“The distribution of HG 3
chromosomes is also strongly clinal, but with a very different axis and
more on a regional scale…. It reaches its highest frequencies in
central-eastern Europe, comprising approximately half of the chromosomes
in the Russian, Polish, and Slovakian samples; frequencies in the
southeast and southwest are low. This distribution resembles the third
principal component of variation of classical gene frequencies, which
has been interpreted by some geneticists (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994) as
marking the movement, from north of the Caspian Sea, of the Kurgan
people, dated to ~7,000 YBP.”
HG3 Frequencies in European, Central Asian and Mediterranean groups:
Poles………..54%
Russians……..47% Slovaks………47% Belarusians…..39% Czechs……….38% Slovenians……37% Latvians……..41% Lithuanians…..34% Norwegians……31% Ukrainians……30% Mari…………29% Estonians…….27% Germans………23% Hungarians……22% Lapps………..21% Icelanders……21% Romanians…….20% Swedes……….18% Chuvash………18% Yugoslavs…….16% Dutchmen……..13% |
Bulgarians……12%
Finns………..10% East Anglians….9% Greeks………..8% Scots…………7% Danes…………7% Georgians……..6% Armenians……..6% Turks…………5% Frenchmen……..5% Belgians………4% Ossetians……..2% Cypriots………2% Spaniards……..2% Italians………1% Portuguese…….1% Irishmen………1% Cornish……….0% Basques……….0% Algerians……..0% North Africans…0% |
Rosser et al. (2000) Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Europe Is Clinal and Influenced Primarily by Geography, Rather than by Language. Am J Hum Genet; 67:1526-1543
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