Cypriots are Middle easterner?
Is common to find Cypriots in U.K, I've always considered them as White like Greek, Spanish, Italian type..... but it seems they are more related with the Syrian Arabs, nothing wrong with it just surprised that their European admixture is so small like 13%.
Auteur(s) / Author(s) BAYSAL E. (1) ; INDRAK K. ; BOZKURT G. ; BERKALP A. ; ARITKAN E. ; OLD J. M.
; IOANNOU P. ; ANGASTINIOTIS M. ; DROUSHIOTOU A. ; YÜREGIR G. T. ; HUISMAN T. H. J. ;
Abstract
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We have identified the β-thalassaemia alleles in nearly all known Turkish
Cypriot β-thalassaemia homozygotes and in over 700 Greek Cypriot β-
thalassaemia heterozygotes living on the island of Cyprus. The data
confirmed earlier observations that the IVS-I-100 (G→A) mutation is present
for about 74–80%, while three other alleles [IVS-II-745 (C→G), IVS-I-6 (T→
C), IVS-I-1 (G→A)] occur at frequencies of 5–8%. Nearly identical
percentages were observed for the two Cypriot groups, quite different from
those for β-thalassaemia patients from Greece and Turkey. This suggests
close contacts between the two Cypriot communities during many centuries
without a major recent influence from Greek or Turkish β-thalassaemia
carriers.
Revue / Journal Title British journal of haematology ISSN 0007-1048 CODEN BJHEAL Source / Source 1992, vol. 81, no4, pp. 607-609 (1/4 p.)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1390250
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However, this can be problematic for some Cypriots considering the division
of the island and political problems enshrouding it. Which community do we
look to, “in Cyprus there are only ever Greeks or Turks” right? So do we
mean Greek or Turkish Cypriots? Not so, one Medical Doctor and Researcher
Dr. Geoffrey Dean claims: “there is little genetic difference between Greek
and Turkish Cypriots.” Historically, he argues that Ottoman soldiers who
took up residence in Cyprus after the Conquest of 1571 were known to take up to four Greek Christian wives and that intermarriage was more common than people think. Pointing to another blood disease, Dr Dean argues that the fact that the Thalessemia gene is prevalent in 16% of all ‘Greek’ and
‘Turkish’ Cypriots is evidence that their blood group is very similar and
quite different to Greeks and Turks. In fact, Dr Dean says: “They are
Cypriots not Greeks or Turks.”
contrast Syrian genetic make-up
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/90/imagenbgl6.png/
with Cypriot and see how similar they are.
Y-Dna haplogroups are found at the following frequencies in Cyprus : J (43.07% including 6.20% J1), E1b1b (20.00%), R1 (12.30% including 9.2% R1b), F (9.20%), I (7.70%), K (4.60%), A (3.10%).[117] J, K, F and E1b1b
They are do not cluster with Greeks or any other Europeans on the genetic map.
Their closest relatives are Syrians, Druze, Jews and Lebanese.
Recent genetic clustering analyses of ethnic groups are consistent with the close ancestral relationship between the Druze and Cypriots, and also identified similarity to the general Syrian and Lebanese populations, as well as a variety of Jewish lineages (Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Iraqi, and Moroccan) (Behar et al 2010).[52]
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