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Dr Zlatko Jakovski
Geneticist, Skopje Institute o...<br />Dr Zlatko Jakovski<br />Geneticist, Skopje Institute of forensic medicine, criminology and medical deonthology<br /><br />If you stumble on Slavic Macedonist generated propaganda you might have come across some results generated by iGENEA over a decade ago. What the slav pseudo-Macedonians from North Macedonia (former FYROM) claim with this is that they are direct descendants of ancient Macedonians.<br /><br />These particular DNA results were that North Macedonia (FYROM) population consisted of:<br /><br /> 30% antic Macedonians<br /> 20% Teutons<br /> 15% Slavs<br /> 15% Hellenic people<br /> 10% Illyrian<br /> 5% Hunnian<br /> 5% Phoenician<br /><br />If one looks carefully, one would get a good laugh, especially when looking at the second bullet: 20% Teuton!! But laughs aside, pseudo-Macedonians from North Macedonia (FYROM) have been using this information to claim their descendence from the ancient Macedonians, even though this Company is more of a private ‘marketing’ company rather than a reputable research institute that publishes peer reviewed papers. But anyway, let us make a few points:<br /><br /> iGENEA refers to antic Macedonia, not ancient. What does this mean? iGENEA did NOT claim that the modern Slavic inhabitants of North Macedonia (former FYROM) were related to the ancient Greek tribe of Macedonians of Alexander the Great from northern Greece. The company merely found ancient genetic markers (more likely “Paeonian”) in the geographic region of North Macedonia (FYROM), which they named “antic Macedonian”, only because the country calls itself “Macedonia” and iGENEA considered it to be politically correct to make use of the constitutional name of the country!!<br /> The Company admitted their mistake and decided to remove data about North Macedonia (FYROM) from their website. They also said the following on their website:<br /><br /> “Many nations [FYROMians] keep names [“Macedonia”] that do not totally fit their ethnic composition”. Roman C. Scholz, iGENEA.<br /> “Data has been removed because it is not useful for genetic genealogy”<br /> “Today’s ‘Macedonians’ [FYROMians] are a political folk, NOT genetic.” Inma Pazos, iGENEA, 26.06.2008<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com