miércoles, 22 de junio de 2016

Estimating the Celtic / Indo-European input in Spaniards

The Celtic original population most probably descends from the preceeding Central European Late Neolithic/Bronze Age cultures, such as the Bell Beakers or the Unetice.

The Iberian Peninsula before the Bronze Age was genetically middle-neolithic-like, that is, like the Early Neolithic farmers but with an increased level of WHG. But no steppe ancestry present.

But here I don't want to estimate raw steppe ancestry, but the whole LN/BA package. I've estimated this input to be around ~50% in Spaniards.

Using the nMonte stats, spaniards can be modeled as being roughly 40-50% Central Euro BA, and 40-50% Neolithic farmer, and also, depending on the regions of Spain, some minor north-african and/or west-asian might be added to make it a better fit :

      Spanish_Valencia
"Bell_Beaker_LN_Average"   39.75
"Stuttgart"     27.25
"Spain_MN__average"     15.7
"Unetice_BA"   14.95
"Mozabite_Berber"       2.35

Total of :  54.7%  Central-Euro LN/BA + 43.0% Neolithic + 2.35% north-african

Other regions might get more Unetice  than Bell Beaker :

 Spanish_Aragon
"Spain_MN__average"     33.25
"Unetice__BA"   28.9
"Bell_Beaker_LN_Average"        19.45
"Stuttgart"     14.8
"Mozabite_Berber"       3.6

Total :  48.4%  Central-Euro LN/BA + 48.1% Neolithic + 3.6 north-african





martes, 21 de junio de 2016

El mito de la mezcla de razas en España

En el estudio de Günther et al. 2015 se ha analizado una muestra de un individuo de la cueva de El Portañón (en Burgos) de la Edad de Bronze, que resulta ser genéticamente muy parecido a los españoles actuales.

Esto se puede visualizar fácilmente mediante un mapa genético de poblaciones (PCA plot), donde el indivudo "español" de la Edad de Bronze se solapa con los españoles actuales :