Ancient DNA Reveals Prehistoric Gene-Flow from Siberia in the Complex Human Population History of No

[Pallantides]

mtDNAs are more important when it comes to define phenotypes and it correlates better with Autosomal studies from different folks.
The good thing is that you know whether a Haplogroup is "Mongoloid" or "Caucasoid"
y-DNA is too difficult. You have the Haplogroup R1b which is represented on 3 races.

my mtDNA haplogroup is found at low frequency from East Africa to Russia, so it's not always the case



Though it's classified as a West Eurasian haplogroup.

[Loki]

I hate it when they talk about "years before present". The present is ever-shifting. Thus articles like these will become outdated.

Much better is to use "BC" - a fixed point in time. I guess that's too politically incorrect

[Jackson]

I hate it when they talk about "years before present". The present is ever-shifting. Thus articles like these will become outdated.

Much better is to use "BC" - a fixed point in time. I guess that's too politically incorrect

Well present is taken as 1950, at least in regards to radiocarbon dating. Anything after 1950 is undateable using radiocarbon methods. I don't know if the same is done in other disciplines, as it doesn't need to be.

So at least with radiocarbon dating (which is one of the most common methods of dating dead material) 1950 is used as 'present' so really it is anchored. Probably they will change it in the next century to years before 1950, as it will be significantly 'not present' by then.

[evon]

my mtDNA haplogroup is found at low frequency from East Africa to Russia, so it's not always the case
Though it's classified as a West Eurasian haplogroup.

I am pretty sure that, if you had a FGS done, your sub-group would distance you from these guys...You can also check your mutations up against those found in the most recent phylotree, maybe you are lucky and 23andme have tested some that can give you a new sub-group? easiest to check using this tool.

[Pallantides]

Sometime ago I used one of those analysis tolls that found my best subclade matches, I forgot what it was but it was the same as one of those Neolithic farmers from Central Europe


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Which is utterly dull I might add, as I hoped that I'd belong to the same subclade as that Scythian mummy

[evon]

Sometime ago I used one of those analysis tolls that found my best subclade matches, I forgot what it was but it was the same as one of those Neolithic farmers from Central Europe

Meet your distant relative:

[papa diddy pop]

Meet your distant relative:

She got almost no caucasus/anatolian blood according to different admix calculators,almost only Mediterranean contrary to mainland Italian who got a lot of it .

Like this blue-eyed sardinian(supposed to come from a pretty isolated area in Sardinia called the Barbagia (barbarian country) ,area who resisted the most to invasion:

[Jackson]

my mtDNA haplogroup is found at low frequency from East Africa to Russia, so it's not always the case

True. I have supposedly Mesolithic haplogroups, but i'm slightly more neolithic influenced than the average. Should swap.

[Pallantides]

Meet your distant relative:

Isn't it a bit ironic, you have more Neolithic admixture than me, yet I'm the one stuck with a Neolithic mtDNA haplogroup while yours is much older

Then again it's just one ancestral line among many.