First, you need to know that haplogroup 'I' originated in the Balkans/Anatolia region, some 25.000 years ago. Before that, it came from the middle-east.Originally Posted by RedJack
The haplogroup R1b is the most common haplogroup in Europe. Most frequent in western Europe ( since it spread out of Iberia some 10.000 years ago ), but it's also very common in the Caucasus and elsewhere, on account of being a branch of the ancient pre-ice-age haplogroup 'R'.
The haplogroup R1a is of eastern European origin, and is closely connected to recent Slavic migrations ( in the 5th-7th century AD )
It takes some 10-12.000 years for a subclade to separate.
It's rather simple. Swedish are predominantly of a local subclade haplogroup 'I', 'N3' some 'R1b', some 'R1a' and traces of neolithic ancestry.
The uralic 'N3' has been present in Scandinavia for more than 5000 years.
The Greeks are predominantly Neolithic J and E3b, the local 'I1b', and traces of R1a and R1b.
Haplogroup N3 is completely absent in Greece.
Whatever invasion that could've happened which came from Scandinavia would bring at least some N3 to Greece, and at least some Scandinavian haplogroup 'I'.
That's based on the data available.
It's simply impossible that Scandinavians invaded Greece, but left absolutely no trace on either male or female lineages in Greece.
There is also the strong possibility that the 'R1a' and 'R1b' found in Scandinavia is of a different subclade than that found in the southern Balkans.
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