Hauteville
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- Ethnic group
- Italian
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- I-S185
- mtDNA haplogroup
- U5b2b
Yes some islander Greeks have some Slavic Y-Chromosome at the same time Sicily is one of the most germanized regions by Y-Chromosome of Italy that make equal all.In terms of autosomal DNA Cretans are close to Sicilians (but again, their y-dna pool shows Slavic influence via R1a and I2), Cypriots are not even in the European cluster on any PCA plot, they are basically Levantines themselves.
Maps by the same author.
On the same study also Calabrians and Lucanians have similar amount of IBD sharing with North Africans and those two regions never had Muslims occupations, and IBD is reciprocal. Which can means that there is a significant Italian input on Maghrebi region since Roman times or in the times of Norman conquest when most of the muslims (in large part were local converts) settled to North Africa.Sicilians DO have high IBD sharing with Maghrebi people, implying that the North African input into the population is more recent.
The estimating TMRCA of J1 and J2 in Southern Italy and Sicily is indeed in the early bronze age said Stefania Sarno. If there is some Punic DNA you can find it around Marsala or maybe Palermo but the rest of Sicily hadn't Phoenician settlements unlike North Africa and Iberian peninsula for example, but again we don't really know who were the Phoenicians and what is their DNA, a Phoenician man from Carthage had European mtDNA for example.Phoenicians or anything more recent, and that the Sikels, Sicanians, and Elymians at the time of contact with Phoenicians had already been genetically shifted toward West Asia.