Poll: Classify/passify Moldovans from the 2020 Olympics Team

[Ion Basescul]

Anna Dulce is so cute. her last name means "Sweet", which is also an unusual last name. her looks aren't common either but you do see such faces every now and then. maybe some extra Ottoman/Persian/Indian, who knows. good luck to all at the Olympics! I support Moldova over Romania of course I support Romania as well, but Moldova first, because of the name

It's not a common surname.

In Moldova it occurs here:

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Chișinău Municipality	33	1:23,717	3,602
Ungheni District	24	1:4,871	940
Florești District	15	1:5,986	1,047
Cahul District	10	1:12,404	2,028
Anenii Noi District	1	1:82,583	2,676
Călărași District	1	1:78,973	2,514
Cimișlia District	1	1:61,962	2,110
Edineț District	1	1:82,336	3,813
Fălești District	1	1:92,297	2,289
Hîncești District	1	1:121,682	2,014
Ialoveni District	1	1:98,888	1,818
Strășeni District	1	1:91,211	1,964

And in Romania here:

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Călărași County	145	1:2,105	361
Prahova County	95	1:7,985	1,121
Bucharest Municipality	41	1:45,777	5,306
Constanța County	35	1:19,508	3,364
Iași County	28	1:27,475	4,229
Gorj County	4	1:85,206	4,343
Botoșani County	1	1:411,106	4,185
Vâlcea County	1	1:370,256	4,382

[Komintasavalta]

Which samples are those? I mean it's pretty obvious that if you have 30 samples and 2-3 are significantly removed from the average, then something is foreign in their ancestry. Right now in Moldova 20% of the population are ethnic minorities, and very likely way more if you consider assimilation/integration.

There were only 8 Moldovan samples in the runs I posted. There are a total of 10 samples with the population name "Moldavian" in the 1240K+HO dataset, but I included at most 8 samples per population in the runs I posted. I hadn't saved the files of the earlier runs, but when I did a new run that included all 10 samples, the three samples that got the highest percentage of the Volga-Ural component were MOL-005 (36%), MOL-015 (33%), and MOL-069 (33%). The location of all 10 samples with the population name "Moldavian" was listed as "Shtefan-Vodsky district, Kaplani". The source of the samples is Jeong et al. 2019 ("The genetic history of admixture across inner Eurasia") (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31036896/).

On G25, there's also a pretty huge level of diversity among the Moldovan samples. This shows a secondary PCA based on scaled G25 coordinates:

[Ion Basescul]

There were only 8 Moldovan samples in the runs I posted. There are a total of 10 samples with the population name "Moldavian" in the 1240K+HO dataset, but I included at most 8 samples per population in the runs I posted. I hadn't saved the files of the earlier runs, but when I did a new run that included all 10 samples, the three samples that got the highest percentage of the Volga-Ural component were MOL-005 (36%), MOL-015 (33%), and MOL-069 (33%). The location of all 10 samples with the population name "Moldavian" was listed as "Shtefan-Vodsky district, Kaplani". The source of the samples is Jeong et al. 2019 ("The genetic history of admixture across inner Eurasia") (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31036896/).

On G25, there's also a pretty huge level of diversity among the Moldovan samples. This shows a secondary PCA based on scaled G25 coordinates:

These are them in K13

F. Name	N_Atlantic	Baltic	West_Med	West_Asian	East_Med	Red_Sea	South_Asian	East_Asian	Siberian	Amerindian	Oceanian	NE_African	Sub-Saharan
MOL-005	21.01	25.42	16.62	11.92	18.51	4.11	0.58	0	0	0	0.50	0.51	0.82
MOL-015	18.27	19.97	19.01	15.32	19.44	4.68	0.12	1.50	0.68	0.54	0	0	0.48
MOL-069	26.39	24.34	17.44	13.21	12.41	4.18	0	0.31	0.71	0	0.89	0	0.12

MOL-15 is the most Southern sample from Moldova labelled as Moldovan/Romanian that I have seen.
How do they score the Volga-Ural component if all of them score less East Asian/Siberian than the majority of Moldovans/Romanians? I am at the higher end scoring 4.6% for example.

[Satem]

Alexandra Emilianov is my nightmare, no eyelids and square head, East Baltid predator

[Davy Jones's Locker]

Moldovans/Romanians

Of the basic types, I think Alpine and Mediterranean are dominant. The minorities look noticeably different.

Aaron Cook didn't make it huh.