Did the Ancient Greeks leave a big Genetic impact on Anatolia?
Arberian 10/05/2024
For what we have Genetically from Iron Age and Roman Anatolia we see that there's is little Greek influence among them, if we check them on a PCA we see that they have little to do with the Ancient Greeks and stick with native Anatolians from the Bronze Age.

In the time of those Bronze Age Anatolian samples the Proto-Greeks weren't even present in today's Greece, and we also see other Anatolian samples from different timelines to completely be the same with Bronze Age native Anatolians.
Roman era Anatolians did have some Genetic influence from the Mycenaeans and the Levant which is true, but not at a "large" extent. Even if they were 30% Ancient Greeks, they won't be ancient Greek.
Here's their admixture:

Here are the only Anatolian samples with Ancient Greek influence among them:

The only confirmed Roman-era Greek sample indicates a significant Anatolian shift, suggesting that the DNA of ancient Greeks during this period was nearly extinct. This sample shows very low levels of ancient Greek autosomal DNA and contains a considerable amount of non-European base components when compared to the Mycenaeans and ancient Greeks from Iron Age Delphi.

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