Genetically closest Greek region to Sicily?

[Sikeliot]

Have we ever come to a conclusion on this?

Based on these, all of the islanders are roughly equidistant, but the mainlanders all further: http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?215712-New-Greek-results-on-PuntDNA-L-K13-from-all-over-the-islands-and-mainland

Based on other studies they just put them in a continuum with Crete, Dodecanese, and the southernmost Peloponnesians.

[Sikeliot]

Going based on distances to the Sicilian reference population this is what we have, based on average of the distances in PuntDNA-L K13 of the results I have run.

It seems like Sicilians are actually closer to the non-Cretan islanders, than to Cretans though some of the other islands shift toward the mainland more. Thessaly is by far the furthest away result, in "other mainland".

Ikaria and Cyclades had the most textbook Sicilian-like results, but overall Dodecanese islanders seem to be closer than the North Aegean, so if you had to take an island group AS A WHOLE it must be Dodecanese. Cyclades has some outliers that shift too far to the mainland.

North Aegean: 2.94, 2.98, 3.36, 3.78, 4.19, 4.43, 5.5, 5.51, 5.93, 6.71, 7.05, 8.08, 9.68
Cyclades: 3.12, 3.62, 3.77, 3.98, 4.93, 5.36, 5.53, 5.64, 9.34, 9.36
Dodecanese: 3.97, 4.59, 4.5, 4.75, 5.03, 5.1, 5.2, 5.57, 5.77, 6.08, 6.2, 6.44, 6.93, 7.15, 7.18
Crete: 4, 5.07, 5.11, 6.29, 6.87, 8.35
Kefalonia: 2.46, 6.85, 7.76
Laconia: 9.22
Peloponnese: 5.47, 10.12, 11.34
Other Mainland: 8.28, 8.53, 8.88, 9.62, 9.81, 9.82, 10.06, 10.87, 11.36, 11.93, 12.8, 13.01

[joanna_38]

Ionian Islands

[Sikeliot]

Ionian Islands

Ionian islands have Italian input, but the south Aegean is more like Sicily.

[AK-47]

Ionian islands, Kythira.
Or South Aegean Cyclades.

[Sikeliot]

Ionian islands, Kythira.
Or South Aegean Cyclades.

In my experience it depends on the individual but it is probably eastern Crete. Western Crete has some "northern" type admixture making them more like the Cyclades.

Ionian islands are too genetically north to be Sicilian. I don't know why people think this. Is it because they have known Italian influence? That was Venetian, not southern Italian.

[AK-47]

In my experience it depends on the individual but it is probably eastern Crete. Western Crete has some "northern" type admixture making them more like the Cyclades.

Ionian islands are too genetically north to be Sicilian. I don't know why people think this. Is it because they have known Italian influence? That was Venetian, not southern Italian.
Do you think the very high levels of J2 in Crete, matches up to Sicilian levels of J2?

[Sikeliot]

Do you think the very high levels of J2 in Crete, matches up to Sicilian levels of J2?

I'm not going by haplogroups but autosomal DNA.

Why do you think the Ionian islands are similar to Sicily? They are more similar to Peloponnesians (Ionians are).

[kleenex]

It seems that Cyclades are way closer to Peloponnese than Dodecanese or Eastern Crete. I would say Dodecanese Islands are closest to Western Siciliy. Maybe Cyclades/West Crete/Maniots are farily close to Eastern Siciliy and then the rest of the Peloponnese to Abruzzo, Apulia, Marche (on a cline).

[AK-47]

I'm not going by haplogroups but autosomal DNA.

Why do you think the Ionian islands are similar to Sicily? They are more similar to Peloponnesians (Ionians are).
Kythira was the only Ionian island that I was referring to.
Not the others.

[Sikeliot]

Kythira was the only Ionian island that I was referring to.
Not the others.

Kythera isn't an Ionian island. Ionian islands are Zakynthos, Corfu, and Kefalonia. :)

[AK-47]

Kythera isn't an Ionian island. Ionian islands are Zakynthos, Corfu, and Kefalonia. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Islands
It's my understanding that Kythera is considered one of the Heptanese, i.e. "the Seven Islands."

"The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: Ιόνια νησιά, Ionia nisia; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: Ἰόνιοι Νῆσοι, Ionioi Nēsoi; Italian: Isole Ionie) are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese, i.e. "the Seven Islands" (Greek: Ἑπτάνησα, Heptanēsa or Ἑπτάνησος, Heptanēsos; Italian: Eptaneso), but the group includes many smaller islands as well as the seven principal ones."


"The seven islands are; from north to south:

Kerkyra (Κέρκυρα) usually known as Corfu in English and Corfù in Italian
Paxi (Παξοί) also known as Paxos in English
Lefkada (Λευκάδα) also known as Lefkas in English
Ithaki (Ιθάκη) usually known as Ithaca in English
Kefalonia (Κεφαλλονιά) often known as Kefalonia, Cephalonia and Kefallinia in English
Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος) sometimes known as Zante in English and Italian
Kythira (Κύθηρα) usually known as Cythera in English and sometimes known as Cerigo in English and Italian"

[Sikeliot]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Islands
It's my understanding that Kythera is considered one Heptanese, i.e. "the Seven Islands."

"The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: Ιόνια νησιά, Ionia nisia; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: Ἰόνιοι Νῆσοι, Ionioi Nēsoi; Italian: Isole Ionie) are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese, i.e. "the Seven Islands" (Greek: Ἑπτάνησα, Heptanēsa or Ἑπτάνησος, Heptanēsos; Italian: Eptaneso), but the group includes many smaller islands as well as the seven principal ones."


"The seven islands are; from north to south:

Kerkyra (Κέρκυρα) usually known as Corfu in English and Corfù in Italian
Paxi (Παξοί) also known as Paxos in English
Lefkada (Λευκάδα) also known as Lefkas in English
Ithaki (Ιθάκη) usually known as Ithaca in English
Kefalonia (Κεφαλλονιά) often known as Kefalonia, Cephalonia and Kefallinia in English
Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος) sometimes known as Zante in English and Italian
Kythira (Κύθηρα) usually known as Cythera in English and sometimes known as Cerigo in English and Italian


Hmm. Interesting. Genetically though, Kythera is different... they have some Phoenician input which the other Greek islands do not have.

[AK-47]

Hmm. Interesting. Genetically though, Kythera is different... they have some Phoenician input which the other Greek islands do not have.

Look at the close proximity of Kythera to Ashkenazim.
https://s15.postimg.org/xgos714bt/mds.jpg
https://s15.postimg.org/xgos714bt/mds.jpg

[Sikeliot]

It seems that Cyclades are way closer to Peloponnese than Dodecanese or Eastern Crete. I would say Dodecanese Islands are closest to Western Siciliy. Maybe Cyclades/West Crete/Maniots are farily close to Eastern Siciliy and then the rest of the Peloponnese to Abruzzo, Apulia, Marche (on a cline).

In my experience all of the islands south of Chios down to Rhodes are similar to one another and to most Sicilians. There seems to be no real pattern of which Sicilian group is closest. Euboea and Samos differ. Examples:

Euboea:

# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 36.62
2 European_Early_Farmers 24.27
3 European_Hunters_Gatherers 18.65
4 Near_East 8.04
5 North_African 4.62
6 South_Central_Asian 4.02
7 Melano_Polynesian 1.14


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Greek_Peloponnesos_ @ 3.876256
2 Greek_Thessaly_ @ 4.308594
3 Greek_Northwest_ @ 4.511407
4 Albanian_Tirana_ @ 4.616592
5 Greek_Thessaloniki_ @ 4.970438
6 Central_Greek_ @ 5.351983
7 Kosovar_ @ 5.885083
8 Ashkenazi_ @ 6.292189
9 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 7.484622
10 Greek_ @ 7.596495
11 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 7.689717
12 Greek_Athens_ @ 7.984035
13 Sicilian_West_ @ 8.338630
14 Romanian_Jew_ @ 8.713109
15 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 8.752924
16 Greek_Macedonia_ @ 9.065061
17 Sicilian_East_ @ 9.224330
18 Italian_Abruzzo_ @ 9.274311
19 Italian_Tuscan_ @ 9.449917
20 Italian_South_ @ 9.483245

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Ashkenazi_Jew_ +50% Kosovar_ @ 1.984952

Chios, Samos:

# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 37.85
2 European_Early_Farmers 24.61
3 European_Hunters_Gatherers 14.92
4 Near_East 9.20
5 South_Central_Asian 5.90
6 North_African 3.57
7 East_African 1.31
8 Ancestral_Altaic 1.16


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 4.934655
2 Ashkenazi_ @ 5.186666
3 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 5.276320
4 Central_Greek_ @ 5.597280
5 Sicilian_West_ @ 5.643771
6 Greek_Athens_ @ 6.061123
7 Greek_Peloponnesos_ @ 6.352463
8 Sicilian_East_ @ 6.526229
9 Greek_ @ 6.540460
10 Romanian_Jew_ @ 6.566576
11 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 6.649143
12 Italian_Abruzzo_ @ 7.031085
13 Italian_South_ @ 7.073497
14 Greek_Northwest_ @ 7.251570
15 Greek_Thessaly_ @ 7.320284
16 Albanian_Tirana_ @ 7.409243
17 Sicilian_Center_ @ 7.681497
18 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 7.856224
19 Greek_Phokaia_ @ 7.931471
20 Greek_Thessaloniki_ @ 8.069329

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Central_Greek_ +50% Sicilian_West_ @ 1.965731


Samos, Euboea:
# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 38.19
2 European_Early_Farmers 24.41
3 European_Hunters_Gatherers 19.14
4 Near_East 7.36
5 North_African 4.46
6 South_Central_Asian 2.30
7 Ancestral_Altaic 1.29


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Greek_Thessaly_ @ 3.078298
2 Albanian_Tirana_ @ 3.421543
3 Greek_Peloponnesos_ @ 3.739264
4 Greek_Thessaloniki_ @ 4.030472
5 Central_Greek_ @ 4.680502
6 Greek_Northwest_ @ 4.975305
7 Kosovar_ @ 5.403484
8 Ashkenazi_ @ 6.354298
9 Greek_ @ 7.212559
10 Greek_Athens_ @ 7.526716
11 Greek_Macedonia_ @ 8.379112
12 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 8.443113
13 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 8.498342
14 Romanian_Jew_ @ 8.687149
15 Greek_Phokaia_ @ 9.053618
16 Italian_South_ @ 9.166773
17 Sicilian_Center_ @ 9.647857
18 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 10.049376
19 Sicilian_East_ @ 10.052971
20 Sicilian_West_ @ 10.103396

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Ashkenazi_ +50% Kosovar_ @ 1.724084


Crete and Cyclades:

# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 39.62
2 European_Early_Farmers 19.98
3 European_Hunters_Gatherers 14.60
4 Near_East 10.43
5 South_Central_Asian 5.45
6 North_African 5.17
7 Ancestral_Altaic 2.15


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Romanian_Jew_ @ 4.071739
2 Greek_ @ 4.206921
3 Ashkenazi_ @ 4.344291
4 Greek_Athens_ @ 4.608813
5 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 4.672342
6 Italian_South_ @ 5.229515
7 Cretan_ @ 5.373461
8 Greek_Phokaia_ @ 5.423815
9 Greek_Macedonia_ @ 5.708701
10 Central_Greek_ @ 6.222698
11 Sicilian_East_ @ 6.382300
12 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 6.435584
13 Greek_Peloponnesos_ @ 7.256566
14 Sicilian_Center_ @ 7.381188
15 Sicilian_West_ @ 7.536551
16 Crimean_Tatar_Mountain_ @ 8.620335
17 Greek_Thessaloniki_ @ 8.738802
18 Greek_Thessaly_ @ 8.866179
19 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 8.911971
20 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 9.071031

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Ashkenazi_Jew_ +50% Greek_Macedonia_ @ 1.962212

Chios:

# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 37.68
2 European_Early_Farmers 21.71
3 European_Hunters_Gatherers 10.87
4 Near_East 10.61
5 South_Central_Asian 9.15
6 North_African 7.14
7 Australoid 1.48


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Sicilian_West_ @ 5.102257
2 Cretan_ @ 5.114392
3 Sicilian_East_ @ 5.257245
4 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 5.412977
5 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 5.798715
6 French_Jew_ @ 6.276731
7 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 6.501321
8 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 6.910309
9 Maltese_ @ 7.194956
10 Romanian_Jew_ @ 7.337000
11 Ashkenazi_ @ 7.448367
12 Greek_Smyrna_ @ 7.976424
13 Italian_South_ @ 8.115866
14 Sephardic_Jew_ @ 8.388445
15 Turk_Jew_ @ 8.837576
16 Sicilian_Center_ @ 8.867081
17 Italian_Jew_ @ 8.874988
18 Greek_Athens_ @ 8.975769
19 Greek_ @ 9.686773
20 Turk_Balikesir_ @ 9.902555

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Cretan_ +50% Sicilian_West_ @ 2.941904

Kalymnos:
# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 40.39
2 European_Early_Farmers 23.11
3 Near_East 11.75
4 European_Hunters_Gatherers 8.09
5 South_Central_Asian 6.34
6 North_African 5.20
7 South_Indian 2.69
8 Tungus-Altaic 1.23


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Cretan_ @ 5.271710
2 Greek_Smyrna_ @ 5.381950
3 Sicilian_East_ @ 5.531998
4 Greek_Islands_ @ 5.553702
5 French_Jew_ @ 5.655569
6 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 6.266049
7 Romanian_Jew_ @ 6.407005
8 Sicilian_Center_ @ 6.545424
9 Italian_South_ @ 6.682125
10 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 6.977184
11 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 7.006659
12 Italian_Jew_ @ 7.192544
13 Sephardic_Jew_ @ 7.664766
14 Turk_Jew_ @ 7.684366
15 Ashkenazi_ @ 7.696031
16 Sicilian_West_ @ 7.943190
17 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 8.255814
18 Maltese_ @ 8.351495
19 Greek_Athens_ @ 8.577902
20 Greek_Phokaia_ @ 9.137504

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Greek_Islands_ +50% Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 2.920420


Ikaria:

# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 39.53
2 European_Early_Farmers 22.50
3 Near_East 10.38
4 South_Central_Asian 7.68
5 European_Hunters_Gatherers 7.36
6 North_African 6.51
7 South_Indian 3.19
8 Ancestral_Altaic 1.82


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 French_Jew_ @ 5.229264
2 Cretan_ @ 5.955973
3 Greek_Smyrna_ @ 6.303223
4 Sicilian_East_ @ 6.360388
5 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 6.684047
6 Greek_Islands_ @ 6.959866
7 Italian_Jew_ @ 7.035645
8 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 7.082986
9 Sephardic_Jew_ @ 7.190828
10 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 7.194243
11 Romanian_Jew_ @ 7.196656
12 Turk_Jew_ @ 7.596703
13 Maltese_ @ 7.766644
14 Sicilian_West_ @ 7.859968
15 Italian_South_ @ 7.982938
16 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 8.096332
17 Sicilian_Center_ @ 8.101491
18 Ashkenazi_ @ 8.594540
19 Greek_Athens_ @ 9.612736
20 Greek_Phokaia_ @ 10.432701

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Greek_Smyrna_ +50% Maltese_ @ 3.472572


Ikaria:

# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 41.28
2 European_Early_Farmers 23.22
3 Near_East 11.81
4 European_Hunters_Gatherers 9.45
5 South_Central_Asian 5.92
6 North_African 3.06
7 Ancestral_Altaic 1.77
8 South_Indian 1.03


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Greek_Smyrna_ @ 4.434649
2 Cretan_ @ 4.689856
3 Greek_Islands_ @ 4.816885
4 Italian_South_ @ 5.548266
5 Romanian_Jew_ @ 5.701836
6 Sicilian_Center_ @ 6.125081
7 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 6.158867
8 Sicilian_East_ @ 6.192478
9 Greek_Athens_ @ 6.755655
10 Greek_Phokaia_ @ 6.862266
11 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 6.906408
12 Ashkenazi_ @ 7.351294
13 French_Jew_ @ 7.674810
14 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 8.072715
15 Greek_ @ 8.090850
16 Sicilian_West_ @ 8.230726
17 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 8.878284
18 Italian_Jew_ @ 9.197726
19 Turk_Jew_ @ 9.504438
20 Maltese_ @ 9.609796

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Greek_Smyrna_ +50% Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 2.128559


Kalymnos:

# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 37.40
2 European_Early_Farmers 23.42
3 Near_East 11.23
4 South_Central_Asian 9.94
5 European_Hunters_Gatherers 8.87
6 North_African 4.07
7 Ancestral_Altaic 2.64
8 Austronesian 1.28


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Sicilian_West_ @ 6.078701
2 Cretan_ @ 6.501275
3 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 6.584761
4 Greek_Smyrna_ @ 6.589136
5 French_Jew_ @ 7.274514
6 Sicilian_East_ @ 7.354875
7 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 7.370181
8 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 7.500127
9 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 7.747195
10 Maltese_ @ 8.718509
11 Sephardic_Jew_ @ 8.778319
12 Romanian_Jew_ @ 8.925842
13 Greek_Islands_ @ 9.175272
14 Turk_Jew_ @ 9.493328
15 Italian_Jew_ @ 9.581858
16 Ashkenazi_ @ 9.623359
17 Italian_South_ @ 9.688215
18 Italian_Abruzzo_ @ 9.813752
19 Sicilian_Center_ @ 10.132666
20 Greek_Athens_ @ 10.204544

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Assyrian_Iraqi_ +50% Italian_Piedmont_ @ 2.224599


Andros:
# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 36.84
2 European_Early_Farmers 20.98
3 European_Hunters_Gatherers 15.48
4 Near_East 9.62
5 South_Central_Asian 7.70
6 North_African 5.08
7 Ancestral_Altaic 2.31
8 Amerindian 1.00


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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 5.036316
2 Sicilian_West_ @ 5.800199
3 Ashkenazi_ @ 6.031151
4 Greek_ @ 6.696653
5 Romanian_Jew_ @ 6.880560
6 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 6.946570
7 Central_Greek_ @ 6.949057
8 Greek_Peloponnesos_ @ 7.097581
9 Greek_Athens_ @ 7.106637
10 Cretan_ @ 7.321567
11 Sicilian_East_ @ 7.346923
12 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 7.967650
13 Crimean_Tatar_Mountain_ @ 8.148063
14 Italian_South_ @ 8.199277
15 Greek_Macedonia_ @ 8.214838
16 Greek_Northwest_ @ 8.368969
17 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 8.512627
18 Greek_Phokaia_ @ 8.567858
19 Greek_Thessaloniki_ @ 8.584517
20 Greek_Thessaly_ @ 8.694285

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Crimean_Tatar_Mountain_ +50% Sicilian_West_ @ 3.205313


Andros:
# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 36.42
2 European_Early_Farmers 23.54
3 European_Hunters_Gatherers 11.43
4 Near_East 10.55
5 South_Central_Asian 6.79
6 North_African 5.57
7 Australoid 1.45


Finished reading population data. 620 populations found.
23 components mode.

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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Sicilian_West_ @ 3.014183
2 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 3.851106
3 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 3.931549
4 Sicilian_East_ @ 4.385035
5 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 4.579704
6 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 4.710043
7 Maltese_ @ 5.882181
8 Ashkenazi_ @ 5.883376
9 French_Jew_ @ 6.292793
10 Romanian_Jew_ @ 6.453343
11 Cretan_ @ 6.615807
12 Sicilian_Center_ @ 7.415609
13 Italian_South_ @ 7.742931
14 Italian_Abruzzo_ @ 7.883684
15 Greek_Athens_ @ 8.406292
16 Greek_Smyrna_ @ 8.989958
17 Sephardic_Jew_ @ 9.080424
18 Italian_Jew_ @ 9.108439
19 Greek_ @ 9.149619
20 Turk_Jew_ @ 9.248892

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Sicilian_East_ +50% Sicilian_West_ @ 2.675734


Kythera:
# Population Percent
1 Caucasian 40.73
2 European_Early_Farmers 18.77
3 European_Hunters_Gatherers 13.76
4 Near_East 12.20
5 South_Central_Asian 5.94
6 North_African 4.43
7 Ancestral_Altaic 3.35


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23 components mode.

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Least-squares method.

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Cretan_ @ 4.457844
2 Greek_Phokaia_ @ 5.109676
3 Greek_ @ 5.265566
4 Romanian_Jew_ @ 5.437239
5 Greek_Athens_ @ 5.866355
6 Greek_Macedonia_ @ 6.041390
7 Italian_South_ @ 6.256863
8 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 6.556034
9 Ashkenazi_ @ 6.750280
10 Sicilian_East_ @ 7.711617
11 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 8.111277
12 Central_Greek_ @ 8.130643
13 Greek_Smyrna_ @ 8.516107
14 Sicilian_Center_ @ 8.518329
15 Sicilian_West_ @ 9.123507
16 Greek_Peloponnesos_ @ 9.246086
17 Greek_Islands_ @ 9.277185
18 Azov_Greek_ @ 9.324165
19 Turk_Balikesir_ @ 9.781296
20 Crimean_Tatar_Mountain_ @ 9.857616

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Druze_ +50% Italian_North_ @ 2.044387

[Mingle]

Dodecanese I think. Next would probably be the Ionian Islands, followed by the Cyclades, and then Crete. What are the genetic differences between Dodecanese Islanders and Sicilians?

[Sikeliot]

What are the genetic differences between Dodecanese Islanders and Sicilians?

When there is actually a difference, Dodecanese are about 5% more Caucasian. Basically, what Sicilians have in North African, Dodecanese lack and make up the difference in Caucasian. That is really the only difference.

But some Sicilians do have Dodecanese levels of Caucasian AND have North African. So it really depends.

[brennus dux gallorum]

It's interesting how many people have mentioned ionian islands, something that I, as a (half) ionian islander don't confirm either in terms of results, or racial types

Ionian islands are racially like peloponnese/central Greece and cyclades plotting south-west among Greek people and I don't think there is any Italian input

@ak-47 kythera was politically eptanesian, but has nothing to do with ionian sea, it's an Aegean island

[Sikeliot]

Look at the close proximity of Kythera to Ashkenazim.
https://s15.postimg.org/xgos714bt/mds.jpg
https://s15.postimg.org/xgos714bt/mds.jpg

This plot is somewhat outdated as it's based on very few samples.

[Sikeliot]

Look at the close proximity of Kythera to Ashkenazim.
https://s15.postimg.org/xgos714bt/mds.jpg
https://s15.postimg.org/xgos714bt/mds.jpg

This plot is somewhat outdated as it's based on very few samples.