What are Smyrna Greeks like autosomally?

[Bobby Martnen]

Does anyone have Eurogenes K15s of them?

[Sikeliot]

Similar to Sephardi Jews, I think.

[Bobby Martnen]

Similar to Sephardi Jews, I think.

Thanks - so you think they're essentially a mix of Greeks and native West Asians?

[Sikeliot]

Thanks - so you think they're essentially a mix of Greeks and native West Asians?

Yes, I do think that. Or native western Anatolian people (who would have been different than Pontians).

[Bobby Martnen]

Yes, I do think that. Or native western Anatolian people (who would have been different than Pontians).

So they're even more exotic than Sicilians, but less so than Cypriots.

[Sikeliot]

One of my Sicilian cousins scores it in her top 20 at a distance of 9, on MDLP K23.


Using 1 population approximation:
1 Sicilian_East_ @ 3.150239
2 Ashkenazi_Jew_ @ 3.601393
3 Sicilian_Agrigento_ @ 4.434644
4 Sicilian_Siracusa_ @ 4.571196
5 Sicilian_West_ @ 4.577428
6 French_Jew_ @ 4.926517
7 Maltese_ @ 5.157744
8 Sicilian_Trapani_ @ 5.485222
9 Ashkenazi_ @ 5.784578
10 Cretan_ @ 5.882085
11 Romanian_Jew_ @ 6.048171
12 Sicilian_Center_ @ 6.925311
13 Italian_Jew_ @ 7.105077
14 Turk_Jew_ @ 7.122460
15 Sephardic_Jew_ @ 7.292678
16 Italian_South_ @ 7.501063
17 Greek_Athens_ @ 9.029533
18 Greek_Smyrna_ @ 9.361027
19 Moroccan_Jew_ @ 9.485943
20 Greek_Phokaia_ @ 9.536835

[catgeorge]

Greek Smyrna + Samos + Ikaria is no difference at all

[Sikeliot]

Greek Smyrna + Samos + Ikaria is no difference at all

Samos was repopulated with mainland settlers.

[catgeorge]

Samos was repopulated with mainland settlers.

Greek islands were populated by refugees of Smyrna not mainlanders

[Armenian Bishop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YYy9PAee8

As most people already know, Modern Turkey renamed it: Formerly called Smyrna, it's now called Izmir.

With the Smyrna Fire, nearly a century ago (in 1922), Smyrna's ancestral composition was radically modified. Smyrna's Christian Quarters were burned to the ground; as many as 100,000 Greeks and Armenians were slaughtered there; 30,000 Greek and Armenian men were deported into the interior, where most of them were worked to death or executed; and, as many as 200,000 destitute Greek and Armenian Refugees were exiled to Greece.

Maybe someone can exhume the bones from the bottom of the Aegean Sea, who drowned when they tried to swim to safety. That way we can do DNA Tests with the bones of those whom drowned.