> Among their results the team found that from the iron age, southern European genes entered Denmark and then spread north, while – to a lesser extent – genes from Asia entered Sweden.
A friend of Scandinavian extraction found through 23&Me that his Y chromosome comes from China. His variant traveled from SE Asia north to Siberia, then west to Scandinavia, presumably carried by progenitors of the Sámi.
Circumpolar peoples certainly got around, but I guess it's also much easier to travel around the world at those latitudes.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 17.2 ms ] threadRelative to what? "Common" could mean anywhere from 10% to 80%, and the article somehow never manages to explain.
A friend of Scandinavian extraction found through 23&Me that his Y chromosome comes from China. His variant traveled from SE Asia north to Siberia, then west to Scandinavia, presumably carried by progenitors of the Sámi.
Circumpolar peoples certainly got around, but I guess it's also much easier to travel around the world at those latitudes.