poles:

Silesia_German

Polish_Wielkopolska,47
German_Saxony,35
Polish_Malopolska,18

And closest single populations (in this case they are closest to Polish-speaking Upper Silesians):

[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Polish_Upper-Silesia
Polish_Wielkopolska
Polish_Malopolska
German_Saxony
Polish_Lubelskie
(...)

With other models (e.g. using only Eastern Poles) I get mixes closer to 50/50 of Saxony/Poles.