What are Finnish people genetically? (living, German, Scandinavians, genetics)

[MihailTheViking]

Are Finnish more Germanic, Ugro-Finnic, Asian or Slavic?

[Ruth4Truth]

Well, there are eastern Finns, and western Finns, in Finland, who differ genetically, to some extent.


But there is a Finno-Ugric component in some Finns. N1c is the (male) haplogroup that originated in Asia, what I call the "reindeerherder gene", and it seems to be in the majority in Finland. The pre-Indo-European Hg "I" is relatively high. The Indo-European markers R1a and R1b are very low. This is a tricky field, OP, because the theories, and the conclusions from DNA studies, have been in a state of flux for some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns#Genetics
On western and eastern Finns: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2986642/

[Anhityk]

That means in short that Finns are special, are genetically different from other European ethnicities. From Estonians as well btw.

[DontH8Me]

Originally Posted by Anhityk

That means in short that Finns are special, are genetically different from other European ethnicities. From Estonians as well btw.

That's a really interesting graph of regional genetics - is there one that includes GB? Where would they fall among the types graphed? The reason I ask is my father's genetic connections through the ancestry project exceedingly (50+%) are from GB, despite his continental roots.

[Ariete]

Northern European.

Finns are an outlier in European genetics, with most of the ancestry coming from a single population, unlike most Europeans who are a mix of usually 3 different populations. Genetically closest are Scandinavians, Estonians and non-Slavic people living in Northwestern Russia.