Very interesting :D
I spoke to a woman on 23andme who is one quarter Sicilian from Palermo .. her grandmother is blonde and blue eyed. The rest of her ancestry is Irish, German, and French I believe.. and she on one DNA run got 14% "Turkish-Persian-Caucasus".. might have been Eurogenes or another calculator.
Which would only be further proof that Eurogenes is such bullshit. There is nothing Persian-like about Palermitans.
Well, if there is no Levantine reference population, the West Asian affinity or Phoenician could be misread as such. But it is Persian-Turkish-Caucasus.. maybe Elymian, if we subscribe to the idea that western Sicilians retain Elymian genes.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfieb
If the Elymians even originated as has been speculated in Troy or elsewhere in modern Turkey. We don't know.
I added another Sicilian on 23andme, whose dad's family is from Catania. Their y-dna is J1e (this makes the third one yet on 23andme I have added). They are half Irish though so I won't post their breakdown here.
Catanese Arabs, eh? :p
I have:
6 R1b's
3 E1b
1 R1a
1 J1
1 J2
1 I1
1 I2
1 G2
I also am sharing with a J2a2a from an unknown part of Sicily but he is also half Neapolitan.
J1 is more common than I expected, based on the limited number of people we have. Is your J1 a J1e?
Yes. His mtDNA HG is HV, if you think you might also be sharing with him.
Rep comment me the initials and I'll tell you.Quote:
Originally Posted by alfieb
EDIT: yes, I am sharing with them too.