Hi everyone. In this week’s article I am going to divide
Trabzon in general and Greeks and Turks included in this general average into
separate statistics. I am going to share 3 averages based on district, people
who are in these district averages come from the same district by all the known
ancestry. People who have relatives from two different districts are not
included in the district averages, I did not make statistics for some districts
due to the few number of people taking autosomal tests but I will update and
publish the districts whose number of testees reaches 5. As always, there is
the explanation of the components at the end of the statistics.
To speak of the
results, they in general reflect
Anatolian genetics except for the small differences from the peoples I covered
in my other articles.
Trabzon general average
Trabzon Turkish average
Trabzon Greek average
Sürmene district average
Çaykara district average
Akçaabat district average
Amerindian - a
component, which is modal (i.e has a peak) in various native American groups of
North and South America, as well as in ancient DNA of Native Americans (Clovis,
Kennewick man, etc).
Ancestor - an
archaic component, detected in modern African Pygmy populations (such as
Mbuties and Biaka) and Khoisan hunter-gatherers.
Steppe - a
component which was sourced from ancient genome of European Bronze Age
pastoralists: it roughly approximates levels of ancient North Eurasian
hunter-gatherers' heritage, which was subsequently shown to have an influence
in later eastern hunter-gatherers and to have spread into Europe via an
incursion of Steppe herders beginning 4,500 years ago.
Indian - a
component of ancestry harboured by populations of Indian subcontinent
Arctic - a
component displayed in genomes of Eskimo Inuits from Greenland and shared with
Siberian Chukchis/Koryaks.
Australian - a
component of aboriginal ancestry assigned to Australian aborigens.
Caucasian - a
major component of ancestry of modern inhabitants of Caucasus, Iran and
northern Indian : it was derived
from genomes of mesolithic Caucasian Hunter-gatherers: a major ancestral
component linked to CHG was carried west and east by migrating herders from the
Eurasian Steppe.
EastAfrican - a
very dilluted component being inherited specififically from ancient inhabitants
of Ethiopia and African Horn
NorthEastEuropean
- a fancy moniker for a dominant type of ancestry in North-Eastern Europe based
on older type of ancestry (WHG, west European Hunter-Gatherer), today this type
of ancestry peaks in the Baltic region and Scandinavia
NearEast - a
component harboured and later carried by ancient populations of Near East, in
our time it reaches the maximum among Bedoins and Saudi Arabians; the component
seems to carry an excess of Eurasian Basal component relative to Neolithic
component.
Neolithic - a
component, modeled on genomes of first neolithic farmers of Anatolia (West
Asia), these farmers from West Asia migrated to Europe during the Neolithic and
carried this component with them.
NorthAfrican - a
local component of ancestry found in North Africans: this local North African
genetic component is very different from the one found in the populations in
the south of the Sahara (Subsaharian component, see below).
Oceanic - a
component of aboriginal ancestry assigned to aborigens of Melanesia and
Papua-New-Guinea.
Siberian - a
component, which is rougly ascribed to Central Siberian (found at highest
frequency in Nganasan)
SouthEastAsian -
a dominant component of South East Asians: being highest among the Dai,
Cambodians, Lahu and Malay, this is the most common East Asian component among
South Asians.
Subsaharian - a
main component of ancestry seen in Yoruba, Mandenka and Luhya populations.
