As I noted previously, many Northern European nationalities have an astonishingly close relationship to the Pre-Roman, Ancient Egyptians, in particular, the Scotts. Here’s the cluster distribution for a 4,000 year old Egyptian genome, with a minimum 99.7% matching threshold. That is, all of the genomes in the cluster have at least 99.7% of their mtDNA genome in common with the Ancient Egyptian genome.

This is really amazing, so I continued to probe the question, and noticed that if you reduce the matching threshold to 99%, you produce the following graph, showing a plain connection to Nepal.

This could explain the physical appearance of the Ancient Egyptians before Rome, who were definitely not Mediterranean.

Moreover, if you construct clusters for Northern Europeans, you find the same connection to Nepal. This suggests a migration out of Nepal, back to Africa, and the eventual dispersal around Europe of a single group of people that seems to have originated in Nepal. Why they would go to Northern Europe is not clear to me, but it seems that’s exactly what happened.

Here’s the dataset, which includes links to the NIH database for every genome:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ht5g2rqg090himo/mtDNA.zip?dl=0