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The Basques were one of the examples I had in mind exactly, as they have such high level of WHG although they aren't a northen population though very much western. If I had to give labels (shaky as they are) I'd assume the "northern" label goes to the Steppe component if anything. Thanks for...

Pax Augusta, please help me understand. WHG was the main ancestral component of most of Europe from Scandinavia to southern Iberia at some point so there's nothing inherently "northern" in that (surely not phenotypically, going by the facial reconstruction of WHG). It just happens that modern...

Who were these C./N. European like outliers in your opinion? We already know with a good degree of certainty that the aegean/caucasian signal was from people living further south in the peninsula (originally from Greece or Anatolia).

Call it "MENA" you might as well call it "Claudette", that is not what it is.

I'm keeping an open mind and looking forward to seeing what the ancient DNA of the Italic peoples living north to the Picenes will reveal.

What are your IA predecessors out of curiosity?

Thast should definitely open interesting scenarios for modern Italians carrying that marker.

Not at all my friend!

Of course, I've learnt that the Etruscans were genetically similar to the other IA Italics and many of them were R1b, I just didn't expect (because of what I've read about this subclade of R1b) that any of them, or any other IA Italic for that matter, would come up as U106+. Cool. :)

One Etruscan was tested U106+? How interesting, thanks for the information.

Agreed, that also confirms my comment that the percentage of blonds in the Aosta Valley should probably be lower than that shown for Alto Adige.

After all it wouldn't look good on them to name one part of the peninsula "Gallia" (Gauls-free or not).

Of course you're right, what part of northern Italy hasn't after all. Yet the phenotypical difference is quite apparent between native "unmixed" Aostans and South Tyroleans for example, whereas the former's phenotypes blend with much more continuity with their immediate neighbours of Piemonte...

Above 20% looks "generous" for Aosta Valley. Of course it's based only on my personal experience in that region (substantial as it may be), so make of that what you will...

I see very few Scandinavian looking types (let's say Haaland-like) in northern Italy and most of those very few would probably be confined to Alto Adige. Then again, I see very few Iranian-Anatolian types in northern Italy and I've been reading that this should be one of the main genetic...