Southeast Sicily and Apulia: higher preservation of original Italic and Greek DNA?

[Sikeliot]

By this I mean compared to western, central, and northeast Sicily as well as Calabria, where there is definitely the higher Near Eastern and even North African input that southern Italy is known to have via genetic studies.

Compare this result of my cousin who is from Palermo which is definitely more Levantine than the results below:

# Population Percent
1 East_Med 30.08
2 West_Med 17.11
3 West_Asian 14.11
4 Atlantic 13.41
5 North_Sea 11.12
6 Red_Sea 7.27
7 Baltic 2.83
8 Northeast_African 1.33
9 Eastern_Euro 0.95
10 Sub-Saharan 0.73
11 Oceanian 0.59
12 Southeast_Asian 0.3
13 Siberian 0.18

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 South_Italian 4.4
2 East_Sicilian 4.53
3 Italian_Jewish 4.84
4 Central_Greek 5.96
5 Sephardic_Jewish 6.52
6 Italian_Abruzzo 6.76
7 West_Sicilian 6.78
8 Ashkenazi 6.88
9 Algerian_Jewish 7.45
10 Tunisian_Jewish 10.49
11 Libyan_Jewish 11.58
12 Greek_Thessaly 11.83
13 Tuscan 11.85
14 Greek 12.11
15 Cyprian 13.66
16 Lebanese_Muslim 16.58
17 Syrian 17.22
18 North_Italian 18.37
19 Turkish 18.87
20 Bulgarian 19.3

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 63.9% Italian_Abruzzo + 36.1% Libyan_Jewish @ 2.14
2 59.8% Italian_Jewish + 40.2% Italian_Abruzzo @ 2.26
3 54.5% Lebanese_Christian + 45.5% Portuguese @ 2.5
4 64.3% Tuscan + 35.7% Lebanese_Christian @ 2.66
5 52.5% East_Sicilian + 47.5% Italian_Jewish @ 2.72
6 53.3% North_Italian + 46.7% Lebanese_Christian @ 2.74
7 65.7% Cyprian + 34.3% Spanish_Galicia @ 2.79
8 56.1% Lebanese_Christian + 43.9% Spanish_Cataluna @ 2.83
9 65% Cyprian + 35% Portuguese @ 2.86
10 57.2% Italian_Jewish + 42.8% Central_Greek @ 2.86
11 89.2% Italian_Jewish + 10.8% West_German @ 2.87
12 55.2% Lebanese_Christian + 44.8% Spanish_Galicia @ 2.87
13 91.2% Italian_Jewish + 8.8% Orcadian @ 2.88
14 91.1% Italian_Jewish + 8.9% North_Dutch @ 2.93
15 90.6% Italian_Jewish + 9.4% North_German @ 2.95
16 90.6% Italian_Jewish + 9.4% Southwest_English @ 2.95
17 55.9% Lebanese_Christian + 44.1% Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 2.97
18 91.7% Italian_Jewish + 8.3% West_Norwegian @ 2.98
19 91.2% Italian_Jewish + 8.8% Irish @ 2.99
20 89.5% Italian_Jewish + 10.5% South_Dutch @ 2.99


Does it seem like southeastern Sicily and Apulia may have retained more of the original Italic DNA due to less contact with MENA groups to dilute it, as well as incoming Greek ancestry? Some results that I think demonstrate this from Eurogenes K15.

Ragusa is split though -- half of the results I have from there come up more Near Eastern shifted but the other half are more European.

Apulia:

# Population Percent
1 East_Med 25.32
2 West_Med 17.81
3 Atlantic 13.01
4 North_Sea 12.67
5 West_Asian 11.84
6 Baltic 8.29
7 Red_Sea 7.03
8 Eastern_Euro 3.6
9 Northeast_African 0.41
10 Oceanian 0.03
11 Amerindian 0.01
12 Siberian 0.01

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 East_Sicilian 4.4
2 Central_Greek 4.74
3 Ashkenazi 5.26
4 Greek_Thessaly 5.4
5 Italian_Abruzzo 5.66
6 West_Sicilian 6.64
7 South_Italian 7.18
8 Greek 7.24
9 Tuscan 8.16
10 Italian_Jewish 10.29
11 Sephardic_Jewish 11.65
12 Algerian_Jewish 12.03
13 Bulgarian 13.16
14 North_Italian 14.27
15 Romanian 14.89
16 Tunisian_Jewish 15.71
17 Libyan_Jewish 16.18
18 Serbian 17.79
19 Cyprian 18.3
20 Spanish_Extremadura 21.16

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 67.2% Greek_Thessaly + 32.8% Italian_Jewish @ 2.27
2 70.1% Greek_Thessaly + 29.9% Sephardic_Jewish @ 2.33
3 56.8% East_Sicilian + 43.2% Greek_Thessaly @ 2.46
4 71.4% Greek_Thessaly + 28.6% Algerian_Jewish @ 2.68
5 76.9% Greek_Thessaly + 23.1% Tunisian_Jewish @ 2.74
6 87.9% East_Sicilian + 12.1% Hungarian @ 2.78
7 63.2% Ashkenazi + 36.8% Tuscan @ 2.79
8 91.5% East_Sicilian + 8.5% North_Swedish @ 2.86
9 89.4% East_Sicilian + 10.6% East_German @ 2.87
10 90.6% East_Sicilian + 9.4% Ukrainian @ 2.89
11 91.6% East_Sicilian + 8.4% Swedish @ 2.9
12 84.2% East_Sicilian + 15.8% Serbian @ 2.91
13 90.4% East_Sicilian + 9.6% Ukrainian_Lviv @ 2.91
14 91.7% East_Sicilian + 8.3% Finnish @ 2.92
15 91.7% East_Sicilian + 8.3% Norwegian @ 2.92
16 92.2% East_Sicilian + 7.8% Estonian @ 2.93
17 91.5% East_Sicilian + 8.5% Southwest_Finnish @ 2.94
18 89.3% East_Sicilian + 10.7% West_German @ 2.94
19 92.1% East_Sicilian + 7.9% West_Norwegian @ 2.96
20 90.8% East_Sicilian + 9.2% South_Polish @ 3.01



Ragusa, SE Sicily:

# Population Percent
1 East_Med 25.71
2 West_Med 15.96
3 North_Sea 15.87
4 Atlantic 15.13
5 West_Asian 12.77
6 Red_Sea 6.24
7 Baltic 3.45
8 Eastern_Euro 1.94
9 South_Asian 1.09
10 Sub-Saharan 0.78
11 Siberian 0.49
12 Northeast_African 0.45
13 Southeast_Asian 0.08
14 Amerindian 0.04

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Italian_Abruzzo 5.2
2 East_Sicilian 6.61
3 West_Sicilian 6.79
4 Central_Greek 7.22
5 Ashkenazi 7.94
6 Tuscan 8.11
7 South_Italian 8.32
8 Greek_Thessaly 9.27
9 Italian_Jewish 10.5
10 Greek 11.13
11 Sephardic_Jewish 11.98
12 Algerian_Jewish 12.81
13 North_Italian 13.99
14 Bulgarian 16.1
15 Tunisian_Jewish 16.1
16 Libyan_Jewish 16.44
17 Romanian 17.06
18 Serbian 19.26
19 Cyprian 19.29
20 Spanish_Extremadura 20.04

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 57.5% Spanish_Galicia + 42.5% Kurdish_Jewish @ 2.86
2 58.2% Portuguese + 41.8% Kurdish_Jewish @ 3.12
3 54.9% Cyprian + 45.1% French @ 3.16
4 53% French + 47% Lebanese_Christian @ 3.2
5 77.6% Italian_Jewish + 22.4% Orcadian @ 3.34
6 72.4% Italian_Jewish + 27.6% West_German @ 3.37
7 56.6% Spanish_Galicia + 43.4% Lebanese_Druze @ 3.38
8 69.5% Sephardic_Jewish + 30.5% West_German @ 3.52
9 62.2% Cyprian + 37.8% Southwest_English @ 3.59
10 77.1% Italian_Jewish + 22.9% North_Dutch @ 3.6
11 78.6% Italian_Jewish + 21.4% West_Norwegian @ 3.62
12 76% Italian_Jewish + 24% Southwest_English @ 3.64
13 50.9% Spanish_Galicia + 49.1% Lebanese_Muslim @ 3.67
14 51.6% French + 48.4% Samaritan @ 3.68
15 57.7% Spanish_Galicia + 42.3% Iranian_Jewish @ 3.75
16 77.6% Italian_Jewish + 22.4% West_Scottish @ 3.75
17 76.4% Italian_Jewish + 23.6% Southeast_English @ 3.75
18 56% Spanish_Galicia + 44% Lebanese_Christian @ 3.76
19 77.4% Italian_Jewish + 22.6% Irish @ 3.78
20 78.1% Italian_Jewish + 21.9% Norwegian @ 3.78


Ragusa, SE Sicily:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 26.75
2 West_Med 16.59
3 West_Asian 13.69
4 Atlantic 13.42
5 North_Sea 12.68
6 Baltic 6.27
7 Red_Sea 5.42
8 Eastern_Euro 2.32
9 Sub-Saharan 1.04
10 Oceanian 0.71
11 Siberian 0.5
12 Northeast_African 0.42
13 Amerindian 0.18

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 East_Sicilian 3.45
2 Central_Greek 3.5
3 Italian_Abruzzo 4.2
4 South_Italian 5.32
5 Ashkenazi 5.52
6 West_Sicilian 5.98
7 Greek_Thessaly 7.29
8 Greek 8.31
9 Tuscan 8.99
10 Italian_Jewish 9
11 Sephardic_Jewish 10.38
12 Algerian_Jewish 10.96
13 Tunisian_Jewish 14.47
14 Bulgarian 14.72
15 Libyan_Jewish 15.27
16 North_Italian 15.39
17 Romanian 16.43
18 Cyprian 16.77
19 Serbian 19.42
20 Turkish 19.47

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 88.4% South_Italian + 11.6% North_Swedish @ 2.05
2 88.4% South_Italian + 11.6% Swedish @ 2.1
3 88.8% South_Italian + 11.2% West_Norwegian @ 2.14
4 88.4% South_Italian + 11.6% Norwegian @ 2.14
5 85.5% South_Italian + 14.5% West_German @ 2.24
6 60.7% Cyprian + 39.3% French @ 2.46
7 88.3% South_Italian + 11.7% North_Dutch @ 2.47
8 94.2% East_Sicilian + 5.8% West_Norwegian @ 2.5
9 92.3% East_Sicilian + 7.7% West_German @ 2.52
10 88.4% South_Italian + 11.6% Danish @ 2.53
11 94.1% East_Sicilian + 5.9% Norwegian @ 2.55
12 89% South_Italian + 11% Finnish @ 2.55
13 94.1% East_Sicilian + 5.9% Orcadian @ 2.56
14 94.2% East_Sicilian + 5.8% Swedish @ 2.57
15 88.9% South_Italian + 11.1% Orcadian @ 2.58
16 94% East_Sicilian + 6% North_Dutch @ 2.61
17 94.1% East_Sicilian + 5.9% Danish @ 2.63
18 94.4% East_Sicilian + 5.6% North_Swedish @ 2.64
19 88.9% South_Italian + 11.1% Southwest_Finnish @ 2.64
20 93.9% East_Sicilian + 6.1% Southeast_English @ 2.65


Ragusa, SE Sicily:

# Population Percent
1 East_Med 27.43
2 West_Med 20.66
3 West_Asian 12.84
4 Atlantic 12.07
5 North_Sea 10.98
6 Baltic 4.9
7 Red_Sea 4.54
8 Eastern_Euro 2.67
9 Northeast_African 1.66
10 Sub-Saharan 1.55
11 Siberian 0.7

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 East_Sicilian 4.72
2 South_Italian 5.25
3 Central_Greek 5.42
4 West_Sicilian 6.59
5 Italian_Abruzzo 7.16
6 Ashkenazi 7.25
7 Italian_Jewish 8.21
8 Greek_Thessaly 9.01
9 Algerian_Jewish 9.35
10 Greek 9.56
11 Tuscan 10.03
12 Sephardic_Jewish 10.23
13 Tunisian_Jewish 13.91
14 Libyan_Jewish 14.15
15 North_Italian 16.07
16 Cyprian 16.2
17 Bulgarian 16.9
18 Romanian 18.86
19 Lebanese_Muslim 20.05
20 Syrian 20.59

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 91% East_Sicilian + 9% Sardinian @ 3.69
2 59.7% Cyprian + 40.3% Spanish_Galicia @ 3.95
3 85.8% Central_Greek + 14.2% Algerian @ 4.04
4 87.2% Central_Greek + 12.8% Mozabite_Berber @ 4.07
5 51.1% Greek_Thessaly + 48.9% Algerian_Jewish @ 4.1
6 87.3% Central_Greek + 12.7% Moroccan @ 4.11
7 87.9% South_Italian + 12.1% Spanish_Galicia @ 4.16
8 89.5% Central_Greek + 10.5% Sardinian @ 4.16
9 59.1% Cyprian + 40.9% Portuguese @ 4.24
10 88.1% South_Italian + 11.9% Portuguese @ 4.28
11 53.1% Italian_Jewish + 46.9% Greek_Thessaly @ 4.28
12 86.7% Central_Greek + 13.3% Tunisian @ 4.31
13 72.6% South_Italian + 27.4% Greek_Thessaly @ 4.32
14 50.2% North_Italian + 49.8% Cyprian @ 4.39
15 84.6% South_Italian + 15.4% North_Italian @ 4.42
16 76.5% South_Italian + 23.5% Tuscan @ 4.47
17 91.5% South_Italian + 8.5% Sardinian @ 4.47
18 91.7% South_Italian + 8.3% West_German @ 4.47
19 89.1% South_Italian + 10.9% Spanish_Extremadura @ 4.48
20 91% South_Italian + 9% French @ 4.51


Syracuse, SE Sicily:

# Population Percent
1 East_Med 26.06
2 West_Med 21.13
3 Atlantic 15.06
4 West_Asian 12.74
5 North_Sea 8.57
6 Baltic 5.67
7 Red_Sea 4.37
8 Eastern_Euro 3.93
9 South_Asian 1.14
10 Oceanian 0.72
11 Northeast_African 0.45
12 Southeast_Asian 0.16

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 West_Sicilian 5.05
2 Central_Greek 5.23
3 East_Sicilian 5.25
4 South_Italian 5.61
5 Italian_Abruzzo 6.13
6 Greek 7.44
7 Ashkenazi 8.07
8 Tuscan 8.45
9 Greek_Thessaly 8.96
10 Italian_Jewish 9.46
11 Algerian_Jewish 10.4
12 Sephardic_Jewish 10.62
13 North_Italian 14.46
14 Tunisian_Jewish 14.98
15 Bulgarian 15.54
16 Libyan_Jewish 16.61
17 Cyprian 17.24
18 Romanian 17.82
19 Serbian 20.78
20 Turkish 21.2

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 85.6% Central_Greek + 14.4% Sardinian @ 2.2
2 86.7% East_Sicilian + 13.3% Sardinian @ 2.95
3 54.6% North_Italian + 45.4% Cyprian @ 3.18
4 61.1% Cyprian + 38.9% Southwest_French @ 3.54
5 60.2% Cyprian + 39.8% Spanish_Cantabria @ 3.6
6 76.6% South_Italian + 23.4% North_Italian @ 3.63
7 86.1% South_Italian + 13.9% Southwest_French @ 3.65
8 68.9% Tuscan + 31.1% Cyprian @ 3.66
9 85.8% South_Italian + 14.2% Spanish_Cantabria @ 3.69
10 83.4% South_Italian + 16.6% Spanish_Andalucia @ 3.76
11 64.5% South_Italian + 35.5% Tuscan @ 3.76
12 87.2% South_Italian + 12.8% Sardinian @ 3.79
13 52% West_Sicilian + 48% Central_Greek @ 3.84
14 85.5% Italian_Abruzzo + 14.5% Sardinian @ 3.86
15 84.8% South_Italian + 15.2% Spanish_Valencia @ 3.87
16 84.2% South_Italian + 15.8% Portuguese @ 3.88
17 85.3% South_Italian + 14.7% Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha @ 3.89
18 84.8% South_Italian + 15.2% Spanish_Galicia @ 3.91
19 86.3% South_Italian + 13.7% Spanish_Aragon @ 3.92
20 84.1% South_Italian + 15.9% Spanish_Extremadura @ 3.92



Syracuse, SE Sicily:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 28.21
2 West_Med 18.61
3 Atlantic 16.36
4 North_Sea 12.21
5 West_Asian 11.6
6 Red_Sea 4.46
7 Baltic 3.95
8 Eastern_Euro 1.73
9 Northeast_African 1.38
10 Southeast_Asian 1.15
11 Siberian 0.23
12 Oceanian 0.08
13 Amerindian 0.04

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 West_Sicilian 3.9
2 Italian_Abruzzo 5.34
3 East_Sicilian 5.58
4 South_Italian 5.76
5 Central_Greek 6.34
6 Italian_Jewish 7.93
7 Tuscan 8.04
8 Ashkenazi 8.4
9 Algerian_Jewish 9.83
10 Sephardic_Jewish 9.85
11 Greek 9.96
12 Greek_Thessaly 10.14
13 Tunisian_Jewish 13.9
14 North_Italian 14.24
15 Libyan_Jewish 15.12
16 Bulgarian 17
17 Cyprian 17.54
18 Romanian 18.74
19 Spanish_Extremadura 20.78
20 Spanish_Murcia 20.96

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 50.4% Italian_Jewish + 49.6% Tuscan @ 2.56
2 65.2% Italian_Jewish + 34.8% North_Italian @ 2.64
3 75.3% Italian_Jewish + 24.7% Spanish_Cataluna @ 2.93
4 64.9% North_Italian + 35.1% Lebanese_Druze @ 2.94
5 56.5% Cyprian + 43.5% Spanish_Cataluna @ 2.95
6 54.6% Cyprian + 45.4% Spanish_Murcia @ 2.96
7 54.7% Cyprian + 45.3% Portuguese @ 2.97
8 64.2% North_Italian + 35.8% Lebanese_Christian @ 2.98
9 77.5% Tuscan + 22.5% Lebanese_Druze @ 3
10 81.3% South_Italian + 18.7% Spanish_Murcia @ 3.21
11 77.9% Italian_Jewish + 22.1% French @ 3.22
12 77.3% Tuscan + 22.7% Lebanese_Christian @ 3.25
13 81.5% South_Italian + 18.5% Portuguese @ 3.28
14 69.9% West_Sicilian + 30.1% South_Italian @ 3.34
15 55.4% North_Italian + 44.6% Cyprian @ 3.35
16 56.4% Cyprian + 43.6% Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 3.35
17 55.9% Tuscan + 44.1% Algerian_Jewish @ 3.37
18 81.5% South_Italian + 18.5% Spanish_Extremadura @ 3.38
19 74.4% Italian_Jewish + 25.6% Portuguese @ 3.39
20 75.7% Italian_Jewish + 24.3% Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 3.4


Syracuse, SE Sicily:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 28.21
2 West_Med 19.22
3 West_Asian 16.32
4 Atlantic 10.4
5 North_Sea 9.36
6 Baltic 7.83
7 Red_Sea 4.03
8 Eastern_Euro 3.17
9 Northeast_African 1.25
10 Southeast_Asian 0.15
11 Sub-Saharan 0.07

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Central_Greek 3.72
2 East_Sicilian 4.7
3 South_Italian 4.79
4 Ashkenazi 6.81
5 Italian_Abruzzo 7.78
6 Greek 8.54
7 Greek_Thessaly 8.62
8 West_Sicilian 9.11
9 Italian_Jewish 9.34
10 Sephardic_Jewish 10.59
11 Algerian_Jewish 10.72
12 Tuscan 12.56
13 Tunisian_Jewish 14.04
14 Cyprian 14.16
15 Libyan_Jewish 14.79
16 Bulgarian 16.1
17 Turkish 17.88
18 Lebanese_Muslim 17.91
19 Romanian 18.42
20 North_Italian 18.72

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 63.4% Greek_Thessaly + 36.6% Cyprian @ 3.39
2 90.1% Central_Greek + 9.9% Cyprian @ 3.4
3 91.6% Central_Greek + 8.4% Libyan_Jewish @ 3.48
4 94.4% Central_Greek + 5.6% Samaritan @ 3.51
5 94.9% Central_Greek + 5.1% Lebanese_Christian @ 3.53
6 95.8% Central_Greek + 4.2% Armenian @ 3.58
7 95.7% Central_Greek + 4.3% Assyrian @ 3.59
8 96.1% Central_Greek + 3.9% Kurdish_Jewish @ 3.59
9 76.6% Central_Greek + 23.4% South_Italian @ 3.6
10 96.2% Central_Greek + 3.8% Lebanese_Druze @ 3.6
11 99% Central_Greek + 1% Ethiopian_Ari_cultivator @ 3.61
12 95.2% Central_Greek + 4.8% Lebanese_Muslim @ 3.62
13 96.1% Central_Greek + 3.9% Jordanian @ 3.62
14 96.5% Central_Greek + 3.5% Iranian_Jewish @ 3.62
15 99.1% Central_Greek + 0.9% Ethiopian_Gumuz @ 3.63
16 96.6% Central_Greek + 3.4% Georgian_Jewish @ 3.63
17 92.5% Central_Greek + 7.5% Algerian_Jewish @ 3.63
18 95.8% Central_Greek + 4.2% Syrian @ 3.63
19 99.1% Central_Greek + 0.9% Hadza @ 3.64
20 97.3% Central_Greek + 2.7% Egyptian @ 3.64



Syracuse, SE Sicily:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 27.48
2 West_Med 17.24
3 Atlantic 15.12
4 West_Asian 15.03
5 North_Sea 11.29
6 Red_Sea 5.23
7 Baltic 5.07
8 Eastern_Euro 1.24
9 Sub-Saharan 0.86
10 Oceanian 0.57
11 Northeast_African 0.49
12 Southeast_Asian 0.38

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 East_Sicilian 3.35
2 Italian_Abruzzo 3.59
3 Central_Greek 3.6
4 South_Italian 3.71
5 West_Sicilian 5.29
6 Ashkenazi 6.93
7 Italian_Jewish 8.13
8 Greek 9.16
9 Sephardic_Jewish 9.19
10 Tuscan 9.23
11 Greek_Thessaly 9.38
12 Algerian_Jewish 10.1
13 Tunisian_Jewish 13.52
14 Libyan_Jewish 15.19
15 North_Italian 15.79
16 Cyprian 15.88
17 Bulgarian 16.24
18 Romanian 18.12
19 Lebanese_Muslim 18.88
20 Turkish 18.91

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 91.9% South_Italian + 8.1% Orcadian @ 1.52
2 91.9% South_Italian + 8.1% West_Scottish @ 1.65
3 91.5% South_Italian + 8.5% Southeast_English @ 1.67
4 91.9% South_Italian + 8.1% Irish @ 1.69
5 91.8% South_Italian + 8.2% North_Dutch @ 1.7
6 91.4% South_Italian + 8.6% Southwest_English @ 1.7
7 92.4% South_Italian + 7.6% West_Norwegian @ 1.71
8 91.8% South_Italian + 8.2% Danish @ 1.72
9 51.1% Italian_Abruzzo + 48.9% South_Italian @ 1.73
10 90.1% South_Italian + 9.9% West_German @ 1.74
11 92.3% South_Italian + 7.7% Norwegian @ 1.81
12 91.5% South_Italian + 8.5% North_German @ 1.82
13 90.3% South_Italian + 9.7% South_Dutch @ 1.83
14 89.2% South_Italian + 10.8% French @ 1.85
15 92.4% South_Italian + 7.6% Swedish @ 1.88
16 92.7% South_Italian + 7.3% North_Swedish @ 2.06
17 73.5% Italian_Abruzzo + 26.5% Italian_Jewish @ 2.21
18 84.4% Italian_Abruzzo + 15.6% Libyan_Jewish @ 2.27
19 78.1% Italian_Abruzzo + 21.9% Algerian_Jewish @ 2.29
20 89.1% South_Italian + 10.9% Spanish_Galicia @ 2.35



SE Sicily:

# Population Percent
1 East_Med 27.08
2 West_Med 17.28
3 Atlantic 16.19
4 West_Asian 14.95
5 North_Sea 13.24
6 Baltic 4.27
7 Red_Sea 2.96
8 Sub-Saharan 1.39
9 Eastern_Euro 1.04
10 Northeast_African 0.59
11 Siberian 0.53
12 Southeast_Asian 0.33
13 Oceanian 0.17

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Italian_Abruzzo 4.37
2 Central_Greek 5.8
3 South_Italian 5.95
4 East_Sicilian 6
5 West_Sicilian 6.06
6 Tuscan 8.67
7 Ashkenazi 9.06
8 Greek_Thessaly 9.86
9 Greek 9.91
10 Italian_Jewish 10.09
11 Sephardic_Jewish 11.43
12 Algerian_Jewish 11.94
13 North_Italian 14.73
14 Tunisian_Jewish 15.53
15 Bulgarian 16.31
16 Libyan_Jewish 16.88
17 Cyprian 17.86
18 Romanian 17.93
19 Turkish 20.06
20 Serbian 20.75

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 87.8% South_Italian + 12.2% Orcadian @ 3.07
2 87.2% South_Italian + 12.8% Southeast_English @ 3.27
3 87% South_Italian + 13% Southwest_English @ 3.3
4 88% South_Italian + 12% West_Scottish @ 3.3
5 87.9% South_Italian + 12.1% Irish @ 3.36
6 85.3% South_Italian + 14.7% West_German @ 3.4
7 88.8% South_Italian + 11.2% West_Norwegian @ 3.4
8 87.9% South_Italian + 12.1% North_Dutch @ 3.43
9 87.9% South_Italian + 12.1% Danish @ 3.44
10 84% South_Italian + 16% French @ 3.55
11 85.7% South_Italian + 14.3% South_Dutch @ 3.56
12 88.7% South_Italian + 11.3% Norwegian @ 3.58
13 87.5% South_Italian + 12.5% North_German @ 3.64
14 88.9% South_Italian + 11.1% Swedish @ 3.72
15 69.9% Italian_Abruzzo + 30.1% South_Italian @ 3.91
16 83.6% South_Italian + 16.4% Spanish_Cataluna @ 3.97
17 89.6% South_Italian + 10.4% North_Swedish @ 3.99
18 83.1% South_Italian + 16.9% Portuguese @ 4.08
19 76.6% Tuscan + 23.4% Assyrian @ 4.11
20 83.1% South_Italian + 16.9% Spanish_Murcia @ 4.11



SE Sicily:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 24.68
2 West_Med 17.78
3 Atlantic 17.25
4 West_Asian 15.27
5 North_Sea 12.82
6 Red_Sea 5.12
7 Baltic 3.47
8 Sub-Saharan 1.73
9 Eastern_Euro 1.66
10 Northeast_African 0.23

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Italian_Abruzzo 3.56
2 West_Sicilian 5.74
3 East_Sicilian 6.09
4 Central_Greek 6.3
5 South_Italian 6.96
6 Tuscan 7.33
7 Ashkenazi 9.1
8 Greek 10.08
9 Greek_Thessaly 10.09
10 Italian_Jewish 10.91
11 Sephardic_Jewish 11.74
12 Algerian_Jewish 12.63
13 North_Italian 13.46
14 Bulgarian 15.99
15 Tunisian_Jewish 16.22
16 Romanian 17.45
17 Libyan_Jewish 17.83
18 Cyprian 18.92
19 Spanish_Extremadura 19.81
20 Serbian 20.11

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 98.5% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.5% Yoruban @ 3.06
2 98.4% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.6% Mandenka @ 3.06
3 98.4% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.6% Bantu_S.W. @ 3.07
4 98.4% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.6% Bantu_S.E. @ 3.07
5 98.3% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.7% Biaka_Pygmy @ 3.09
6 98.3% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.7% Luhya @ 3.11
7 98.3% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.7% Bantu_N.E. @ 3.12
8 80.2% Tuscan + 19.8% Armenian @ 3.12
9 98.3% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.7% Mbuti_Pygmy @ 3.14
10 80.4% Tuscan + 19.6% Georgian_Jewish @ 3.21
11 98.3% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.7% San @ 3.21
12 94.9% Italian_Abruzzo + 5.1% Mozabite_Berber @ 3.26
13 79.9% Tuscan + 20.1% Assyrian @ 3.28
14 95.8% Italian_Abruzzo + 4.2% Sardinian @ 3.29
15 98.5% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.5% Sudanese @ 3.3
16 95% Italian_Abruzzo + 5% Algerian @ 3.32
17 98.6% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.4% Ethiopian_Anuak @ 3.34
18 95.8% Italian_Abruzzo + 4.2% Moroccan @ 3.36
19 95.4% Italian_Abruzzo + 4.6% Tunisian @ 3.36
20 98.6% Italian_Abruzzo + 1.4% Sandawe @ 3.39

[Coolguy1]

The Apulian result could pass as a southern shifted mainland Greek

[Sikeliot]

What is also striking to me is in the southeast of the island there is almost no North African affinity at all, even though it is noticeably present in western Sicily (all provinces) and the center of the island.

[Sikeliot]

What do others think who may know more than I do?

[Token]

Probably not, Norman input is more likely.

[Sikeliot]

Probably not, Norman input is more likely.

Normans didn't settle in that part of the island.

The other question is why they have significantly less Middle Eastern type ancestry than the rest.

[MysteriousWays]

Not sure about the "why," although these results are fairly interesting. Differences are still relatively small, in the grand scheme of things.

[Coolguy1]

Is the Apulia sample the most northeast shifted southern Italian you have?

[Sikeliot]

Is the Apulia sample the most northeast shifted southern Italian you have?

Yes.

[Bobby Martnen]

Normans didn't settle in that part of the island.

The other question is why they have significantly less Middle Eastern type ancestry than the rest.

Perhaps more Moors were expelled (as opposed to converted) during the Norman Liberation of Sicily.

[Sikeliot]

Perhaps more Moors were expelled (as opposed to converted) during the Norman Liberation of Sicily.

I figured it was there were just fewer Muslims in that part of the island to begin with, as well as no Phoenicians.

[Sikeliot]

Perhaps more Moors were expelled (as opposed to converted) during the Norman Liberation of Sicily.


Probably not, Norman input is more likely.


The Apulian result could pass as a southern shifted mainland Greek


For comparison here are some people from the west and center of the island. There should be more Norman here than in the southeast but it is almost entirely cancelled out by higher Middle Eastern. Jewish matches are further on the list, East Med components and Red Sea rise, and the people are closer to Levantines than to Iberians.

Palermo:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 32.68
2 West_Med 18.37
3 North_Sea 14.83
4 West_Asian 11.79
5 Red_Sea 7.37
6 Atlantic 7.21
7 Eastern_Euro 2.56
8 Baltic 2.51
9 Sub-Saharan 1.54
10 Amerindian 0.9
11 Oceanian 0.25

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Italian_Jewish 8.26
2 Ashkenazi 9.53
3 East_Sicilian 9.64
4 South_Italian 9.71
5 Algerian_Jewish 10.11
6 Central_Greek 10.19
7 Libyan_Jewish 10.75
8 Sephardic_Jewish 10.91
9 West_Sicilian 12.13
10 Italian_Abruzzo 12.17
11 Greek_Thessaly 13.22
12 Tunisian_Jewish 13.28
13 Cyprian 14.55
14 Greek 15.52
15 Tuscan 15.76
16 Lebanese_Muslim 17.7
17 Syrian 17.85
18 Samaritan 18.92
19 Jordanian 19.86
20 Lebanese_Christian 20.37

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 57.3% Libyan_Jewish + 42.7% Greek_Thessaly @ 6.41
2 58.5% Lebanese_Christian + 41.5% Spanish_Galicia @ 6.71
3 79.8% Libyan_Jewish + 20.2% West_German @ 6.91
4 52.4% Central_Greek + 47.6% Libyan_Jewish @ 6.92
5 64.9% Samaritan + 35.1% West_German @ 7.16
6 63.7% Libyan_Jewish + 36.3% Tuscan @ 7.19
7 55.2% Libyan_Jewish + 44.8% Italian_Abruzzo @ 7.19
8 84.2% Libyan_Jewish + 15.8% West_Norwegian @ 7.21
9 79.2% Libyan_Jewish + 20.8% French @ 7.22
10 83.8% Libyan_Jewish + 16.2% Norwegian @ 7.25
11 57.3% Lebanese_Druze + 42.7% Spanish_Galicia @ 7.27
12 73.9% Italian_Jewish + 26.1% Greek_Thessaly @ 7.28
13 58.4% Lebanese_Christian + 41.6% Portuguese @ 7.32
14 83% Libyan_Jewish + 17% Southwest_English @ 7.33
15 84% Libyan_Jewish + 16% Swedish @ 7.34
16 60.7% Samaritan + 39.3% Spanish_Galicia @ 7.35
17 81.2% Libyan_Jewish + 18.8% South_Dutch @ 7.35
18 91.9% Italian_Jewish + 8.1% West_Norwegian @ 7.38
19 72.2% Libyan_Jewish + 27.8% North_Italian @ 7.39
20 84.1% Libyan_Jewish + 15.9% Orcadian @ 7.39


Palermo:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 30.35
2 Atlantic 18.89
3 West_Med 18.09
4 West_Asian 14.27
5 Baltic 6.21
6 Red_Sea 5.75
7 North_Sea 3.15
8 Eastern_Euro 2.16
9 Northeast_African 0.52
10 Sub-Saharan 0.36
11 Oceanian 0.15
12 Amerindian 0.08

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 South_Italian 6.43
2 West_Sicilian 7.42
3 Sephardic_Jewish 7.77
4 East_Sicilian 8.11
5 Central_Greek 8.48
6 Algerian_Jewish 8.84
7 Italian_Abruzzo 8.99
8 Italian_Jewish 9.04
9 Greek 10.76
10 Ashkenazi 10.8
11 Tunisian_Jewish 11.66
12 Tuscan 13.17
13 Greek_Thessaly 14.41
14 Cyprian 14.46
15 Libyan_Jewish 16.28
16 Lebanese_Muslim 18.43
17 Bulgarian 19.08
18 North_Italian 19.11
19 Syrian 19.69
20 Turkish 19.92

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 72.6% Cyprian + 27.4% French_Basque @ 3.71
2 63.7% Cyprian + 36.3% Spanish_Andalucia @ 4.72
3 68.6% Cyprian + 31.4% Southwest_French @ 4.82
4 65.3% Cyprian + 34.7% Spanish_Valencia @ 4.84
5 67.4% Cyprian + 32.6% Spanish_Aragon @ 4.85
6 66.2% Cyprian + 33.8% Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha @ 5.11
7 62.4% Sephardic_Jewish + 37.6% Greek @ 5.36
8 72.9% West_Sicilian + 27.1% Cyprian @ 5.51
9 62.6% Lebanese_Christian + 37.4% French_Basque @ 5.54
10 68.6% Cyprian + 31.4% Spanish_Cantabria @ 5.64
11 87.5% Sephardic_Jewish + 12.5% French_Basque @ 5.74
12 52.7% West_Sicilian + 47.3% Sephardic_Jewish @ 5.8
13 85.4% Sephardic_Jewish + 14.6% Southwest_French @ 5.91
14 82.5% Sephardic_Jewish + 17.5% Spanish_Andalucia @ 5.93
15 66.7% Cyprian + 33.3% Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 5.99
16 65.3% South_Italian + 34.7% West_Sicilian @ 5.99
17 52.8% Greek + 47.2% Tunisian_Jewish @ 5.99
18 68.1% South_Italian + 31.9% Sephardic_Jewish @ 6
19 65.4% Cyprian + 34.6% Spanish_Murcia @ 6.01
20 83.8% Sephardic_Jewish + 16.2% Spanish_Valencia @ 6.01



Agrigento:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 31.13
2 West_Med 16.55
3 West_Asian 14.07
4 Atlantic 11.8
5 North_Sea 9.68
6 Red_Sea 6.69
7 Eastern_Euro 3.75
8 Baltic 3.06
9 Northeast_African 1.76
10 Sub-Saharan 1.49
11 Oceanian 0.03

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Italian_Jewish 4.92
2 South_Italian 5.15
3 East_Sicilian 5.19
4 Ashkenazi 6.01
5 Sephardic_Jewish 6.17
6 Central_Greek 6.22
7 Algerian_Jewish 6.62
8 West_Sicilian 7.74
9 Italian_Abruzzo 8.02
10 Tunisian_Jewish 9.7
11 Libyan_Jewish 10.64
12 Greek 11.79
13 Greek_Thessaly 12
14 Cyprian 12.16
15 Tuscan 13.44
16 Lebanese_Muslim 15.21
17 Syrian 15.88
18 Turkish 17.94
19 Samaritan 18.1
20 Jordanian 18.24

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 57.7% Italian_Abruzzo + 42.3% Libyan_Jewish @ 2.77
2 69.6% Cyprian + 30.4% Spanish_Galicia @ 2.81
3 90.3% Italian_Jewish + 9.7% Tabassaran @ 2.93
4 65.1% Central_Greek + 34.9% Libyan_Jewish @ 2.94
5 69.1% Cyprian + 30.9% Portuguese @ 2.95
6 72% Cyprian + 28% French @ 2.97
7 90.4% Italian_Jewish + 9.6% Lezgin @ 3.11
8 57.5% Italian_Jewish + 42.5% Ashkenazi @ 3.12
9 58.7% Italian_Jewish + 41.3% Central_Greek @ 3.16
10 57.7% Lebanese_Christian + 42.3% Portuguese @ 3.25
11 50.4% Lebanese_Christian + 49.6% North_Italian @ 3.26
12 86.5% Algerian_Jewish + 13.5% Tabassaran @ 3.3
13 52.4% Italian_Jewish + 47.6% East_Sicilian @ 3.32
14 59.7% Tuscan + 40.3% Lebanese_Christian @ 3.32
15 91.3% Italian_Jewish + 8.7% Chechen @ 3.33
16 52.2% Central_Greek + 47.8% Algerian_Jewish @ 3.38
17 76.7% Cyprian + 23.3% Southwest_English @ 3.38
18 69% Cyprian + 31% Spanish_Extremadura @ 3.41
19 83.8% East_Sicilian + 16.2% Lebanese_Druze @ 3.41
20 72.1% East_Sicilian + 27.9% Libyan_Jewish @ 3.44


Palermo:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 30.33
2 West_Med 19.54
3 West_Asian 11.77
4 Atlantic 10.83
5 North_Sea 9.97
6 Baltic 7.53
7 Red_Sea 5.31
8 Eastern_Euro 1.56
9 Amerindian 1.21
10 Northeast_African 1.05
11 Sub-Saharan 0.91

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 South_Italian 4.94
2 East_Sicilian 5.27
3 Central_Greek 5.88
4 Ashkenazi 7.06
5 Italian_Jewish 7.18
6 West_Sicilian 8.06
7 Algerian_Jewish 8.14
8 Italian_Abruzzo 8.83
9 Sephardic_Jewish 9.2
10 Greek_Thessaly 9.47
11 Greek 10
12 Tuscan 12.24
13 Tunisian_Jewish 12.36
14 Libyan_Jewish 12.55
15 Cyprian 14.34
16 Bulgarian 17.55
17 North_Italian 18.37
18 Lebanese_Muslim 18.45
19 Syrian 19
20 Romanian 19.76

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 54.3% Algerian_Jewish + 45.7% Greek_Thessaly @ 3.16
2 58.5% Italian_Jewish + 41.5% Greek_Thessaly @ 3.63
3 57.8% Greek_Thessaly + 42.2% Tunisian_Jewish @ 4.18
4 77.5% South_Italian + 22.5% Greek_Thessaly @ 4.28
5 63.3% Central_Greek + 36.7% Algerian_Jewish @ 4.3
6 56.7% Greek + 43.3% Libyan_Jewish @ 4.32
7 58.3% Greek_Thessaly + 41.7% Libyan_Jewish @ 4.34
8 74.9% Central_Greek + 25.1% Libyan_Jewish @ 4.37
9 91.3% South_Italian + 8.7% Algerian @ 4.46
10 73.3% South_Italian + 26.7% Ashkenazi @ 4.52
11 61.6% Italian_Jewish + 38.4% Greek @ 4.54
12 86.1% South_Italian + 13.9% Libyan_Jewish @ 4.56
13 93% South_Italian + 7% Moroccan @ 4.56
14 50.9% Sephardic_Jewish + 49.1% Greek_Thessaly @ 4.57
15 71.9% East_Sicilian + 28.1% Algerian_Jewish @ 4.57
16 60.2% Central_Greek + 39.8% Italian_Jewish @ 4.62
17 95.5% South_Italian + 4.5% Ukrainian @ 4.63
18 95.5% South_Italian + 4.5% Ukrainian_Lviv @ 4.64
19 93.8% South_Italian + 6.2% Mozabite_Berber @ 4.65
20 92.9% South_Italian + 7.1% Tunisian @ 4.65



Caltanissetta:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 27.07
2 West_Med 18.08
3 West_Asian 14.92
4 Atlantic 13.54
5 North_Sea 11.05
6 Red_Sea 7.64
7 Baltic 4.3
8 Northeast_African 2.82
9 Siberian 0.24
10 Oceanian 0.22
11 Southeast_Asian 0.11

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 East_Sicilian 3.44
2 South_Italian 4.9
3 Central_Greek 5.57
4 Italian_Abruzzo 6.21
5 Ashkenazi 6.76
6 West_Sicilian 6.89
7 Italian_Jewish 7.17
8 Sephardic_Jewish 8.49
9 Algerian_Jewish 9.45
10 Tuscan 10.58
11 Greek_Thessaly 10.63
12 Greek 11.25
13 Tunisian_Jewish 12.15
14 Libyan_Jewish 13.11
15 Cyprian 15.51
16 North_Italian 17
17 Bulgarian 17.92
18 Lebanese_Muslim 18.16
19 Syrian 18.54
20 Turkish 19.2

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 91.1% East_Sicilian + 8.9% Libyan_Jewish @ 3.2
2 84% East_Sicilian + 16% Italian_Jewish @ 3.21
3 98.1% East_Sicilian + 1.9% Ethiopian_Tigray @ 3.24
4 98.2% East_Sicilian + 1.8% Ethiopian_Amhara @ 3.25
5 98.5% East_Sicilian + 1.5% Somali @ 3.26
6 98.5% East_Sicilian + 1.5% Ethiopian_Wolayta @ 3.27
7 98.5% East_Sicilian + 1.5% Ethiopian_Oromo @ 3.28
8 96.2% East_Sicilian + 3.8% Moroccan @ 3.3
9 98.9% East_Sicilian + 1.1% Ethiopian_Ari_cultivator @ 3.3
10 93.1% East_Sicilian + 6.9% Tunisian_Jewish @ 3.33
11 96.4% East_Sicilian + 3.6% Algerian @ 3.34
12 97.1% East_Sicilian + 2.9% Mozabite_Berber @ 3.36
13 97.2% East_Sicilian + 2.8% Egyptian @ 3.36
14 92.1% East_Sicilian + 7.9% Sephardic_Jewish @ 3.37
15 99.3% East_Sicilian + 0.7% Ethiopian_Gumuz @ 3.38
16 97.2% East_Sicilian + 2.8% Tunisian @ 3.38
17 99.3% East_Sicilian + 0.7% Maasai @ 3.39
18 99.4% East_Sicilian + 0.6% Hadza @ 3.39
19 94.2% East_Sicilian + 5.8% Algerian_Jewish @ 3.39
20 98.6% East_Sicilian + 1.4% Saudi @ 3.4



Caltanissetta and Enna:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 30.08
2 West_Med 19.65
3 Atlantic 17.27
4 West_Asian 10.55
5 Red_Sea 6.43
6 North_Sea 5.33
7 Baltic 4.5
8 Eastern_Euro 3.17
9 Sub-Saharan 1.73
10 Oceanian 0.86
11 Northeast_African 0.42

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 West_Sicilian 5.46
2 South_Italian 6.59
3 Algerian_Jewish 6.7
4 Italian_Jewish 7.35
5 Sephardic_Jewish 7.38
6 East_Sicilian 7.53
7 Central_Greek 8.48
8 Italian_Abruzzo 8.9
9 Ashkenazi 9.74
10 Greek 10.85
11 Tunisian_Jewish 11.41
12 Tuscan 11.66
13 Greek_Thessaly 13.41
14 Libyan_Jewish 14.64
15 Cyprian 15.36
16 North_Italian 17.53
17 Bulgarian 19.09
18 Lebanese_Muslim 19.63
19 Tunisian 20.2
20 Syrian 20.31

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 83.2% Algerian_Jewish + 16.8% Southwest_French @ 3.36
2 86.2% Algerian_Jewish + 13.8% French_Basque @ 3.36
3 57.5% West_Sicilian + 42.5% Algerian_Jewish @ 3.42
4 80% Algerian_Jewish + 20% Spanish_Andalucia @ 3.5
5 81.1% Algerian_Jewish + 18.9% Spanish_Valencia @ 3.5
6 82.8% Algerian_Jewish + 17.2% Spanish_Aragon @ 3.62
7 82% Algerian_Jewish + 18% Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha @ 3.7
8 75.5% Algerian_Jewish + 24.5% North_Italian @ 3.76
9 83.4% Algerian_Jewish + 16.6% Spanish_Cantabria @ 3.77
10 66.7% Algerian_Jewish + 33.3% Tuscan @ 3.82
11 60.6% Cyprian + 39.4% Spanish_Andalucia @ 3.96
12 82.6% Algerian_Jewish + 17.4% Spanish_Cataluna @ 3.97
13 62.9% West_Sicilian + 37.1% Sephardic_Jewish @ 4.08
14 62.3% Cyprian + 37.7% Spanish_Valencia @ 4.08
15 64.6% Cyprian + 35.4% Spanish_Aragon @ 4.08
16 82.6% Algerian_Jewish + 17.4% Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 4.09
17 81.7% Algerian_Jewish + 18.3% Spanish_Murcia @ 4.11
18 65.5% Algerian_Jewish + 34.5% Greek @ 4.13
19 80.7% West_Sicilian + 19.3% Cyprian @ 4.15
20 81.6% Algerian_Jewish + 18.4% Spanish_Extremadura @ 4.15


Enna:
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 34.12
2 West_Med 18.03
3 Atlantic 15.33
4 West_Asian 10.72
5 North_Sea 8.83
6 Red_Sea 5.38
7 Baltic 5.29
8 Eastern_Euro 1.61
9 Sub-Saharan 0.68
10 Amerindian 0.01

Single Population Sharing:

# Population (source) Distance
1 Italian_Jewish 5.42
2 South_Italian 5.63
3 Algerian_Jewish 6.05
4 Sephardic_Jewish 6.75
5 West_Sicilian 7.13
6 East_Sicilian 7.55
7 Central_Greek 8.14
8 Italian_Abruzzo 9.28
9 Ashkenazi 9.56
10 Tunisian_Jewish 10.27
11 Greek 11.96
12 Libyan_Jewish 12.48
13 Tuscan 13.07
14 Greek_Thessaly 13.2
15 Cyprian 13.49
16 Lebanese_Muslim 17.85
17 Syrian 18.93
18 North_Italian 19.2
19 Samaritan 19.28
20 Bulgarian 20.04

Mixed Mode Population Sharing:

# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 78.3% West_Sicilian + 21.7% Lebanese_Druze @ 4.08
2 65.6% Algerian_Jewish + 34.4% Italian_Abruzzo @ 4.22
3 57.1% Algerian_Jewish + 42.9% West_Sicilian @ 4.25
4 53.9% South_Italian + 46.1% Algerian_Jewish @ 4.26
5 78.2% West_Sicilian + 21.8% Lebanese_Christian @ 4.28
6 77.1% Italian_Jewish + 22.9% Greek @ 4.3
7 63.3% Italian_Jewish + 36.7% West_Sicilian @ 4.31
8 74.6% Algerian_Jewish + 25.4% Tuscan @ 4.35
9 72.7% Algerian_Jewish + 27.3% Greek @ 4.38
10 54.7% Lebanese_Druze + 45.3% Spanish_Andalucia @ 4.39
11 77% West_Sicilian + 23% Samaritan @ 4.39
12 52.9% North_Italian + 47.1% Lebanese_Druze @ 4.41
13 69.5% West_Sicilian + 30.5% Cyprian @ 4.42
14 62.4% Algerian_Jewish + 37.6% Central_Greek @ 4.45
15 90.4% Algerian_Jewish + 9.6% North_German @ 4.45
16 90.6% Algerian_Jewish + 9.4% Southeast_English @ 4.45
17 90.9% Algerian_Jewish + 9.1% Irish @ 4.45
18 52.7% Italian_Jewish + 47.3% South_Italian @ 4.46
19 90.9% Algerian_Jewish + 9.1% North_Dutch @ 4.47
20 56.7% Lebanese_Christian + 43.3% Spanish_Valencia @ 4.47

[Sikeliot]

Enna seems to be split half and half. Some parts seem similar to Syracuse and others to Caltanissetta/Palermo. Ragusa, similarly, is split between being similar to Syracuse and similar to Agrigento/Malta.

So the area of Sicily with a greater shift toward the rest of Europe is southern Catania, Syracuse, and parts of Enna and Ragusa close to the borders with them.

[Token]

For comparison here are some people from the west and center of the island. There should be more Norman here than in the southeast but it is almost entirely cancelled out by higher Middle Eastern. Jewish matches are further on the list, East Med components and Red Sea rise, and the people are closer to Levantines than to Iberians.

I can assure you that it has nothing to do with higher preservation of Italic ancestry, we still don't have Iron Age Italic genomes but by the time that Indo-European expansions reached Sicily, they were presumably already quite mixed with pre-IE Italian populations. Also, the U152 haplogroup subclade that most likely entered Italy with Italic-speakers have comparably lower incidences in southeast Sicily than in the west and this alone is enough to discard such theory. There seems to be a higher percentage of northern components in southeast Sicily, and even if Normans were historically not as present in the southeast as in the northwest, i do think that they are responsible for such difference, genetics doesn't always corresponds with written history. Germanic people like Vandals and Goths also settled this region, so it is quite hard to pin-point a source.

[Sikeliot]

I can assure you that it has nothing to do with higher preservation of Italic ancestry, we still don't have Iron Age Italic genomes but by the time that Indo-European expansions reached Sicily, they were presumably already quite mixed with pre-IE Italian populations. Also, the U152 haplogroup subclade that most likely entered Italy with Italic-speakers have comparably lower incidences in southeast Sicily than in the west and this alone is enough to discard such theory. There seems to be a higher percentage of northern components in southeast Sicily, and even if Normans were historically not as present in the southeast as in the northwest, i do think that they are responsible for such difference, genetics doesn't always corresponds with written history. Germanic people like Vandals and Goths also settled this region, so it is quite hard to pin-point a source.


Couldn't mainland Greek input increase the NE Euro too? That part of Sicily was heavily Peloponnesian.

[Token]

Couldn't mainland Greek input increase the NE Euro too? That part of Sicily was heavily Peloponnesian.
Nope, Greek input in Sicily predates Slavic migrations and, at this time, Greeks were genetically quite close to modern day Sicilians.

[Leto]

Please start using K13 as well. I rarely use K15.

[Sikeliot]

Nope, Greek input in Sicily predates Slavic migrations and, at this time, Greeks were genetically quite close to modern day Sicilians.

So you're saying that Sicilians plotting closer to modern mainland Greeks have historical admixture that shifts them north?

[Token]

So you're saying that Sicilians plotting closer to modern mainland Greeks have historical admixture that shifts them north?

Yes, basically that.

[Sikeliot]

Yes, basically that.

No Sicilian plots like north Greeks though because those regions have significant Slavic. But SE Sicily approaches Peloponnese.

Why might some West and central Sicilians be similar to North African Jews?

[Bobby Martnen]

Why might some West and central Sicilians be similar to North African Jews?

Because North African Jews haven't had the huge influx of Arabian ancestry North African Moslems had.

[Sikeliot]

Because North African Jews haven't had the huge influx of Arabian ancestry North African Moslems had.

But I mean what admixture brought Sicilians closer to those Jews? Clearly there is some Punic or Berber ancestry in the other side of Sicily much more than the southeast.

[Bobby Martnen]

But I mean what admixture brought Sicilians closer to those Jews? Clearly there is some Punic or Berber ancestry in the other side of Sicily much more than the southeast.

My guess is that in 1000 AD, Sicilians, Ashkenazic Jews, and North African Jews were essentially indistinguishable genetically. In the next 500 years, Sicilians received a little Norman (NW Euro), Ashkenazim received a little Slavic (NE Euro), and North African Jews received a little Berber (North African).