🇹🇷 T117
⚜ Anatolian Turkish
🔸 Gaziantep / Nizip / Kocatepe [Telfar]
▫️ Minorethnicity: Türkmen
▫️ Tribe: Mercanlı
🧬 R1a1-Y4459

📚 This sublineage can be considered a Balto Slavic branch of the R-Z282 haplogroup and is most common among Eastern Slavs. The spread of this haplogroup among the Anatolian Turks may originate from the Asian Minor Slavs and Varangians.

📖 According to our database, haplogroup R-Y4459 is rare in Anatolian Turks and this result is the first from this subclade. The closest and most relevant results is the R-YP569 subclade found in Mountain Crimean Tatar from Sudaq / Taraqtaş.

📜 Paleogenetic DNA (R-Y4459):
🇱🇹⚱️ Trzciniec Culture (9th century BCE)
🇭🇺⚱️ Avar Commoner (8th century)
🇨🇿⚱️ Medieval Moravia (9th century)
🇩🇰⚱️ Viking age Denmark (9th century)
🇵🇱⚱️ Medieval Slavic (11th century)
🇷🇺⚱️ Magna Hungarian (13th century)

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