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Skin, eye and hair color in 63 Illyrian, Thracian and Mycenaean BA/IA genomes, inferred with HIrisPlex-S. Pastebin with sample IDs, cultural labels, phenotype calls, probabilities, and full classifications:
pastebin.com/DYnjFrSd
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This is Davidski Albanian.HO reference who are most likely an East Med rich subset of Tosks. They aren't representative of Albanians in any form or way. The average Albanian does not score 30%+ East Med and core Southern Illyrian BA-IA ancestry is usually in the 60-70% range.
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The problem with modern Y-DNA Datasets:
Y-DNA difference between Self Reported Russians from Yfull, Russia total from Yfull, and Russia total from FTDNA.
Both the totals show a massive overrepresentation of Haplogroups such as J2a, J1, and J2b, as well as G and E, due to a sampling bias of Jewish and Caucasian testers who usually test alot more than average Russians.
Meanwhile, the Self Reported label is as the name says, Self Reported. It could contain Americans, Russogermans, or anyone else choosing, or choosing not to, to self-identify as Russian on Yfull.
Neither can accurately reflect the true Y-DNA proportions of Modern Russia, however Self Reported is closer to the truth.
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Bronze and Iron Age Y-DNA distribution among the Illyrians of Dalmatia (n=26): 88.5% belong to haplogroup J-L283, mainly under the Z597 branch. The remaining 11.5% belong to haplogroup R-M269, comprising Z2103, one low-coverage sample resolved only to the L23 level, and PF7589.
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Relatively new study on the the population of the Catacomb culture of the Volga-Manych steppes.
This study introduces for the first time a series of 138 individuals obtained during the study of Kurgan-type burial sites in the Republic of Kalmykia between 1962 and 2024.
96 male and 42 female skeletons were analyzed.
Average body height values were 170.7 cm for men and 157.5 cm for women.
sci.ru/articles/64932
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One hundred and ten individuals were sampled for ancient DNA, including 155 individuals from three contemporary and one Iron Age site from the Rhineland as well as one contemporary site from France
db-thueringen.de/servlets/MC…
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Cannabis was used as an intoxicant as early as 2,800 years ago.
The tomb belongs to high-ranking members of Scythian society, a horse-riding culture of the Eurasian steppe.
Siberian burial site reveals ancient use of cannabis as an intoxicant reut.rs/48ACuSO
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1480 Otranto kuşatmasından 8 Osmanlı askerine yapılan DNA analizi sonucunda 7 askerin hristiyan/devşirme kökenli olduğu ve 1 askerinde çingene kökenli olduğu ortaya çıkmış .
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Super excited to share our two papers published in Nature today! 🧬 We use ancient genomics to explore how Germanic and Celtic languages spread across Europe. Here's a video of our findings, produced by Nicolas Delgado Clausen!
youtube.com/watch?v=gyxAROOa…
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Today we're sharing with you all the name of the next Elder Scrolls title (did you guess correctly?).
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It’s not all about polygenic scores.
Some striking population differences involve particular variants, whole-gene deletions or extra gene copies.
Here are examples involving appearance, alcohol reactions, digestion and parasite defence. 🧵
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Y-DNA and MtDNA of Early Medieval Saxony-Anhalt Slavs.
Although migration period sampling is very scarce these represent the main patrilineages of Prague-Korchak upon arrival.
Chart style inspired by @Maptysk
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Data is available.
"Genetic genealogy meets ancient DNA: resolving genealogical uncertainty and identification in the case of the medieval King William II of the Roman Empire"
ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/P…
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There will be a aDNA study on the Greek/Eastern Mediterranean component in Italy with 500 new samples.
iris.uniroma1.it/handle/1157…
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Reconstructed face of a 2,000 years old Roman soldier.
Who was this brutally murdered man? The researchers think he was more likely to have been a regular soldier than an officer.
At around 1.90 metres, the man was surprisingly tall for the time and very muscular. Archaeologists in the early 1980s therefore suggested that he might have been a Frisian. The latest dating methods led the team to a different conclusion: isotopes in the man’s tooth enamel indicate a childhood spent in Southern Europe.
universiteitleiden.nl/en/new…
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Early Gravettian genomic data from Western Europe reveal population movements before the LGM
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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PCA Projection of the main Imenkovo clusters taken from Leonid Vyazov’s video essay and qpAdm BA-IA Modeling
Cluster A is closest to what Early Kiev would’ve looked like although it and B have excess Iranic ancestry possibly from the preceeding Late Sarmatian burials in the area
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Contrasting demographic impacts of Roman colonization and early medieval migrations in the Iberian Peninsula
Highlights
• 245 ancient genomes revealing Roman and early medieval Iberian diversity
• Roman rule transformed Iberia into a genetically diverse population mosaic
• Eastern Mediterranean and North African ancestry spread widely in Iberia
• Migration period elites contributed ancestry without major population replacement
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
