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The new study measuring Yamnaya input into Europe found that all European ethnicities' genes can be explained by population movements from prehistoric times, without recent input into Europe EXCEPT four: Spanish, Sicilians, Maltese and Ashkenazi Jews.
Does this suggest shared Phoenician ancestry between the former 3, keeping in mind that Sardinian, northern Spanish, Greeks, and other Southern ethnicities did not score the Bedouin component in high amount, a proxy for excess Near East DNA. The Phoenician colonies in the Mediterranean centered around southern Spain, Sicily and Malta.
Here was the table. "Spanish" must mean southern since northern Spain was separate, and the Sicilian cluster is a mixture of Trapani and Syracuse at opposite ends of the island.
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