A · BT · CT · F · K · K2 · K2b · NO · N · N1 · N1a · N1a1 · N1a1a · N-Z1936 · N-Z1927 · N-Z1933 · N-VL62 · N-Y9022 · N-Y17252
N-Y17252 (VL62 → Y9022 early Finnic lineage)
N-Y17252 is a significant early branch inside the N-Y9022 cluster, which represents the pre-Z1939 layer of the VL62 backbone. Y17252 appears to have emerged during the late Iron Age, within communities located around the eastern Baltic, eastern Finland and Karelia–Ladoga region. This branch reflects a paternal lineage that maintained continuity and internal diversity before the major medieval founder effects that produced the most common Finnic N clusters.
Y17252 carriers are distributed across eastern Finland, Karelia and northwestern Russia. Their presence in central Finland suggests later internal movement but the strongest continuity lies around the Ladoga and White Sea cultural zones. Isolated cases in Estonia are consistent with historic Finnic expansion into the southern shores of the Gulf of Finland.
N-Y17252 sits as a sibling branch to several early Y9022 lineages. Its downstream structure contains short and evenly spaced branches, characteristic of a lineage that persisted with moderate population growth rather than sharp bottlenecks. This makes Y17252 valuable for reconstructing the deeper layers of Finnic paternal ancestry.
Including Y17252 is crucial to capturing the full breadth of the early VL62 → Y9022 foundation upon which later Finnic expansions were built.