How are people getting such low numbers on the Single mode when these are ancient, supposedly distant samples?
[TABLE="class: distances"]
[TR]
[TH="align: right"]Distance to:[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Nicu[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FFA800, align: right"]10.05644569[/TD]
[TD]Late_Medieval_Latium_(n=16)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF7F00, align: right"]11.27917107[/TD]
[TD]6th-century_Piedmont_(Italians_&_Lombards)_(n=24)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF5900, align: right"]12.37316855[/TD]
[TD]Western_Scythians_(n=28)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF4E00, align: right"]12.70523514[/TD]
[TD]Bronze_Age_Illyrians[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF2700, align: right"]13.84101875[/TD]
[TD]Medieval_Foggia_Apulia_(n=5)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0800, align: right"]14.75679166[/TD]
[TD]Early_Iron_Age_Croatia_(n=9)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0500, align: right"]14.86152078[/TD]
[TD]Medieval_Tuscany_(n=10)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0300, align: right"]14.89718094[/TD]
[TD]Early_Medieval_Latium_(n=5)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0012, align: right"]15.52592348[/TD]
[TD]Late_Antiquity_Latium_(n=24)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0021, align: right"]15.96748571[/TD]
[TD]Early_Bronze_Age_Serbia_(n=23)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0021, align: right"]15.97754049[/TD]
[TD]Bell_Beaker_Hungary_(n=6)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF002A, align: right"]16.22885701[/TD]
[TD]Early_Iron_Age_Hungary_(n=9)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0036, align: right"]16.57700516[/TD]
[TD]Villanovans_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0039, align: right"]16.67520914[/TD]
[TD]Ostrogoths_(n=3)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0055, align: right"]17.49727407[/TD]
[TD]Early_Iron_Age_Slovenia_(n=10)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF005E, align: right"]17.75346163[/TD]
[TD]Medieval_Basilicata_(n=10)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0062, align: right"]17.89321380[/TD]
[TD]6th-century_Piedmont_(Italians_only)_(n=7)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF0068, align: right"]18.04430381[/TD]
[TD]Imperial-age_Marche_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF008F, align: right"]19.21437743[/TD]
[TD]Roman_&_Visigothic_Iberia_(n=31)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF00A0, align: right"]19.69899236[/TD]
[TD]Medieval_Catalonia_Valencia_(n=9)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF00BC, align: right"]20.53302705[/TD]
[TD]Bell_Beaker_Poland_(n=6)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF00BF, align: right"]20.60836723[/TD]
[TD]La_Tène_Celts_(n=55)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF00DC, align: right"]21.47164875[/TD]
[TD]Etruscans_(n=48)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF00DC, align: right"]21.47843803[/TD]
[TD]Middle_Bronze_Age_North_Alps_(n=7)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #FF00DE, align: right"]21.53327193[/TD]
[TD]Bell_Beaker_Bavaria/Saxony_(n=20)[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
The 2-Way did yield closer results though
[TABLE="class: distances"]
[TR]
[TH="align: right"]Distance to:[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Nicu[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #51FF00, align: right"]2.38193858[/TD]
[TD]44.80% Middle_Bronze_Age_Anatolia_(n=2) + 55.20% Vikings_from_Russia_(n=15)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #53FF00, align: right"]2.44405125[/TD]
[TD]45.00% Middle_Bronze_Age_Anatolia_(n=2) + 55.00% Vikings_from_Poland_(n=9)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #59FF00, align: right"]2.60419023[/TD]
[TD]43.20% Middle_Bronze_Age_Anatolia_(n=2) + 56.80% Vikings_from_Ukraine_(n=4)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #60FF00, align: right"]2.82253115[/TD]
[TD]43.60% Middle_Bronze_Age_Anatolia_(n=2) + 56.40% Avars_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #73FF00, align: right"]3.38195041[/TD]
[TD]54.20% Italian_Greeks_(n=2) + 45.80% Avars_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #73FF00, align: right"]3.38792122[/TD]
[TD]53.40% Middle_Bronze_Age_Anatolia_(n=2) + 46.60% Medieval_Estonia_(n=7)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #74FF00, align: right"]3.40298681[/TD]
[TD]26.00% Baltic_Bronze_Age_(n=12) + 74.00% Imperial-age_Marche_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #75FF00, align: right"]3.45355298[/TD]
[TD]61.40% Imperial-age_Marche_(n=2) + 38.60% Avars_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #78FF00, align: right"]3.53617373[/TD]
[TD]25.60% Bronze_Age_Estonia_(n=16) + 74.40% Imperial-age_Marche_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #7BFF00, align: right"]3.61001534[/TD]
[TD]24.00% Mesolithic_Baltic_Scandinavia_(SHG)_(n=31) + 76.00% Imperial-age_Marche_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #7BFF00, align: right"]3.61688947[/TD]
[TD]71.80% Imperial-age_Marche_(n=2) + 28.20% Iron_Age_Estonia_(n=8)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #7BFF00, align: right"]3.62489613[/TD]
[TD]24.40% Neolithic_Lithuania_Narva_culture_(n=4) + 75.60% Imperial-age_Marche_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #7BFF00, align: right"]3.63099654[/TD]
[TD]24.40% Chalcolithic_Northwest_Caucasus_(n=3) + 75.60% Early_Bronze_Age_Serbia_(n=23)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #7CFF00, align: right"]3.63887908[/TD]
[TD]24.60% Chalcolithic_Northwest_Caucasus_(n=3) + 75.40% Early_Iron_Age_Hungary_(n=9)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #7DFF00, align: right"]3.68719996[/TD]
[TD]62.40% Italian_Greeks_(n=2) + 37.60% Early_Medieval_Czechs_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #7EFF00, align: right"]3.70899027[/TD]
[TD]23.00% Neolithic_Ukraine_(n=12) + 77.00% Imperial-age_Marche_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #7FFF00, align: right"]3.72893608[/TD]
[TD]55.60% Italian_Greeks_(n=2) + 44.40% Vikings_from_Poland_(n=9)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #81FF00, align: right"]3.77969823[/TD]
[TD]53.80% Italian_Greeks_(n=2) + 46.20% Vikings_from_Ukraine_(n=4)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #84FF00, align: right"]3.87319529[/TD]
[TD]53.80% EBA_Unetice_culture_(n=18) + 46.20% Middle_Bronze_Age_Anatolia_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #86FF00, align: right"]3.94632219[/TD]
[TD]41.20% Chalcolithic_Anatolia_(n=35) + 58.80% Swedish_Vikings_(n=23)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #87FF00, align: right"]3.97492771[/TD]
[TD]45.40% Chalcolithic_Anatolia_(n=35) + 54.60% Nordic_Bronze_Age_(n=14)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #87FF00, align: right"]3.97782225[/TD]
[TD]52.40% Middle-Late_Bronze_Age_Hittites_(n=2) + 47.60% Nordic_Bronze_Age_(n=14)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #87FF00, align: right"]3.98433398[/TD]
[TD]69.40% Imperial-age_Marche_(n=2) + 30.60% Early_Medieval_Czechs_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #88FF00, align: right"]3.98622422[/TD]
[TD]26.20% Kura-Araxes_culture_(n=8) + 73.80% Early_Iron_Age_Hungary_(n=9)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: #88FF00, align: right"]3.99679521[/TD]
[TD]59.20% Imperial-age_Latium_(East_Med_immigrants)_(n=46) + 40.80% Early_Medieval_Czechs_(n=2)[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Is this what happens when your ancient ancestry is spread among peoples that were originally rather distant from each other?
[TH="class: singleheader, colspan: 2, align: left"]Target: Nicu
Distance: 0.8328% / 0.83279168[/TH]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]34.3[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Middle_Bronze_Age_Anatolia_(n=2)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]22.2[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Early_Medieval_Czechs_(n=2)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]9.4[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]MBA_Sintashta_culture_(n=4)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]8.6[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Middle-Late_Bronze_Age_Hungary_(n=12)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]6.6[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Neolithic_Lithuania_Narva_culture_(n=4)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]6.0[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Iron_Age_Armenia_(n=7)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]5.5[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Chalcolithic_Anatolia_(n=35)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]2.5[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Mongolian_Xiongnu_(n=5)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]2.3[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Early_Neolithic_France_(n=4)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]1.3[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Chalcolithic_North_Levant_(n=6)[/TD]
[TD="class: barchartmode1 nonselectable, colspan: 2"][/TD]
[TD="class: singleleftcolumn, align: right"]1.3[/TD]
[TD="class: singlerightcolumn"]Chalcolithic_Northwest_Caucasus_(n=3)[/TD]