I recently took a DNA test to explore my Turkish ancestry and determine if my maternal grandfather was of Tatar heritage. People had been asking my grandfather and my aunts if they're Tatar or Central Asian because of their phenotype. Andronovo-Turanid and Pontid are dominant on my maternal...
In the thread about the distribution of R1b-Z2103, I started analysing the Y-DNA data from the new Trofimova et al. 2015 paper in Russian (English summary here). I noticed that the Volga-Ural ethnic groups could be divided in four categories:
1) Uralic speakers with over 50% of Uralic Y-DNA...
I have added new populations in the Y-DNA tables: the island of Gotland in Sweden, the Saami (Finland+Sweden+Norway), and the six main ethnic groups of the Volga-Ural region in Russia: the Chuvashs, Komi, Mari, Mordvins, Tatars, and Udmurts.
Gotland distinguishes itself by its extremely high...
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