worth observg is that I2a2 in Croatia is much much less frequent in west and north parts of the country ... it looks as pretty much restricted to areas of pre-Croat Dalmatae tribe and Slavic non-Croat Narentani (Pagani) tribes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagania
Eupedia states for Croatia forged 42% of I2a2 - obtained from work of croatian "scientists" who came up with 42% by taking around half samples from 3 scarcely populated islands in south Croatia (where all together like 40 thousand people live and where I2a2 is over 55%) together with half of samples from the rest of Croatia (where more than 4 milion people live)... comparable fraud would be e.g. to chose half samples from Sardinia and half samples from rest of Europe, and say that Europe has 25% I2a1... or to take samples for Europe half from Sweden and half from rest of Europe and conclude 30% of Europe is I1...
http://cmj.hr/2005/46/4/16100752.pdf
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v.../5200992a.html
btw. all the 3 islands in south Croatia (Hvar, Korcula , Brac) with over 55% I2a2 were part of Pagania, as was the area around Neretva river in Hercegovina from where samples for Bosnian Croats mostly come from...
http://www.euratlas.net/history/euro...tity_1812.html
in 900 AD Narentanians are neignours of Croats
http://www.euratlas.net/history/euro...tity_1812.html
http://www.euratlas.net/history/euro...tity_1523.html
in 1000 AD they are still separate nation
http://www.euratlas.net/history/euro...tity_1812.html
in 1100 AD their area is counted as Croatia
http://www.euratlas.net/history/euro...tity_1523.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagania
according to only historic source talking about origin of people from Pagania, Narentani (also called Pagani) were Serbs and not Croats...
Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus stresses that "Pagani are descended from the unbaptized Serbs" and that "The Pagani are so called because they did not accept baptism at the time when all the Serbs were baptized." [1]
actually, it is very logical that Pagania has higher percentages of I2a2 than the rest... by refusing for longer time to change from Pagan religion to Christianity they were not prone to mix with Christian populations, and as such were genetic isolate... later they were converted to catholics while the rest of the Serbs became ortodox... today, key difference between Serbs and Croats is that Serbs are ortodox and Croats catholics...
anyway, back to forged 42% of I2a2 in Croatia:
also for the mainland Croatia (without those 3 south most islands) mix included samples from several towns without telling which number of samples came from which town... however by comparing provided map of I2a2 spread and locations where sampling is done, we can see that among towns around half are I2a2 hotspots (Dubrovnik, Osijek, Zagreb) and other 3 (from west and north Croatia: Delnice, Zabok and Pazin) are more or less lacking I2a2...
Dubrovnik is town very close to the 3 islands and hotspot in Hercegovina....Zagreb is an island of I2a2 in north Croatia due to lot of migration from south areas to capital (looking at the map provided in article above and comparing it with locations of sampling.....north Croatia with exception of Zagreb has I2a2 close to zero), they have also chosen to represent Slavonia with Osijek that is in east Slavonia near borders with Serbia and follows spread trends present there, while other parts of Slavonia are likely to follow lack of I2a2 trend of north and west Croatia...
taking into account number of people living in Dalmatia, north west Croatia and Slavonia, even 20-25% of I2a2 is too much for Croatia in total...
for Serbia all sampling was done in Belgrade, which is typical mix for Serbia as it is very centralized country with people from all parts of Serbia intensively migrating to Belgrade (Belgrade is estimated to have around 1.7 milion people, while Serbia (without Kosovo) has 7.3 milion people)...
the only testing for Serbia done on larger number of samples and that was not done by Croatian scientist is this one:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...21235/suppinfo