Angela
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That’s all I can find. They made me login.
AncestryDNA split Italy in 2, North and South. The South split in 8 Genetic Communities, the North doesn’t, and I can’t find Sicily and Sardinia.
Never Mind. Sardinia is with Iberia, and Sicily with Nord Africa.
This is all total nonsense in my opinion. Northern Italy is much less homogeneous than Southern Italy. Part of that is different migrations, more Gauls in the west, more Central European in the east, but I think part of it is also that Southern Italy was ruled more or less as one unit for the last 1600 years. People moved about. From Rome north, everything was divided into different municipalities, or was part of the Papal States, or was ruled by different foreign governments. Just moving from place to place was more difficult. So, there was a lot of drift. As a result of both factors, people from the Veneto are quite different from people from Piemonte, and the differences are greater when you get to coastal Liguria or Toscana.
Are they using only their own testees as references? That would explain it. If they've got, just as an example, 10,000 Southerners who have tested, and 100 Northern Italians, they're going to pick up slight differences among Southerners and they can't differentiate too well among Northerners.
Sicily with North Africa? Are they kidding? The specifically "North African" in Sicilians can't be more than 5%. Has any of them ever looked at yDna distribution? Maybe there's a bit more in certain isolated places along the southern coast where more Berbers settled, or in strongholds. As in Spain, most of them were exiled.
Then, what is all this overlap? Three different groups with Campania in them? I bet these are all mixed Southern Italian Americans. You can't use mixed people for references in Italy. That's why Dienekes never used me for either the Northern Italians or the Tuscans.
This looks like work done by people who have never read an academic paper on population genetics in Southern Europe in their entire lives. "Shoemakers" as my dad would have said, not professionals.
Maybe some day Lazaridis will tire of the ivory towers of academia and try to make some real money. Then we'd get a calculator worth something.
@Stuvane,
I don't remember. You're from eastern Emilia-Romagna?
That's the reason, I think, but it's still wrong.
