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A 2018 genetic study, focusing on the Y-chromosome and haplogroups lineages, their diversity and their distribution by taking some 817 representative subjects, gives credit to the traditional northern-southern division in population, by concluding that due to Neolithic migrations southern Italians "show a higher similarity with Middle Eastern ...
Mar 16, 2023 · A brand new DNA study found that the modern populations of southern Italy, Sicily, Greece and Cyprus have very close genetic similarities, an unsurprising fact considering that they are all descended from the Ancient Greeks.
Jan 17, 2022 · The new genomic sequences of Daunian samples reveal that Iron Age (pre-Roman) Southern Italy (Apulia) can be placed within a Pan-Mediterranean genetic continuum that stretches from Crete (Minoans; Lazaridis et al. 2017) and the Levant (Sea People; Feldman, Master, et al. 2019; Molinaro et al. 2019) to the Republican Rome and the Iberian ...
Feb 4, 2021 · In this study, we collected and analyzed a total of 149 Southern Italian individuals belonging to 11 villages from the Aspromonte mountain area of Reggio Calabria (Southern Calabria), 4...
- Stefania Sarno, Rosalba Petrilli, Paolo Abondio, Andrea De Giovanni, Alessio Boattini, Marco Sazzini...
- 2021
Feb 4, 2021 · To understand their genetic ancestry and explore possible effects of geographic and cultural isolation, we genome-wide genotyped a large set of South Italian samples including both communities that still speak Greco nowadays and those that lost the use of this language earlier in time.
- Stefania Sarno, Rosalba Petrilli, Paolo Abondio, Andrea De Giovanni, Alessio Boattini, Marco Sazzini...
- 10.1038/s41598-021-82591-9
- 2021
- Sci Rep. 2021; 11: 3045.
Jul 15, 2015 · To estimate the contribution of Greek colonisers to present-day southern Italian communities, we applied a hypothesis-testing approach based on the deviation from observed values of the...
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Sep 4, 2019 · An arrival of the CHG-related component in Southern Italy from the Southern part of the Balkan Peninsula, including the Peloponnese, is compatible with the identification of genetic corridors linking the two regions (Fig. 1E) and the presence of Southern European ancient signatures in Italy (Fig. 2).
