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Originally Posted by Kalevi
Easily, if the component - a group of genes - they have named "Northern" is actually a general European component that is just more pronounced in northern areas.
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The problem is that we don't know wich SNPs they took as "Northern" and wich are not?
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From the chart you posted it seems that their "Med" is more an eastern Mediterranean thing.
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It seems like that at the first test they made but at the EuropeanDNA 2.0 they say that have found Western-Eastern axis differences and that seems contradictory.
Just as a thought to consider is what PeterThatGreat has said and is that the northern cluster is actually quite big and I am sure that if this people have been able to found differences among Spaniards and Basques they can found differences among what they call Continental European (Germans, English, French, Irish and Polish) and among the Northeastern European group (Polish, Baltic and Finnish) as they say first and later they include even Norway, Sweden, Russia, and/or possibly other Baltic countries. In that case part of Poland, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland and all the Baltic states have the same genetic background or similar genetic structure? Still doesn't make sense this company to me. If in the future they are able to make a EuropeanDNA 3.0 where we can find differences among such a big cluster I will start thinking more seriously about them.