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Italy's north south genetic divide revealed: First-ever study into Italians' genetic diversity reveals it dates back 19,000 years
Yes it is the tabloid Daily Mail tabloid but they do link to the actual scientific paper.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...diversity-reveals-dates-19-000-years-ago.html
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Northern Italians are like Northern Euros. Southern Italians are more like Greeks and Mediterranean folks. Sardinians are unique in retaining ancient Neolithic Anatolian farmer dna.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-earli...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
Results also show that there are genetic peculiarities characterizing people living in the north and south of Italy that evolved in response to different environments.
The DNA of people living in northern Italy shows traces of these post-glacial migrations. If compared to individuals from southern Italy, Italians from the north present a close genetic relation to human remains attributed to ancient European cultures such as the Magdalenian and the Epigravettian cultures and dated respectively between 19,000 and 14,000 years ago and between 14,000 and 9,000 years ago. Moreover, in northern Italians' gene pool, the researchers observed ancestry components that were even more ancient, such as those proper of eastern European hunter-gatherers, which are thought to characterize all European populations between 36,000 and 26,000 years ago, and that later on spread to western Europe with migratory movements from "glacial refugia" during the Late Glacial period.
Conversely, in southern Italians, these post-glacial migrations traces seem to vanish, as more recent events significantly reshaped their gene pool. This is confirmed by their closer genetic relation with Neolithic human remains from Anatolia and the Middle East, and with Bronze-Age remains from south Caucasus.
Nineteen thousand years ago, after the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, ancestors of northern and southern Italians started living in increasingly different environmental and ecological contexts, which gradually led to the emergence of differences and peculiarities in their gene pools.
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https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-020-00778-4
Look at the stark difference in the Near Eastern ancestry in Northern Italians vs. Southern Italians. And the level of Northern Euro ancestry in Northern Italy vs. Southern Italy. Also the North has a Basque component (component that is highest in Basque peoples) which is lacking in the South.
Italy's north south genetic divide revealed: First-ever study into Italians' genetic diversity reveals it dates back 19,000 years
Yes it is the tabloid Daily Mail tabloid but they do link to the actual scientific paper.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...diversity-reveals-dates-19-000-years-ago.html
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Northern Italians are like Northern Euros. Southern Italians are more like Greeks and Mediterranean folks. Sardinians are unique in retaining ancient Neolithic Anatolian farmer dna.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-earli...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
Results also show that there are genetic peculiarities characterizing people living in the north and south of Italy that evolved in response to different environments.
The DNA of people living in northern Italy shows traces of these post-glacial migrations. If compared to individuals from southern Italy, Italians from the north present a close genetic relation to human remains attributed to ancient European cultures such as the Magdalenian and the Epigravettian cultures and dated respectively between 19,000 and 14,000 years ago and between 14,000 and 9,000 years ago. Moreover, in northern Italians' gene pool, the researchers observed ancestry components that were even more ancient, such as those proper of eastern European hunter-gatherers, which are thought to characterize all European populations between 36,000 and 26,000 years ago, and that later on spread to western Europe with migratory movements from "glacial refugia" during the Late Glacial period.
Conversely, in southern Italians, these post-glacial migrations traces seem to vanish, as more recent events significantly reshaped their gene pool. This is confirmed by their closer genetic relation with Neolithic human remains from Anatolia and the Middle East, and with Bronze-Age remains from south Caucasus.
Nineteen thousand years ago, after the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, ancestors of northern and southern Italians started living in increasingly different environmental and ecological contexts, which gradually led to the emergence of differences and peculiarities in their gene pools.
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https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-020-00778-4
Look at the stark difference in the Near Eastern ancestry in Northern Italians vs. Southern Italians. And the level of Northern Euro ancestry in Northern Italy vs. Southern Italy. Also the North has a Basque component (component that is highest in Basque peoples) which is lacking in the South.
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