I have opposed
ideas calling Neolithic Europeans Near Easterners, because all my analyses show
significant later Near Eastern admixture in Mediterranean region, clearly
differing from ancient Neolithic farmer genes.
This implied at least equal genetic change in Near East than in Europe from
the Neolithic Era to the present. How can
we call European Neolithic farmers Near Easterners if European Neolithic samples are closer modern European
than modern Near Easterners? Really, my analyses prove this. Closest European for ancient
Neolithic farmers are Albanians and Sardinians.
Albanian yDna E is one of the highest in Europe, after
Kosovo, which can predict same thing. Unfortunately Kosovo samples are
not available. It is very possible that European Neolithic
farmers came from Near East through Anatolia, but we have not yet genetic evidences
proving it and the process was probably much more complex than a simple
migration to Europe from what we now understand as Near East.
My analysis
consists of following steps:
1 pre-selection
of data (Haak et al. 2015)
2 running
PCA to find out European Neolithic genetic cluster based on ancient samples of
highest quality
3 running new
PCA and Fst-figures to see genetic distance
This is a
very simple procedure and I know well that Fst-distances obtained using ancient
genomes are not comparable to distances between modern populations due to lower
scanning quality, but I don’t even try
do it, I only compare ancient data to modern one, so possible quality problems
doesn’t exist in same extent.
Please notice also many Jewish groups I included now into my data.
PCA, click here to expand.
Fst-distances of Bedouins (BedouinB, used as a Near Eastern proxy by Haak), click here.
