The swarthiest Europeans - say which group and why.

[Lavrentis]

And I do think some Cretans and Dodecanese also, but they are the same genetically as southern Italians and Maltese, not Cypriot or Levantine.

Greece is close to Anatolia. It's only logical that there would be some assimilated Anatolians in the Greek islands.

[Kamal900]

Maltese people have naturally white skin. There are no people in Europe that doesn't have this feature. Cypriots are genetically not European at all really. Geographically, I wouldn't place Cyprus in Europe either IMO.

And I cluster with the Cypriots as well very closely while being genetically very distant from Europeans as a whole.

[Vyasa]

Italians say "Africa starts in Rome" for a reason

[Sikeliot]

If cretans were the only population between Greek mean and Cypriot, and If Cypriots were not genetically so close to the Levant, there would be continuity and Cypriots would be genetically Greek too

No. Genetic Greece ends at the mainland. Cretans, Sicilians, Cypriots are their own genetic cluster and not part of genetic Greece. Cretans are closer to southern Italians than to any mainland Greek.

[MedBreeze]

Maltese people have naturally white skin. There are no people in Europe that doesn't have this feature. Cypriots are genetically not European at all really. Geographically, I wouldn't place Cyprus in Europe either IMO.

cypriots cretans and islands are greeks. they are european

[Sikeliot]

cypriots cretans and islands are greeks. they are european

They're not even all the same genetically. Cypriots are almost full blown Levantines. Cretans are similar to Sicilians.

[Voskos]

Maltese people have naturally white skin. There are no people in Europe that doesn't have this feature. Cypriots are genetically not European at all really. Geographically, I wouldn't place Cyprus in Europe either IMO.

good joke.maltese score subsaharan and more north african than cypriots, plus their language has arabic words in it.

[brennus dux gallorum]

Sikeliot

To be more precise
https://m.imgur.com/2ufwMeL?r

Everything within this red frame (which includes both Crete and dodecanese) is genetically Greek

There is nothing indicating that Greek dna ends at mainland

[Sikeliot]

Sikeliot

To be more precise
https://m.imgur.com/2ufwMeL?r

Everything within this red frame (which includes both Crete and dodecanese) is genetically Greek

Ok but Cretans/Dodecanese are close to both Sicily and Ashkenazim genetically, not mainland Greeks who will be plotting at the north of that red box...

[RN97]

They're not even all the same genetically. Cypriots are almost full blown Levantines. Cretans are similar to Sicilians.

Do you have a PCA with Maltese on it fam?