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.
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.
I heard that predicting some phenotypes is really troublesome, specially in ancient populations, because we don't know all that genes that make the skin or eye color for example, so you can get some absurd results like one of the todays most white people in europe being predict to have one of the darkest skin color in europe, and some other cases, so you can imagine that in ancient times the genes that make you have some phenotypes like white skin and blue eyes could be ones that we don't know yet, and the majority of white people today may have them plus some new ones that we know about
Miscgenation confirmed, it's so over for us Nordic-Latin mutts
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.
I've seen people present their ancestry in that way, but they could have done the analysis themselves using raw data.
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.
I heard that predicting some phenotypes is really troublesome, specially in ancient populations, because we don't know all that genes that make the skin or eye color for example, so you can get some absurd results like one of the todays most white people in europe being predict to have one of the darkest skin color in europe, and some other cases, so you can imagine that in ancient times the genes that make you have some phenotypes like white skin and blue eyes could be ones that we don't know yet, and the majority of white people today may have them plus some new ones that we know about