Are Poles closer to Czechs and Slovaks or to East Slavs?

[Jana]

Phenotype comparison


Poland






Czech Republic






Slovakia






Russia






Ukraine






Belarus

[Cumansky]

In single closest population most north I seen Pole was Lithuanian, Estonian (Estonian full of Ukrs and Rus)

The most south was Bosnian, Romanian

[Cumansky]

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Peterski some of the Czechs have big German component tho they are not all the same

[Satem]

I wonder what does Magnolia has to say about this.

I think it is too obvious

[pulstar]

I'd say culture-wise Poles are closer to Czechs and Slovaks, while they might be genetically more related to East Slavs but that's quite irrelevant.

[Rob1992]

I'd say culture-wise Poles are closer to Czechs and Slovaks, while they might be genetically more related to East Slavs but that's quite irrelevant.

Since the early 16th century Poland belongs culturally to Eastern Europe. This can be seen in fashion, warfare and mindset in general.

[Karol Klačansky]

an average for the polish nation puts them genetically slightly closer to belorusians and ukrainians compared to czechs and slovaks, but they arent on average very distant from either czechs or slovaks, especially not slovaks. North eastern slovaks from spis area are very close to poles genetically and obviously regions like wielkopolska and southern polish regions are closer to czechs and slovaks than to eastern slavs. Most poles these days have ancestry from form eastern slavic regions, if that werent the case theyd probably overall be closer to czechs and slovaks.

[cass]

North eastern slovaks from spis area are very close to poles genetically

I am NOT surprised at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOt7gBbYBQg

[Mingle]

According to Global25 distances genetically Poles are closest to Ukrainians, then Southern Russians, Sorbs and Belarusians. Then come Slovaks but the difference is not big:

> getMonte('Global_25_PCA_pop_averages_scaled.txt', 'Polish.txt')
[1] "1. CLOSEST SINGLE ITEM DISTANCE%"
Polish1 Ukrainian
0.000000 1.011484
HUN_Avar_Szolad Russian_Voronez
1.630492 1.717779
Russian_Orel Sorb_Niederlausitz
1.832130 1.881539
Cossack_Ukrainian Russian_Smolensk
1.998054 2.090743
Belarusian RUS_Sunghir_MA
2.138159 2.253362
Russian_Kursk Slovakian
2.260559 2.287775
Czech CZE_Early_Slav
2.486398 3.118426
Russian_Tver German_East
3.131693 3.185404

Of course Polish is considered a West Slavic language with Slovak and Czech. We are also using Latin script which is another similarity with Slovaks and Czechs.

I don't really know.

Which region are the G25 samples from? Are they representative of the entire Polish nation? Cause there are many Poles that are closer to Czechs and Slovaks and the Polish reference on GEDmatch is more eastern shifted than average.

[cass]

North eastern slovaks from spis area are very close to poles genetically

I am NOT surprised at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOt7gBbYBQg