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Miscgenation confirmed, it's so over for us Nordic-Latin mutts

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I have seen those gene mapping ancestry sites advertising "Viking ancestry" and "Neanderthal ancestry" tests. They should do one for EEF/WHG/Yamnaya ancestry proportions.

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I've seen people present their ancestry in that way, but they could have done the analysis themselves using raw data.

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Oct 9, 2023
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I don't disagree. My guess is that this is an association study, and since hair colour is polygenic trait, there is likely some noise and false correlation happening here. Afaik, blonde hair emerged with the ANE peoples and came to Europe via the steppe. As you say, it could be an artefact of how they are defining 'Yamnaya' or WSH, performing a similar study on much older genomes would probably give a different result, but we don't have enough to make that work I think.

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