turkish8 min
Turkish DNA: Ancient Origins from Neolithic Anatolia to the Ottomans
Turkish ancestry through ancient DNA: the Anatolian farmer substrate, the Southern Arc results, Byzantine Anatolia, the modest Turkic layer and qpAdm.
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qpadm
97 articles on qpadm, ancient-DNA research written up for readers who want the evidence, not just the headline.
qpAdm is the formal admixture method of the ancient-DNA literature — it models one target population as a weighted mixture of chosen sources, measured against a set of outgroups, and unlike every percentage calculator it can reject a model outright. That property is why published papers lean on it, and why reading one takes more than reading percentages.
The articles here cover the method end to end: a structured learning path from the f4-statistics underneath to running models in R, the current best-practices checklist with the measured numbers behind every rule, the practical pipeline from a raw file to an AADR merge, the parameters that silently change results, population-specific model recipes for European, South Asian and Middle Eastern ancestry, the companion methods (qpGraph, f4-ratios, admixture dating), and worked examples from reports run against AADR v66.
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berber8 minBerber and Maghrebi DNA: Ancient Origins from Taforalt to Today
Amazigh and Maghrebi ancestry through ancient DNA: Taforalt, the Neolithic farmers, the Guanche genomes, Arab-era gene flow, the Saharan gradient and qpAdm.
somali8 minSomali DNA: Ancient Origins of the Horn of Africa's Pastoralists
Somali ancestry through ancient DNA: the East African Pastoral Neolithic, the Ethio-Somali component, Arabian contacts and how to model it with qpAdm.
punjabi8 minPunjabi DNA: Ancient Origins from the Indus to the Swat Valley
Punjabi ancestry through ancient DNA: the Indus Periphery and Rakhigarhi genomes, AASI, the Steppe MLBA layer, the Swat Iron Age references and qpAdm.
pashtun8 minPashtun DNA: Ancient Origins from the Indus to the Swat Valley
What ancient genomes say about Pashtun ancestry: Iranian farmer, AASI and Steppe streams, the Swat valley references, and the legends DNA cannot confirm.
bengali8 minBengali DNA: Ancient Origins of Bangladesh and West Bengal
What genomes say about Bengali ancestry: a strong AASI share, a Southeast Asian layer from Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman speakers, and the gaps in the data.
mexican8 minMexican and Latino DNA: Ancient Origins of the Americas and After
What genomes say about Mexican and Latino ancestry: the peopling of the Americas, Indigenous Mexican structure, post-1519 admixture and diaspora variation.
african-american8 minAfrican American DNA: Ancient Origins, Source Regions and Limits
What genomes say about African American ancestry: West and West Central African source regions, the European share and its sex bias, and the ancient DNA gap.
qpadm3 minLearn qpAdm: the complete guide, from zero to defensible models
A structured learning path through everything qpAdm — what to read in what order, from the f4-statistics underneath to running models in R, choosing outgroups, reading results and knowing the method's measured limits.
qpadm4 minqpAdm best practices: the current checklist, with the numbers behind every rule
The definitive working checklist for qpAdm in 2026 — temporal stratification, right-set construction, lowest-rank-first search, composite feasibility and reporting standards — each rule carrying its measured justification from the 2021–2025 audit literature.
qpadm3 minIs qpAdm still reliable? What the criticism established, honestly assessed
qpAdm has been audited harder than any tool in ancient DNA: measured false-discovery rates, resolution floors, protocol failures. What the 2021–2025 criticism literature actually established, what survived it, and how practice changed.
qpadm3 minqpAdm models for Middle Eastern ancestry: four streams and the collinearity discipline
The Middle East is where qpAdm's sources crowd closest together: Natufian, Anatolian, Iranian and Caucasus ancestries all interrelated. The working recipe, the right set that splits them, failure modes and a worked reading.
qpadm4 minqpAdm models for South Asian ancestry: AASI, Indus Periphery and the proxy problem
South Asia is qpAdm's hardest standard fixture: one ancestral stream has no ancient sample at all. The working recipe — Indus Periphery, steppe MLBA, the Onge-as-AASI-proxy problem — with right sets, failure modes and a worked reading.
qpadm3 minqpAdm models for European ancestry: the standard recipe and its regional variations
The three-source model that rebuilt European prehistory — WHG, Anatolian farmers, steppe pastoralists — as a working qpAdm recipe: exact source and right-set choices, regional adjustments, failure modes and a worked reading.
qpadm3 minDating admixture with DATES and ALDER: when did the mixing happen?
qpAdm says how much; linkage-disequilibrium decay says when. How DATES and ALDER read generation counts out of chromosome fragment lengths, what the dates mean, and how a date corroborates or breaks a qpAdm model.
qpadm3 minThe f4-ratio: ancestry estimation with one statistic, and when it beats qpAdm
Before qpAdm there was the f4-ratio — one number, two f4-statistics, an ancestry proportion. How the classic estimator works, the famous results built on it, and the precise trade against qpAdm.
qpadm3 minqpGraph explained: admixture graphs, find_graphs, and the many-graphs problem
qpAdm's bigger sibling models whole population histories as trees with admixture edges. How qpGraph works, what find_graphs automates, and the 2023 finding that reshaped how graph results should be read.
qpadm3 minClassic ADMIXTOOLS vs ADMIXTOOLS 2: why your qpAdm numbers differ, and how to match them
Same model, different p-value: the real differences between original qpAdm and ADMIXTOOLS 2 — allsnps semantics, fudge_twice, f2 precomputation — and the settings that reproduce classic behaviour when you need to.
qpadm3 minAADR sample labels explained: .SG, .DG, .HO and how to choose samples safely
The suffixes on AADR population labels encode how each genome was produced — capture, shotgun, diploid, array — and mixing them carelessly biases f-statistics. What each label means and the selection rules that keep models honest.
qpadm3 minADMIXTOOLS 2 parameters that change your qpAdm results: f2 extraction, allsnps, fudge and friends
The settings tutorials skip and reviewers ask about: extract_f2 versus genotype input, allsnps, maxmiss, fudge and fudge_twice, blgsize, boot, afprod and constrained — what each does, with the measured stakes.
qpadm3 minqpAdm data preparation: from a raw DNA file to an AADR merge that works
The undocumented half of every qpAdm analysis: file formats, genome builds, strand hygiene, convertf and Poseidon, and the merge arithmetic that decides your standard errors before any model runs.
england4 minEnglish DNA: ancient origins from the Beaker reset to the Anglo-Saxon century
England has ancient DNA's best-measured migrations: a Beaker-era turnover, a mid-Bronze Age Celtic-era influx, the quantified Anglo-Saxon settlement and the Danelaw. What each layer left in English genomes, and how to read yours.
ancient-egypt4 minEgyptian DNA: ancient origins from the Old Kingdom genome to the modern Nile
Egypt finally has ancient genomes: what the Old Kingdom and mummy-era samples show about ancient Egyptian ancestry, how the modern Nile gene pool differs, and how to read an Egyptian genome honestly.
balkans3 minSerbian, Croatian and Bosniak DNA: one gene pool, three nations, measured
Ancient DNA on the western Balkans: the Illyrian-era base, the measured Slavic-era arrival, why the world's highest I2a frequencies sit in Bosnia — and why the three nations' genomes overlap almost completely.
bulgaria4 minBulgarian DNA: ancient origins where Thrace met the Slavic and Bulgar arrivals
Ancient DNA on Bulgarian ancestry: the Thracian-era Balkan base, the Roman provincial centuries, the measured Slavic-era layer, the surprisingly thin Bulgar trace — and how to read a Bulgarian genome.
romania4 minRomanian DNA: ancient origins between the Carpathians and the Roman frontier
What ancient DNA says about Romanian ancestry: the Balkan deep stack, Dacians and the Roman province, the measured Slavic-era layer, highland continuity — and what the data cannot settle about the ethnogenesis debate.
hungary3 minHungarian DNA: ancient origins of a European genome with a steppe-born language
Ancient DNA solved Hungary's founding paradox: the conquerors' genomes have been sequenced, and modern Hungarians barely carry them. The Carpathian Basin's layered story, and how to read a Hungarian genome.
ukraine4 minUkrainian DNA: ancient origins in the land the steppe expansions left from
Ukraine holds the Yamnaya homeland, the Trypillia mega-sites and the likeliest cradle of the Slavic expansion. What ancient DNA shows about Ukrainian ancestry, and how to read a Ukrainian genome.
russia3 minRussian DNA: ancient origins across the largest gene-pool gradient in Europe
Russian ancestry is a Slavic core laid over older northern and steppe worlds: what ancient DNA shows about the East Slavic expansion, the Uralic-related north, the steppe south, and how to read a Russian genome.
france4 minFrench DNA: ancient origins of Europe's quiet crossroads
France's ancient-DNA transect runs from Ice Age refuges through Gaulish continuity to a nation of regional clines. What the samples show about French ancestry, why the Franks barely register, and how to read a French genome.
scandinavia3 minScandinavian DNA: ancient origins from a double-doored peninsula to the Viking exchange
Denmark, Sweden and Norway share a genome written by two prehistoric turnovers and one famous exchange: the Viking Age imported as much ancestry as it exported. The ancient-DNA story, and how to read a Scandinavian genome.
scotland3 minScottish DNA: ancient origins from the Beaker north to Picts, Gaels and Norse
What ancient DNA says about Scottish ancestry: the shared Beaker-descended base, the Pictish genomes and their local roots, the Gaelic-Irish kinship of the west, and the measured Norse layer in the isles.
netherlands3 minDutch DNA: ancient origins on the North Sea's busiest shore
The Netherlands sits at the heart of the Beaker world and the launch coast of the Anglo-Saxon migration. What ancient DNA shows about Dutch ancestry, the country's surprising internal cline, and how to read a Dutch genome.
qpadm3 minIllustrativeDNA alternatives: deep-ancestry reports and DIY qpAdm, compared
Looking for an IllustrativeDNA alternative? The real decision points — coordinate reports versus hand-checked qpAdm, subscription versus one-time, WGS input, published statistics — and which services deliver each.
italy4 minItalian DNA: ancient origins from the Iron Age Latins to Europe's steepest cline
Rome's ancient-DNA transect, the Iron Age base, the imperial eastern shift, why Italy holds Europe's largest internal genetic variation, and what Sardinia preserves. How to read an Italian genome, region by region.
greece4 minGreek DNA: ancient origins from Minoans and Mycenaeans to modern Greeks
What ancient DNA says about Greek ancestry: the Aegean's Neolithic base, Minoan and Mycenaean genomes, the classical and Byzantine continuum, the Slavic-era addition, and the measured continuity underneath. How to read a Greek genome.
sicily4 minSicilian DNA: ancient origins of the Mediterranean's great crossroads
Sicily's ancient-DNA record runs from island foragers through a late steppe arrival, Greek and Phoenician colonists, Roman, Arab and Norman centuries. What each layer actually left in Sicilian genomes, and how to read your own.
iberia4 minSpanish and Portuguese DNA: 8,000 years of Iberian ancient origins
Iberia has the longest continuous ancient-DNA transect in Europe: foragers, farmers, a Beaker-era Y-chromosome revolution, Phoenicians and Romans, the Islamic centuries and their aftermath. What each layer left, and how to read an Iberian genome.
ireland4 minIrish DNA: ancient origins from Mesolithic foragers to the Beaker reset
Ireland's ancient-DNA transect is one of Europe's cleanest: a Mesolithic baseline, a Neolithic of tomb-builders with a dynastic elite, a near-total Beaker-era turnover, and striking continuity since. The story, and how to read an Irish genome.
germany4 minGerman DNA: ancient origins at the crossroads of every European migration
Germany is ancient DNA's best-sampled territory: the LBK farmers, the Corded Ware steppe arrival, Bell Beakers, and the Celtic–Germanic–Slavic interfaces all run through it. The layered story, and how to read a German genome.
poland4 minPolish DNA: ancient origins, the first-millennium turnover and Slavic continuity
Poland's ancient-DNA story has a twist most national histories lack: a documented population turnover in the first millennium CE. Goths and Wielbark, the early Slavic horizon, what modern Polish genomes show, and how to read your own.
iran4 minIranian DNA: ancient origins from the Zagros farmers to the plateau's long continuity
Iran holds one of ancient DNA's founding populations. What the Zagros genomes changed, how the plateau's ancestry formed and persisted through empires, what modern Iranian samples show, and how to read your own results.
armenia4 minArmenian DNA: ancient origins, the Bronze Age blend and a famous isolation
Ancient DNA gives Armenians one of West Asia's clearest stories: a Bronze Age blend of local Caucasus and Anatolian streams, a measured steppe pulse, and genetic isolation since roughly the end of the Bronze Age. The evidence, honestly read.
georgia4 minGeorgian DNA: ancient origins from Caucasus hunter-gatherers to the highlands
Georgia holds two of the most important genomes in West Eurasian prehistory. What Satsurblia and Kotias revealed, the Kura-Araxes and later layers, why Georgian ancestry is among Eurasia's most continuous, and how to read your own results.
kurdish4 minKurdish DNA: ancient origins in the Zagros and what genetics can show
Kurdish ancestry through the ancient-DNA lens: the Zagros Neolithic foundation, the layers that followed, what modern samples show about structure and neighbours, and how to read G25 and qpAdm results for a Kurdish genome.
assyrian5 minAssyrian DNA: ancient Mesopotamian origins and what genetics can actually show
What ancient DNA and modern genetic studies say about Assyrian ancestry: deep Mesopotamian roots, two millennia of documented endogamy, the missing ancient transect, and how to read G25 and qpAdm results for an Assyrian genome.
qpadm3 minf4-statistics explained: the arithmetic under every ancient-DNA claim
f2, f3, f4 and D-statistics are the shared-drift arithmetic beneath qpAdm, qpWave and admixture graphs. What each statistic measures, how a four-population test works, and how to read Z-scores like the papers do.
qpadm4 minRunning qpAdm in R with ADMIXTOOLS 2: a working tutorial
From genotype files to a tested model: f2 extraction, qpadm() and its output tables, the arguments that silently change results (allsnps, fudge_twice, constrained), and the protocol discipline the code will not enforce for you.
qpadm3 minqpAdm troubleshooting: the errors, warnings and weird outputs, decoded
Negative weights, SE 9.99, every model rejected, every model passing, infeasible popdrop rows, allsnps confusion — the standard failure gallery of qpAdm runs and what each symptom actually indicates.
qpadm3 minqpWave explained: counting ancestry streams before naming them
qpAdm's sibling asks a prior question — how many independent streams of ancestry does a set of populations need? The rank test, cladality checks, and why every good qpAdm search starts with a qpWave answer.
qpadm4 minqpAdm right populations: the O9 set, its extensions, and how many outgroups to use
The canonical nine outgroups from Lazaridis 2016, the o9a and o9aamcn extensions, the arithmetic floor and the ~30-population ceiling, and the published example where one added outgroup cut standard errors threefold.
qpadm3 minqpAdm rotation explained: the screening strategy and its false-discovery bill
The rotating protocol tests every candidate as source and outgroup in turn — elegant, recommended by the method's auditors, and carrying a measured 72–100% false-discovery rate when run without temporal discipline. What rotation is actually for.
qpadm3 minDistal vs proximal qpAdm models: the choice that sets your false-discovery rate
Whether your sources predate your target is not a style preference — measured false-discovery rates run 16–31% for temporally stratified protocols and 72–100% for proximal rotating screens. What each model type is for.
qpadm4 minHow many SNPs does qpAdm need? Coverage, overlap and the allsnps lever
The number that governs a qpAdm model is never your file's marker count — it is the intersection with the ancient panel, per statistic. The published coverage numbers, the allsnps table, and what a consumer chip can honestly support.
qpadm3 minqpAdm vs ADMIXTURE: two methods papers use, two different questions
ADMIXTURE describes structure with K inferred components; qpAdm tests an explicit historical model and can reject it. What each estimates, why papers use both, and which answers which of your questions.
qpadm4 minHow qpAdm changed ancient DNA: from one 2015 paper to the field's workhorse
qpAdm first appeared in the supplement of the 2015 steppe-migration paper and became the method behind a decade of ancestry headlines. Where it came from, what it settled, and how a decade of stress-testing sharpened its limits.
qpadm14 minqpAdm analysis tutorial: from a raw DNA file to a model with a p-value
A step-by-step qpAdm tutorial: check your raw file, merge it into AADR v66, choose sources and outgroups, run it in the browser or in R, and read the result.
qpadm2 minWhere to buy a qpAdm analysis in 2026: every service, what it costs, what you get
Every place that sells or offers qpAdm in 2026: hand-checked analyses, DIY tools and subscriptions, with inputs, reference data and price models side by side.
qpadm1 minHow much does a qpAdm analysis cost? Prices, tiers and what changes the price
What a qpAdm analysis costs in 2026: four one-time tiers from 29.99 EUR, the add-ons, what does not change the price, and what a DIY subscription costs instead.
qpadm8 minIs qpAdm worth it? qpAdm versus admixture calculators and percentage tools
What an admixture calculator optimises, why it always answers, what a qpAdm model adds, when each is the right tool, and when qpAdm is not worth paying for.
qpadm10 minHow to choose qpAdm sources and right populations
How to choose qpAdm left and right populations: the classic outgroups, the drift rule, the rank test, temporal logic, proxy labels, rotation and a worked example.
qpadm5 minWhy a qpAdm model gets rejected, and what to try next
What a qpAdm p-value below 0.05 does and does not mean, the five usual causes of a rejection, negative weights, low Z-scores, what to try next and when to stop.
qpadm8 minA qpAdm report, read line by line: a worked example
An illustrative qpAdm report for one era, read from the model line through the weights, p-value, right set, nested models and rank test to the explanation.
qpadm6 minqpAdm from your 23andMe raw data: what works, what to expect
How to download your 23andMe raw data, what the v3, v4 and v5 chips mean for coverage after the AADR merge, and what a qpAdm order does with the file.
qpadm6 minqpAdm from your AncestryDNA raw data: what works, what to expect
How to download your AncestryDNA raw file, what the v1 and v2 chips mean for coverage after the AADR merge, the allele quirk, and what a qpAdm order does.
qpadm6 minqpAdm from your MyHeritage raw data: what works, what to expect
How to download your MyHeritage raw CSV, what its chip means for coverage after the AADR merge, the low-pass WGS note, and what a qpAdm order does.
jewish-ancestry9 minJewish ancestry and ancient DNA: what a qpAdm model can tell you
What ancient genomes actually say about Jewish ancestry, why a consumer 'Ashkenazi Jewish' percentage answers a different question, and what a formal qpAdm model with a p-value shows for a Jewish genome.
jewish-ancestry7 minAshkenazi Jewish DNA: the ancient origins behind the label
Why Ashkenazi genomes read as their own category on consumer tests, what the medieval Erfurt genomes settled, and how a qpAdm model separates the Levantine and southern European halves of Ashkenazi ancestry.
jewish-ancestry5 minSephardic Jewish DNA: Iberia, the exile and the ancient sources
What ancient DNA says about Sephardic ancestry across Turkey, the Balkans, North Africa and Iberia, why 'Sephardic' covers several different genetic histories, and how a qpAdm model separates the Levantine, Iberian and North African layers.
jewish-ancestry5 minMizrahi Jewish DNA: Iraqi, Iranian, Kurdish and Syrian Jews in ancient DNA
Why the Jewish communities of Mesopotamia, Persia and Kurdistan sit closest to the Bronze Age Levant, what the Iranian-related layer in their genomes is, and how a qpAdm model resolves a Mizrahi genome.
jewish-ancestry5 minYemenite Jewish DNA: between the Levant and Arabia
What ancient DNA says about the Yemenite Jewish community, the Himyarite question, and how a qpAdm model tests a Yemenite genome against the Canaanite and Arabian Peninsula sources.
jewish-ancestry5 minMountain, Georgian and Bukharian Jewish DNA: the Caucasus and Central Asian communities
What genome-wide and ancient DNA say about the Jewish communities of Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Central Asia, their Persian-Jewish core and local admixture, and how a qpAdm model resolves them.
jewish-ancestry7 minCanaanite ancestry: the Bronze Age Levant in ancient DNA
Who the Canaanites were genetically, who carries their ancestry today, and why the qpAdm source catalog now has a Canaanite (2000 - 1200 BC) population built from the Megiddo and Hazor genomes.
jewish-ancestry7 minWhy qpAdm for a Jewish genome: a buyer's guide against the percentage tools
What consumer ancestry percentages measure for Jewish customers, why an 'Ashkenazi 99%' result is circular, what a formal qpAdm model shows instead, what the four tiers buy, and the honest limits: endogamy, drift and coverage.
qpadm11 minEvery number in your qpAdm report: the model record explained
What the full qpAdm model record in an Ancestrify report means — chi-square, degrees of freedom, f4 rank, SNP counts, jackknife blocks, 95% confidence intervals, the nested-model table and the rank test — and how to read the plain-text download.
qpadm8 minWhat is a qpAdm ancestry test? A buyer's guide
What a qpAdm ancestry test actually does with your raw DNA file, what the report contains, what the four tiers buy and what they don't, and how to tell a formal model from a percentage generator.
qpadm4 minHow to read qpAdm results: p-value, Z-score and SE
A plain reading guide to the three numbers in every qpAdm result — what the p-value tests, what a standard error bounds, what a Z-score rules out — with worked examples and the mistakes that make a passing model wrong.
ancient-dna6 minAncient DNA test vs 23andMe or AncestryDNA estimates
What a 23andMe or AncestryDNA ethnicity estimate measures, what an ancient-DNA ancestry test measures instead, why the two disagree by design, and how to run the second one on the raw file you already have.
yamnaya5 minSteppe (Yamnaya) ancestry percentage: how to measure
Who the Western Steppe Herders were, how steppe ancestry spread across Europe and Asia after 3000 BC, what a 'steppe percentage' actually measures, and how to estimate yours with qpAdm or Global25 from a raw DNA file.
hunter-gatherers6 minHunter-gatherer ancestry: WHG, EHG and how to test it
Who Europe's Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were — Western, Eastern and Caucasus — how their ancestry survived farming and the steppe migrations, and how to measure your hunter-gatherer share from a raw DNA file.
neolithic5 minNeolithic farmer ancestry: Anatolian roots, modern share
Who the Anatolian Neolithic farmers were, how their ancestry spread across Europe from 6500 BC and became the largest component in most southern Europeans, what 'early European farmer' means in a model, and how to measure your share.
raw-dna6 minUpload a whole-genome VCF for ancient-DNA ancestry
How to run an ancient-DNA ancestry analysis from a whole-genome sequencing VCF — tellmeGen, Dante Labs, Nebula and similar — what happens to the file at upload, why it is converted to the panel's markers, and what changes versus a chip export.
qpadm6 minRun your own qpAdm models: the Model Lab, explained
How to run qpAdm on your own genome after a published report — choosing sources and outgroups, reading a rejection, testing nested models, and downloading the EIGENSTRAT bundle to reproduce everything on your own machine.
aadr6 minAADR explained: the Allen Ancient DNA Resource
What the Allen Ancient DNA Resource is, who curates it, what a version like v66 contains, the difference between the 1240K and Human Origins panels, and how the dataset becomes the reference behind an ancient-DNA ancestry analysis.
methodology6 minqpAdm vs Global25: what each method can and cannot tell you
Global25 fits your coordinate to a mixture and always returns percentages. qpAdm tests a model against allele-frequency statistics and can reject it. A practical comparison of when each one is the right instrument.
ancient-greece9 minAncient Greek Army DNA: Who Fought at Himera?
DNA from ancient Himera reveals a diverse 480 BCE Greek army, distant mercenaries, local soldiers and mobility across the Mediterranean.
ancient-egypt9 minAncient Egyptian DNA: What the First Old Kingdom Genome Reveals
The first whole genome from Old Kingdom Egypt reveals deep North African ancestry and an eastern Fertile Crescent connection—with major limits.
yamnaya8 minYamnaya DNA: Where Steppe Ancestry Came From
Ancient DNA traces Yamnaya ancestry to Caucasus–Lower Volga and Dnipro–Don populations before the great Bronze Age steppe expansion.
tarim-basin8 minTarim Mummy DNA: The Unexpected Origins of Xinjiang’s Bronze Age People
DNA from 13 early Tarim Basin mummies reveals a genetically isolated local population that adopted dairy, crops and technologies from neighbors.
ladakh9 minLadakh Ancient DNA: A Forgotten Population at 4,000 Metres
Ten genomes from a Himalayan cave reveal a population that was half Tibetan-related and half North Indian-related, mixing from about 2800 years ago.
south-america8 minEight Millennia of Continuity: An Unknown Lineage in Argentina
238 ancient genomes from the Southern Cone reveal a deep central Argentina lineage that persisted for thousands of years with little inward migration.
albania11 minAlbanian DNA: Ancient Origins, Continuity and Migration
A 2026 ancient DNA study traces Albanian ancestry from Bronze and Iron Age West Balkan groups through Roman-era and medieval admixture.
balkans10 minAncient Balkan DNA: Romans, Slavs and Migration
Ancient Balkan DNA reveals Roman-era Anatolian mobility, mixed late-antique migrations and lasting ancestry linked to Slavic expansion.
methodology7 minUnderstanding qpAdm: how to read a formal admixture model
The method, for readers who want the maths: what qpAdm computes, what the p-value, standard error and z-score each mean, why outgroup choice decides whether a model is worth anything, and how to read a rejection — with a worked example.
anatolia7 minThe Genetic making of Anatolian Turks
qpAdm modeling shows modern Anatolian Turks carrying ancestry from Neolithic farmers, Yamnaya, and later Iron Age to medieval populations, reflecting a complex mix of local and incoming ancestries.
balkans6 minNeolithic Ancestry of present-day Balkan Populations
qpAdm modeling shows modern Balkan populations carry varying proportions of Neolithic farmer and Bronze Age steppe ancestry, reflecting long-term regional continuity.
italy6 minThe Genetic Ancestry of the Picenes: A New Genomic Portrait of an Ancient People
Recent ancient DNA research provides the first comprehensive view of the Picenes (Picentes), an Iron Age population of Central Italy along the Middle Adriatic coast. This study sheds light on their paternal lineages, ancestral composition, and genetic relationships with neighboring populations.