Хаплогрупу E-V13 ипак одвајају од горе поменутог комплекса хаплогрупa, али му не одричу могућност присуства у "West Central Ballkan", тј. спекулишу да постоји нека западно-централно балканска група, која још није археогентички испитана, која је могла носити E-V13. У ствари, доста је растегљив овај термин West Central Balkan, који може обухватити нпр. и Дарданце. Значи иако повезују E-V13 са Трачанима, не негирају овој хаплогрупи старије присуство и на Западном Балкану. ово су дијелови који се односе на хаплогрупу E-V13.
"Despite being one of the most frequent haplogroups in modern Balkan populations (67, 80–83), the origins of E-V13 are enigmatic. The earliest record of this haplogroup among historically attested groups is in BA-IA Bulgaria (Figs. 8-9, S10), suggesting an association with the people known as the “Thracians”. By the early Roman era, E-V13 likely experienced significant demographic increase, as it appears at medium to high frequencies in areas where in the preceding Bronze and Iron Age it was either very rare (Croatia, Hungary) or entirely absent (Serbia) (Figs. 8-9). An association of the expansion of E-V13 with southeastern Balkan populations from the Thracian world is reinforced by one of the Avar-era outliers from Hungary, who is assigned to EV13 and clusters with BA-IA populations from Bulgaria on the PCA (Fig. 5A), an affinity confirmed by qpAdm (Table S14), and IBD-sharing (Table S21) (50). A Scythian from Moldova (Table S21) who clusters close to Balkan IA populations (Fig. 4A) and belongs to E-V13 (Fig. S10) also displays IBD-sharing with Bulgaria IA (Table 21). Our findings support late Roman historical records which mention the presence of “Thracian” groups known as the “Bessi” throughout the Balkans until the 6th century CE (2, 36, 62, 64)."
"Unlike the abovementioned haplogroups, E-V13 exhibits continuous subclade diversification from the Bronze Age to the Roman period (Fig. 10), suggesting that populations with a high frequency of E-V13 may have followed a different demographic trajectory from those with J2b-Z600, R1bBY611, R1b-PF7562, and I-M223. The rate of E-V13 subclade diversification increased steeply from 500 CE onwards, following the pattern of the other haplogroups found in modern Albanians (Fig. 10). Based on the above, it is possible that currently unsampled populations from the CentralWest Balkan interior that were characterised by high frequencies of E-V13 may have entered the region of modern Albania around 500 CE, where they merged and co-expanded with local groups. This may also explain the absence of E-V13 from the aDNA transect of Albania, despite being the commonest haplogroup in the modern Albanian population."