A few observations to these results.
1) Yes, overall the results from Ragusa and Syracuse are slightly more similar to the results from Greece.
2) But both the Ragusa and Syracuse results yield lower Caucusus input than any of the samples from Greece. The two results from Palermo are roughly equal with Greece. Messina has a greater Caucusus input than any of the results from Greece. What to make of this? Maybe now we are beginning to see why my paternal haplogroup from Messina is haplogroup G (Caucusus origin).
3) The Messina and Palermo results - especially Messina - show that the North European input is far below any of the Greek samples. Only about half, so quite a big difference. As you go southeast in Greece, toward Tilos, you get less and less North Euro input (as would be expected, geographically), but still Tilos is almost twice that of Messina. North European input is much higher for Ragusa and Syracuse (even though Ragusa and Syracuse have the highest North Euro input of any of the Sicilian samples), but still slightly below any of the Greek samples.
3) Messina and Palermo #1 have the highest North African contribution. North African contribution is significantly higher in these samples than in the Greek ones.
4) Other differences appear minor.
So, put simply, all the Sicilian samples, but especially Messina, are significantly LESS Northern European and also quite a fair bit MORE Northwest African than the samples from Greece. As we've discussed many times, Sicilians are plotting toward Cyprus, despite a small but noticeable Northwest African contribution.
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