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Dutch DNA: ancient origins on the North Sea's busiest shore

The Netherlands sits at the heart of the Beaker world and the launch coast of the Anglo-Saxon migration. What ancient DNA shows about Dutch ancestry, the country's surprising internal cline, and how to read a Dutch genome.

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  1. From the wetlands to the Beaker heartland
  2. The launch coast, and the cline
  3. Reading your own results
  4. Frequently asked questions
  5. Are the Dutch and the English genetically similar?
  6. Are Frisians a distinct people genetically?
  7. How homogeneous is the Netherlands?
  8. Sources and further reading

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