Ford's (Bosnian Serb) autosomal results

[ixulescu]

Most closest Balkan populations to Moldavians (both from today RM, and Moldova region from Romania) are Western Balkanites, Serbs, Bosnians and Croatians. Wallachians are close to Bulgarians, Macedonians and Greeks. Since Moldavians are half Slavs, half Balkanites, this make sense.

I would agree with this approximation: half Balkanites, half Slavs.

But Romanians are not necessarily further from Western Balkans than Moldovans, see this chart published in a PLOS One paper last year:

South Moldovans: Md-K, North Moldovans: Md-S, Romanians: Ro, Serbs: Se, Croats: Cr, Bosnians: Bo


How sampling is done still affects the results a lot.

[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić]

I would agree with this approximation: half Balkanites, half Slavs.

But Romanians are not necessarily further from Western Balkans than Moldovans, see this chart published in a PLOS One paper last year:

South Moldovans: Md-K, North Moldovans: Md-S, Romanians: Ro, Serbs: Se, Croats: Cr, Bosnians: Bo


How sampling is done still affects the results a lot.

this looks like Y DNA clustering

[ixulescu]

this looks like Y DNA clustering

that's what it is

please don't give me the bullshit that autosomal DNA clusterings are more valid.

[Not a Cop]

that's what it is

please don't give me the bullshit that autosomal DNA clusterings are more valid.

They are.

[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić]

that's what it is

please don't give me the bullshit that autosomal DNA clusterings are more valid.

Lmao ofcourse they are. Y dna tells no more than 1% of your ancestry dude

[ixulescu]

Lmao ofcourse they are. Y dna tells no more than 1% of your ancestry dude

Dude, you have no idea what you talking about.
Y chromosome is the only part of the DNA that gets passed fully from the male parent to the male child. All the rest of the DNA is a mishmash from both parents. This is the reason why we can build extremely precise phylogenetic trees on Y-DNA, and we cannot do the same with autosomal DNA.

Clusterings you get with autosomal DNA are a shit method for studying ancestry, compared to the clades of the phylogenetic tree. Autosomal DNA can only tell whether populations have acquired similar mutations. That's it. No deep ancestry can be assessed with it.

[Dick]

Ydna clustering is odd. There’s a lot of people that wouldn’t even cluster to their respective ethnicities

[Dick]

Lmao ofcourse they are. Y dna tells no more than 1% of your ancestry dude

It’s good for us balkaners to find out which tribe/clan our ancestors belonged to. As for other euros it dosnt really matter.

[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić]

Dude, you have no idea what you talking about.
Y chromosome is the only part of the DNA that gets passed fully from the male parent to the male child. All the rest of the DNA is a mishmash from both parents. This is the reason why we can build extremely precise phylogenetic trees on Y-DNA, and we cannot do the same with autosomal DNA.

Clusterings you get with autosomal DNA are a shit method for studying ancestry, compared to the clades of the phylogenetic tree. Autosomal DNA can only tell whether populations have acquired similar mutations. That's it. No deep ancestry can be assessed with it.

Completely wrong. But I guess you have no clue about genetics. According to your retarded views I would cluster with Dutch and Germans and Dick would cluster with Scandinavians.
Autosomal is your entire ancestry, it shows what you are made of and which populations are similar to you.

[Not a Cop]

It’s good for us balkaners to find out which tribe/clan our ancestors belonged to. As for other euros it dosnt really matter.

I believe it will be the same as we get more data and genealogical info, it's possible on Balkans as most people still know their tribe/clan allegation.