Genetic proximity of Slovenians to other European nations

[SlavStepper]

Hi guys. I wanted to ask which nations are Slovenians the closest to genetically. Thank you for your answers

[Alenka]

[Jana]

North Croats are closest, but when considering only whole nation averages Hungarians are closest, here is the list:

[SlavStepper]

Thank you for your answers. Strange seeing that Ukrainians and Poles are quite distant, on a reddit post I saw on the topic Ukrainians and Poles were one of the closest nations(by Y-DNA).

[Alenka]

Thank you for your answers. Strange seeing that Ukrainians and Poles are quite distant, on a reddit post I saw on the topic Ukrainians and Poles were one of the closest nations(by Y-DNA).

Y-DNA similarity is limited to relationships along strictly the direct male line. Y-DNA looks only at the Y-chromosome, which is inherited father to son, and so can only be taken by males to explore their direct paternal line. MtDNA and Y-DNA is utilized to identify archeological cultures and migration paths of a person's ancestors along a strict mother's line or a strict father's line.

Stearsolina and I posted autosomal similarity. Autosomal testing looks at chromosomes from 1 to 22 and X. The autosomes (chromosomes 1–22) are inherited from both parents and all recent ancestors. Ethnicity estimates are mostly concluded with this autosomal sort of testing.

[Jana]

Thank you for your answers. Strange seeing that Ukrainians and Poles are quite distant, on a reddit post I saw on the topic Ukrainians and Poles were one of the closest nations(by Y-DNA).

Actually they aren't that distant considering both are northern Slavs and Slovenes are south Slavs, they are still closer to you than Montenegrins, or Macedonians/Bulgarians who don't even make it to top 15 closest nation for Slovenians.

[cass]

Y-DNA similarity is limited to relationships along strictly the direct male line. Y-DNA looks only at the Y-chromosome, which is inherited father to son, and so can only be taken by males to explore their direct paternal line. MtDNA and Y-DNA is utilized to identify archeological cultures and migration paths of a person's ancestors along a strict mother's line or a strict father's line.

Stearsolina and I posted autosomal similarity. Autosomal testing looks at chromosomes from 1 to 22 and X. The autosomes (chromosomes 1–22) are inherited from both parents and all recent ancestors. Ethnicity estimates are mostly concluded with this autosomal sort of testing.

Slavic male-dominated invasion.

[Chris596]

I thought I'm close to Slovenians, but not really. No wonder why they are close to regular Hungarians, because I'm not. Sometimes these things surprise me

(for those who don't know, I'm a very Balkan shifted Hungarian)

[SlavStepper]

But how Slavic are Slovenes genetically on average? Would you say about the same as North Slavic nations such as Slovaks, Ukrainians or Czechs?

[Alenka]

But how Slavic are Slovenes genetically on average? Would you say about the same as North Slavic nations such as Slovaks, Ukrainians or Czechs?

To find out how Slavic these various populations are, and how they compare, see Stearsolina's thead with Balto-Slavic scale:
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...o-Slavic-scale

Target: Slovenian
Distance: 1.0270% / 0.01026978 | ADC: 0.25x

64.2 Slavic
20.0 Balkan
6.4 Celtic
5.4 Germanic
4.0 Greco-Roman

Target: Ukrainian
Distance: 1.0938% / 0.01093765 | ADC: 0.25x

93.2 Slavic
5.6 Baltic
1.2 Greco-Roman

As you can see, Ukrainians are in a different league, way more Slavic. Of all modern populations, Ukrainians are likely the ones closest to proto-Slavs.


Slovaks are also quite considerably more Slavic than Slovenes:

Target: Slovakian
Distance: 1.9145% / 0.01914454 | ADC: 0.25x

84.2 Slavic
10.8 Balkan
4.2 Germanic
0.8 Baltic



Populations more comparable to the Slovenian amount of Slavic (64.2) are rather the following:

Target: Bosnian
Distance: 1.3965% / 0.01396526 | ADC: 0.25x

63.6 Slavic
23.0 Balkan
13.4 Greco-Roman

Target: Croatian
Distance: 0.8581% / 0.00858078 | ADC: 0.25x

63.4 Slavic
16.8 Balkan
10.2 Germanic
9.6 Greco-Roman

Target: Cossack_Kuban
Distance: 2.5871% / 0.02587057 | ADC: 0.25x

66.0 Slavic
20.2 Baltic
11.6 Finnic
2.2 Turkic

Target: Czech
Distance: 1.1885% / 0.01188460 | ADC: 0.25x

56.6 Slavic
34.2 Germanic
5.2 Balkan
2.6 Greco-Roman
1.4 Celtic


Target: Russian_Kostroma
Distance: 1.1661% / 0.01166087 | ADC: 0.25x

59.6 Slavic
20.4 Finnic
20.0 Baltic

Target: Sorb_Niederlausitz
Distance: 1.9298% / 0.01929826 | ADC: 0.25x

67.0 Slavic
18.2 Baltic
14.8 Balkan

To find out more, check out her thread to see the entire list of populations, it's interesring and informative.