The Caucasus hunter - gatherer ancestry is the best match we've found for
the European genetic component found right across modern Indian populations,» Jones said.
«India is a complete mix of Asian and
European genetic components.
Not exact matches
«What is surprising is this guy represents one of the earliest
Europeans, but at the same time he basically contains all the
genetic components that you find in contemporary
Europeans — at 37,000 years ago,» Willerslev says.
One high - profile recent study suggested that each
genetic component entered Europe by way of a separate migration and that they only came together in most
Europeans in the past 5000 years.
The size and distribution of the
genetic components contributed to indigenous
European hunter - gatherers, however, remain unclear.
As a result, the misidentification of
genetic variants associated to the Neolithic spread and the effect of post-Neolithic expansions in the
genetic make - up of Europe could have introduced important biases in the estimations of the Neolithic
component of the
European gene pool producing misleading conclusions [22].