A surprising twist to the Shirenzigou nomads story

Remember those potentially Afanasievo-derived and Tocharian-related Shirenzigou nomads from the Ning et al. paper? Well, in my opinion, they're probably neither. The genotypes and other data for these Iron Age individuals from the eastern Tian Shan are available here. Below are a few successful and not so successful qpAdm mixture models for them. Note that I tried to use a wide range of

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