Ancient genomes from present-day France unveil 7,000 years of its demographic history.

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Genomic studies conducted on ancient individuals across Europe have unraveled how migrations have contributed to its present genetic landscape, but the territory of present-day France has yet to be connected to the broader European picture. We generated a large dataset comprising the complete mitochondrial genomes, Y chromosome markers and genotypes on a number of nuclear loci of interest, obtained through a DNA enrichment approach, of 203 individuals sampled across present-day France over a period spanning 7,000 years, complemented with a partially overlapping dataset of 58 low-coverage genomes. This panel provides, for the first time, a high-resolution transect of the dynamics of maternal and paternal lineages in France as well as of autosomal genotypes. Both parental lineages and genomic data revealed demographic patterns in France for the Neolithic and Bronze Age transition consistent with neighboring regions with a first wave of migration of Anatolian farmers, then varying degrees of admixture with autochthonous hunter-gatherers and a second high gene flow from individuals deriving part of their ancestry from the Pontic Steppe at the onset of the Bronze Age. Our data have also highlighted the persistence of the Magdalenian heritage in hunter-gatherer populations outside Spain and thus provide arguments for an expansion of these populations at the end of the Paleolithic period, more northerly than what has been described so far. Finally, no major demographic changes were detected during the transition between the Bronze and Iron Ages.

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/PRJEB36529

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Does it show anything for French Canadians or for the regions where their ancestors came from?

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Does it show anything for French Canadians or for the regions where their ancestors came from?

No, just for French from France, not Canada. Why? It seems to me that most Québécois have some ancestors from Poitou Charente, and I think this area is modeled as central-north.

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Doing my genealogical research, most of my ancestors came from Normandy, Paris, Centre, Pays de la Loire, and Poitou Charente. I’ve heard Poitou Charente has a genetic shift towards the Aquitaine region.

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Constantine the Great 306 A.D.

"It has became increasingly difficult to defend Gaul from barbarian Franks. Those savages have multiplied and pose great threat for entire Empire"

So we can conclude that French are not natives.

French people came to Gaul in 480 A.D. as complete aliens.

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Constantine the Great 306 A.D.

"It has became increasingly difficult to defend Gaul from barbarian Franks. Those savages have multiplied and pose great threat for entire Empire"

So we can conclude that French are not natives.

French people came to Gaul in 480 A.D. as complete aliens.

Genetic study > literature

The literary blahblah matters little, the facts are there: the genetic study shows continuity with current French people since the Bronze Age.