Overview
G2a2b1a42 is a historically mediated European lineage whose demographic expansion occurred during the late Roman and early medieval reorganization of central Europe. Although the lineage’s ancestry traces back to the Anatolian M406 radiation, its tmrca is tightly linked to the classical to medieval transition period when eastern Mediterranean genetic signatures were integrated into European populations through military, administrative and trade networks. The branch’s structure reflects small founder events occurring in frontier garrison towns, cross Alpine trade routes and early medieval settlement zones undergoing demographic renewal. G2a2b1a42 serves as a record of subtle east to west paternal gene flow shaped by late antiquity mobility patterns rather than prehistoric migrations.
Geographic distribution
Today carriers cluster across northern Italy, Austria, Slovenia, southern Germany, Hungary and the Czech region. Additional minor distributions appear in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Very limited occurrences in Anatolia likely reflect back migrations or preserved ancestral nodes rather than a sustained presence.
Ancient DNA
- Late Roman individuals from the Danubian provinces show upstream G-M406 signatures consistent with ancestral phases of FT93401.
- Early medieval remains in Bavaria, Austria and Bohemia reveal derived G lineages aligned with FT93401 type patterns.
- Isolated late antique individuals from northern Italy exhibit configurations matching downstream European branches of this lineage.
Phylogeny & subclades
FT93401 splits into two major clades: a central European cluster centered on the Danubian–Alpine zone and a western European derivative. A smaller Carpatho Balkan oriented microbranch reflects limited movement along eastern frontier corridors. Divergence timing matches the complex socio political transitions of late antiquity.
- G-FT93401* central European basal cluster
- G-FT93401a western European derived branch
- G-FT93401b Carpatho Balkan microlineage
- G-FT93401c minor northern Italian offshoot
Notes & context
This clade helps map the late Roman to early medieval integration of Anatolian rooted paternal ancestry into central and western European gene pools.
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