Similarity of roman-Byzantine-modern Anatolian mtDNA to modern populations.

[Voskos]

Abstract

More than two decades of archaeological research at the site of Sagalassos, in southwest Turkey, resulted in the study of the former urban settlement in all its features. Originally settled in late Classical/early Hellenistic times, possibly from the later fifth century BCE onwards, the city of Sagalassos and its surrounding territory saw empires come and go. The Plague of Justinian in the sixth century CE, which is considered to have caused the death of up to a third of the population in Anatolia, and an earthquake in the seventh century CE, which is attested to have devastated many monuments in the city, may have severely affected the contemporary Sagalassos community. Human occupation continued, however, and Byzantine Sagalassos was eventually abandoned around 1200 CE. In order to investigate whether these historical events resulted in demographic changes across time, we compared the mitochondrial DNA variation of two population samples from Sagalassos (Roman and Middle Byzantine) and a modern sample from the nearby town of Ağlasun. Our analyses revealed no genetic discontinuity across two millennia in the region and Bayesian coalescence-based simulations indicated that a major population decline in the area coincided with the final abandonment of Sagalassos, rather than with the Plague of Justinian or the mentioned earthquake.

Source: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.o...ent/3/2/150250

[Bosniensis]

huehuehue

Well that's logical, nothing can remove people from Earth like some modern historians imagine.

People still believe that 9 million Anatolian people vanished into thin air after 300.000 Turks entered Anatolia.

Also when they talk about western balkan which was 100% Illyrian 500 A.D they say: Plague came and killed everyone, then some Slavs came.

haha

[Voskos]

In agreement with published data from modern Turkish populations [26], lineages of East Eurasian descent assigned to macro-haplogroup M were found in the modern sample from Ağlasun. This haplogroup is significantly more frequent in Ağlasun (15%) than in Byzantine Sagalassos, where it is absent (the non-significant value of the Roman sample might be most likely due to its low sample size), thus indicating that this East Eurasian component may have been introduced later, either recently or even as early as the Seljuk invasion of Turkey in the eleventh century CE.

[Lauχum]

All these mtDNA studies yet there hasn't been a good autosomal DNA paper in months. SMH

[Bosniensis]

What was the major mtDNA among Late Romans (Byzantines) and Romans in Anatolia?

[Gangrel]

Mtdna means nothing

[Voskos]

What was the major mtDNA among Late Romans (Byzantines) and Romans in Anatolia?

All Sagalassos sequences fall into a set of haplogroups within macrohaplogroups N (X, W and N1b) and R (R0a, H, V, HV, U, K, J and T) that are characteristic of West Eurasians. None of the sequences from Sagalassos belong to the East/South Asian macrohaplogroup M and subSaharan haplogroups (L1, L2 and L3A).