haplogroup J2

[adamo]

No there is more J2a in Sicily in general but north-central Italy has 10% J2b and 10% J2 M67

[Christos]

Thanks for your feedback everyone! More research for me!

[adamo]

The highest global frequencies of M67 are found in several Nakh people's (Chechens,Ingush), Georgians (18-20%), north-central Italians (10%), and Turks (10%), M67 originated in the Caucasus mountains near Georgia/Armenia and from there spread to north-central Italy via turkey.

[adamo]

http://gentis.ru/img/y/M67.gif. Highest frequencies of M67 on a map. It's really centred around Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the extreme southern Russian Caucasus, its a northern extension of middle easterners such as mesopotamians. It arrived to Italy via this northern middle eastern region, the Caucasus.

[RHAS]

"IE-speaking Iranians have largely the same haplogroups as Arabs, but a much higher representation of haplogroup J2 compared to J1. The converse is true for all Arabs except the Lebanese. But, we do know, that even in Lebanon itself, Muslims have a higher J1/J2 ratio than Christians, and Islam was the main vehicle of Arabization in the region. The Christians are descended from the pre-Arab Byzantine Greco-Aramaic populations."
Coastal-inland differences in Y chromosomes of the Levant.
http://dienekes.blogspot.nl/2009/08/coastal-inland-differences-in-y.html