In one of Oppenheimer's books, he said that about 50% of Europeans can trace their DNA to a guy in the north Indus valley who made their way to Europe through the Middle East. The other 50% of Europeans can trace their DNA to the same region to a son of the same man who made their way to Europe via Russia a thousand years later.
My people took the route through Russia and wound up in the Franco-Iberian refuge before expanding back north after the Ice Age.
I have submitted a sample to check my mtDNA now.