Is R1a underestimated in Romania ?

[Jana]

The Romanian dna project has a very high rate of ethnic minorities, around 25% of their project, possibly higher are Jewish diaspora from America. Would be interesting to see how much higher their R1a would be without such members.

In this thread almost every second Romanian is R1a, and it is super common in Wallachian samples too.
https://anthrogenica.com/showthread....manian-23andme

On TA quite a few Romanian members belong to R1a.

So could the real number be higher than what official estimates say ?

[Seya]

On TA i think only Carpat is R1a

[Jana]

On TA i think only Carpat is R1a

Aherne and Zmey (if you count him) too

[Nurzat]

the friends I tested with back in 2011, both from Moldova region (paternal Botoșani county and Neamț county) are R1a1a.

here are the YDNA hg of my Romanian matches on GedMATCH, I seem to only get these 6 ones in my top 500 (I'd like to find a way to filter out the Americans and the Canadians, they fill my list because of my Ukrainian side, a lot of Western Ukrainians migrated to North America a century ago, at the collapse of the Austrian Empire):

3x I2a2
1x R1b1b2a1a1
1x E-M5021
1x E-M35

[Jana]

^^^thanks

On 23andme and gedmatch almost 80% of my Croat matches are I2-din.
So I think 35% of I2a in Croatia is big underestimation too, I think it is much more than that and that we are much more homogenous.
Previous studies gave us more I2a and it went down with every single update.

[Seya]

Aherne and Zmey (if you count him) too

Aherne is german, has german father and zmey is from republic of moldova

[Jana]

Aherne is german, has german father and zmey is from republic of moldova

His type of R1a has nothing to do with Germanic people though, but has subclade common for eastern europe. It could be local.
From what I remember he cluster with Serbs like typical Translvanian Romanian

[Seya]

His type of R1a has nothing to do with Germanic people though, but has subclade common for eastern europe. It could be local.
From what I remember he cluster with Serbs like typical Translvanian Romanian

Well i’m sure there are a lot of R1a in Germany too but could be

[Dragoon]

They have less R1a than I thought.

[Ayetooey]

Checked relative list.

R1a=2
R1b-L23=1
J2a=1
J2b=1