Answering the Albanian Question

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Illyrian. IBD (Identity By Descent) is basically long chunks of genome that are shared between pairs of individuals due to inheritance from recent common ancestors, used to obtain a detailed view of the geographic structure of recent relatedness. To determine the time scale of these relationships, a methodology that uses the lengths of shared genomic segments to infer the distribution of the ages of common ancestors was developed.
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001555#pbio.1001555.s012

So far the longest IBD sequence is found among Albanians, which means that with the exception of those mongrels that live in Eastern Turkey, Modern-day Albanians can track their genealogy to around 90 common ancestors who lived in the 5th century.