New study on Estonians

[Flashball]

New study on Estonians (pub. August) investigates the relationship between ancient European ancestry and modern genetic traits.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...888v1.full.pdf



WHG ancestry linked to:
- light eyes
- brown hair
- decreased height, hip circumference, cholesterol, probability of dark eyes
- increased BMI, caffeine consumption, creatine production

EEF ancestry linked to:
- light eyes
- blond hair
- decreased waist/hip ratio, heart rate, probability of black hair

Steppe EMBA (Yamnaya) ancestry linked to:
- dark eyes
- dark hair
- strong build
- increased height, waist and hip circumference, cholesterol
- decreased caffeine consumption, heart rate

[XenophobicPrussian]

New study on Estonians (pub. August) investigates the relationship between ancient European ancestry and modern genetic traits.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...888v1.full.pdf



WHG ancestry linked to:
- light eyes
- brown hair
- decreased height, hip circumference, cholesterol, probability of dark eyes
- increased BMI, caffeine consumption, creatine production

EEF ancestry linked to:
- light eyes
- blond hair
- decreased waist/hip ratio, heart rate, probability of black hair

Steppe EMBA (Yamnaya) ancestry linked to:
- dark eyes
- dark hair
- strong build
- increased height, waist and hip circumference, cholesterol
- decreased caffeine consumption, heart rate

Your summary is misleading. You're only referring to the second table on page 7, which uses the part of the genome where a handful of SNPs only thought to be related to said traits are located. In the case of Estonia, this only mean said SNPs are only correlating with people with increased EEF ancestry because north Estonians are blonder than south Estonians(who have higher WHG and affinity to Lithuanians/Latvians) and have increased EEF due to higher Swedish admixture. It has nothing to do with actual Anatolia_N, who were as dark as Yamnaya, if not darker. When you use the whole genome(which will be less accurate but is the same pattern you see on a Europe wide level rather than intra-ethnic barring a few exceptions), shown on page 5:

WHG admixture is linked with height, light eyes, blondism, less chance of black hair, less chance of dark eyes, alcoholism, creatine production. Actually, for all those traits, Yamnaya and even Siberian ancestry(they used Buryats, Evens and Koryaks which does show the second table is more accurate given these populations are almost 100% dark but your post is still misleading) is more positively correlated than Anatolia_N.

I wish they included Globular Amphora farmers, Scandinavian HGs/Baltic_HGs in this study.