Angela
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Does anyone know if there's been any discussion of the peculiar fact that the modern Italian population sample from southern Italy has a low FST to absolutely everyone (including ancient and modern Greeks) except Sicilians?
I've thought and said for a long time there's something wrong with that sample, and thus of all the convoluted analysis of it, and this may be the proof. If I remember correctly, it was collected as part of a medical paper looking at isolated populations for genetic disease markers. Perhaps it was from an Estonian Biosphere paper on that subject? Does anyone have any data on that?
If that's the case, it might just be a very drifted, idiosyncratic sample, like the ones from very isolated areas in far northeastern Italy, whom no one would consider using for a study like this. I think there's a problem with using samples like this to make big generalizations about the population genetics of a large area like southern Italy, or even Calabria itself. It would be like using that drifted still Griko speaking sample from the mountains behind Reggio Calabria.
I've thought and said for a long time there's something wrong with that sample, and thus of all the convoluted analysis of it, and this may be the proof. If I remember correctly, it was collected as part of a medical paper looking at isolated populations for genetic disease markers. Perhaps it was from an Estonian Biosphere paper on that subject? Does anyone have any data on that?
If that's the case, it might just be a very drifted, idiosyncratic sample, like the ones from very isolated areas in far northeastern Italy, whom no one would consider using for a study like this. I think there's a problem with using samples like this to make big generalizations about the population genetics of a large area like southern Italy, or even Calabria itself. It would be like using that drifted still Griko speaking sample from the mountains behind Reggio Calabria.