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15 Jan 2009
Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]
Hello everyone,
For those interested where Poles place in terms of intra-European and inter-continental genetic structure, please refer to my blog. You'll find there many links to latest studies and my commentary on them. Here's an examle...
polishgenes.blogspot
^ Here's a diagram from the above mentioned study, illustrating the genetic position of Poles compared to other Europeans, as well as the Han Chinese, Japanese and Nigerians.
Simon C Heath, Investigation of the fine structure of European populations with applications to disease association studies, doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.210
Hello everyone,
For those interested where Poles place in terms of intra-European and inter-continental genetic structure, please refer to my blog. You'll find there many links to latest studies and my commentary on them. Here's an examle...
Polish, European and world samples compared using almost 400,000 genome wide markers
Anyway, this study does have some very neat tables showing the relative affinity of the groups to each other. Spaniards exhibit the strongest links to the African sample, the Yoruba from Nigeria. On the other hand, its the Russians who are relatively closest to the Asians from China and Japan. Moreover, some individuals from France, Great Britain, Romania and Germany are also being pulled towards the non-Europeans, possibly indicating some sort of admixture? Hard to say, because the study doesn't really focus on that. Interestingly, the Poles' affinity to the Africans and Asians is rather weak in comparison to that shown by most of the other European groups.
On a final note, it's curious that unlike previous studies of this sort, the main gradient here is the one running from west to east, and not north to south. I suspect a lack of samples form Itlay and the southern Balkans is largely the reason for that.
Anyway, this study does have some very neat tables showing the relative affinity of the groups to each other. Spaniards exhibit the strongest links to the African sample, the Yoruba from Nigeria. On the other hand, its the Russians who are relatively closest to the Asians from China and Japan. Moreover, some individuals from France, Great Britain, Romania and Germany are also being pulled towards the non-Europeans, possibly indicating some sort of admixture? Hard to say, because the study doesn't really focus on that. Interestingly, the Poles' affinity to the Africans and Asians is rather weak in comparison to that shown by most of the other European groups.
On a final note, it's curious that unlike previous studies of this sort, the main gradient here is the one running from west to east, and not north to south. I suspect a lack of samples form Itlay and the southern Balkans is largely the reason for that.
polishgenes.blogspot
^ Here's a diagram from the above mentioned study, illustrating the genetic position of Poles compared to other Europeans, as well as the Han Chinese, Japanese and Nigerians.
Simon C Heath, Investigation of the fine structure of European populations with applications to disease association studies, doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.210