A new FTDNA sample SI18279, presumed J1>FGC6064>FGC6020 from Erzincan - Zaza, Turkey. I know from 23andMe tests that Zaza Kurds have that clade, let's hope for a Big Y test and we can already estimate the new branch via his Y-37 markers as a new cluster in another Indo-European and Ancient Iranian population still not very well tested, as always.
Quote: The ancient Iranian population who bred and born Iranian J1-L620 on the land. L620>FGC6064 and L620>PF4816>ZS6599 are in good part basal Indo-European or Iranian with Bronze Age and Iron Age nodes, branches and diverse samples. The Iranian and Indo-European frontier separating Semitic and Afro-Asiatic spaces perpassing and close to the Zagros Mountain range in the vicinity of the modern Iraq/Iran border. Iran is completely undersampled in terms of high-coverage Y-DNA and ancient DNA (we would need a study about the capillarity of at least 5000 samples to have a critical mass and a notion of the Y-DNA structures found there in different regions), the only information we have is related to the perception of the bushy phylogenetic ancient nodes in the tree of some haplogroups like J1 and they reveal a large Mesolithic/Neolithic/Bronze Age population that persisted and survived in the core area of that genetic cauldron. Another feature is the mobile 360° expansion to all directions. Iranian ancestry with J1 and J2 derived branches expanded to the South (Arabia) and Southwest (Levant), we know the expansion to the West (Anatolia/Mediterranean), to the East (Central Asia and Indian Subcontinent), to the North (Steppe), we can find the Iranian/Caucasian autosomal component in all directions with substantive impact transforming all demographies in the Bronze Age.
I wrote that in 2021 here:
https://zenodo.org/records/5528265
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