Pontic Greek Gedmatch results

[catgeorge]

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It could just be a coincidence, but, let me tell you...

You scored 0 East European on K36, and anybody with a recent Russian ancestor would score East European, as that's the main category of a Russian. Now, you are also closer to northern Greeks in distance than to other mainland Greeks, which is also very strange. That's why I have a feeling you could have an ancestor from northern Greece, and your family doesn't even need to know about it. Maybe I'm wrong, could just be a bunch of coincidences adding up.

His Russian grandparent could be 50% - 25% Russian. Russians don't score 100% East European they barely score 40%. It is possible he is 1/16th Russian due to dilution from his parents which would come up close to 4% EE then further dilution with Caucasian populations. Its not out of the ordinary. He scores very high west asia and east med and hightened Baltic which is normal for a person from his region. Nothing overly exotic about it at all.

[Faklon]

-Guy says he's fully from Pontus
-Shows some affinity to Greece proper unlike the results Durks spam and he still comes highly Anatolian
-This is a win, not a problem

[Bosniensis]

Another Korean sample, welcome to Turanic paradise... now you can learn throat singing and move to Pamir and Altaic mountains without being judged.

[Tauromachos]

Russopontians are at least 25% native Russian and different to Crimean Greeks.

Indeed they are often mixed with Rus and some even look Slavic lol

[brennus dux gallorum]

Ok here me out.

Greeks have a lot of variety. Pontic Greeks are the most outlying in the sense that they are the closest to Lazs and Armenians but they are distinct from them in the sense that they show "Mediterranean" shift. This situation is to be expected since Pontus is the farthest Greek region from the core and doesn't have land borders with any other Greek region, so the initial Greek colonizers couldn't be a lot since they have to have traveled by sea(as we also know through history). These colonizers quickly Hellenized the local population and developed the modern Pontic Greek profile.

Now so far the Pontic Greek results that floated around were much closer to Lazs and Armenians than yours. Essentially that means you show much more Mainland Greek shift. Since genetics is underdeveloped in Greece most results are provided by "barbarians" It is my personal opinion(and only that, so I may well be wrong) that there's a big agenda towards Greeks. Your results are illuminating in that they are both very Mainland Greek shifted and at the same time show a Steppe affinity that is supposed to have been mostly introduced to Greeks through Slavic invasions. I have my strong doubts about that and am long in search of Asia Minor, and other non-core Greek areas' results to investigate that.

Be prepared to here stories how a "Slavic-influenced Mainlander Greek village" decided to migrate to your Pontic Greek villages and influence your results. If you have any questions I'm very happy to answer.

lol that's the most decent way someone has told a pontic Greek guy that Pontic Greeks are native west asians with an amount of Greek admixture

still very Greek mixed for a Pontic person

[Fedora]

You score higher North European than the average Anatolian and Pontic Greek. I've seen similar turkish results. Interesting, you should test your fully pontic side or both of your parents to get a better picture imo

[Tauromachos]

Another Korean sample, welcome to Turanic paradise... now you can learn throat singing and move to Pamir and Altaic mountains without being judged.

Pontic Greeks have nothing to do with this kind of stuff^

[Bosniensis]

Pontic Greeks have nothing to do with this kind of stuff^

he 1. Turk duh

oeoeoeoeoeooeoooooooo

[Roman-Anatolian]

Another Korean sample, welcome to Turanic paradise... now you can learn throat singing and move to Pamir and Altaic mountains without

Judged by whom?...bosniak?...what is that, a fart of Europe or something?

[Bosniensis]

Judged by whom?...bosniak?...what is that, a fart of Europe or something?

Better fart of Europe than fart of Mongolia.