
TheStonerOne
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It's a myth to suggest that "excess" Middle Eastern ancestry in Albanians makes Albanians "distinct" from most other Europeans.
Albanians do have higher levels of Anatolian ancestry than most other Europeans, but it's more in line with Italy (combined) as opposed to Southern Italy or the Greek Islands. Albanians actually have more Northern European ancestry than Greeks or Italians. They have less Southern European ancestry than Italians. They have less Anatolian ancestry than Greeks or Southern Italians.
Dark Blue=Northern/Eastern Europe
Light Blue=Southern/Western Europe
Beige=Anatolian/Caucasian
Orange=West Asian (indubitably a Natufian component)
Green=Central/South Asian
Yellow=East Asian
Brown=African
This study shows "Kosovars" but Kosovars are not genetically distinct from Albanians from Albania and can appropriately be used as a proxy.
Other studies also confirm this. Albanians are about as "Middle Eastern shifted" as Italians (general) and mainland Greeks but less than Southern Italians and Island Greeks.
Also, this is one of many studies that utterly demolishes both white and Arab supremacy.
Albanians do have higher levels of Anatolian ancestry than most other Europeans, but it's more in line with Italy (combined) as opposed to Southern Italy or the Greek Islands. Albanians actually have more Northern European ancestry than Greeks or Italians. They have less Southern European ancestry than Italians. They have less Anatolian ancestry than Greeks or Southern Italians.


Dark Blue=Northern/Eastern Europe
Light Blue=Southern/Western Europe
Beige=Anatolian/Caucasian
Orange=West Asian (indubitably a Natufian component)
Green=Central/South Asian
Yellow=East Asian
Brown=African
This study shows "Kosovars" but Kosovars are not genetically distinct from Albanians from Albania and can appropriately be used as a proxy.
Other studies also confirm this. Albanians are about as "Middle Eastern shifted" as Italians (general) and mainland Greeks but less than Southern Italians and Island Greeks.
Also, this is one of many studies that utterly demolishes both white and Arab supremacy.