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Found (as far as I know) with most frequency in northwest Italy.
r1b u152 tree with me.JPG
My subclade Z44 seems a bit mysterious. Will be interesting to see as more people's Y-Dna is collected in years to come. As far as I know I have no known Italian ancestry, but that doesn't rule out Roman colonization as a potential source in my case. Other than that it could have been residual Z56 in or north of the Alps within Gaulish people. People under S47 in general seem to come from across Europe, and I've heard speculation that there could have been settlement somewhere in the Rhône valley, which then spread in multiple direction, some migrating to Italy across the alps, while others migrating towards Switzerland and Southern Germany.
My paternal ancestry is German.
Map of current distribution of R-Z56 based on current data.
Z56 MAP.png
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