I am Italian-born with paternal ancestry from Sicily and North Italy-Lombardy( paternal grandfather and p. grandmother) and from Lombardy( my mother lineage.)
Sicily has been a melting pot of people since antiquity, as witnessed by a number of genetic studies on the Sicilian population, which have found a very considerable Greek imprint, along with North African, Middle Eastern and Northern strands.
These various ethnic strands are described in genetic terminology as haplogroups, I believe .
Even though they can date back as far as 24,000 years ago or longer, there seems to be a consensus that a considerable part of the haplogroups defining the remarkable genetic diversity of modern Sicilians can be traced to historical events as recent as the Xth century B.C. onward, namely the Phoenician settlements in the Mediterranean, the rise of the Greek civilization, the Greek colonization of Southern Italy and Sicily in the VIIIth century B.C.,the Roman conquest of Sicily and, later, the Arabs and the Normans in the Xth century).
I think that my DNA could ( or should?) reflect the diversity of haplogroups of my Sicilian ancestry and to this purpose, I sent a sample to 23andME, hoping that some of them would show up in the report.
Unfortunately, they didn’t and my DNA test, beyond a wealth of other collateral, highly specialized information of little interest to me, didn’t go any further than confirming my South-European ancestry, broadly defining it as Italian, with Balkanic and other undefined South-European strands.
They say they didn’t test for haplogroups, because they do genotyping and Autosomal DNA.. From what I understand, a more in-depth haplogroup testing can be done only by whole genome sequencing.
From reading a number of DNA tests on the Sicilian population, I know that the more recurring haplogroups are G2a-P15: ( 12%) J2a-M410: 11%, E1b-V13 : 8% , J-M267 (Near-East): 6% , E-M81 (Berber)1.85%, along with a host or other less frequent ones.
I know that 50% of the genes are lost with each generation. Are there any chances that some of the above haplogroups can be found in my DNA? If so, how can I do this testing?
Thanks
Ittiandro
Sicily has been a melting pot of people since antiquity, as witnessed by a number of genetic studies on the Sicilian population, which have found a very considerable Greek imprint, along with North African, Middle Eastern and Northern strands.
These various ethnic strands are described in genetic terminology as haplogroups, I believe .
Even though they can date back as far as 24,000 years ago or longer, there seems to be a consensus that a considerable part of the haplogroups defining the remarkable genetic diversity of modern Sicilians can be traced to historical events as recent as the Xth century B.C. onward, namely the Phoenician settlements in the Mediterranean, the rise of the Greek civilization, the Greek colonization of Southern Italy and Sicily in the VIIIth century B.C.,the Roman conquest of Sicily and, later, the Arabs and the Normans in the Xth century).
I think that my DNA could ( or should?) reflect the diversity of haplogroups of my Sicilian ancestry and to this purpose, I sent a sample to 23andME, hoping that some of them would show up in the report.
Unfortunately, they didn’t and my DNA test, beyond a wealth of other collateral, highly specialized information of little interest to me, didn’t go any further than confirming my South-European ancestry, broadly defining it as Italian, with Balkanic and other undefined South-European strands.
They say they didn’t test for haplogroups, because they do genotyping and Autosomal DNA.. From what I understand, a more in-depth haplogroup testing can be done only by whole genome sequencing.
From reading a number of DNA tests on the Sicilian population, I know that the more recurring haplogroups are G2a-P15: ( 12%) J2a-M410: 11%, E1b-V13 : 8% , J-M267 (Near-East): 6% , E-M81 (Berber)1.85%, along with a host or other less frequent ones.
I know that 50% of the genes are lost with each generation. Are there any chances that some of the above haplogroups can be found in my DNA? If so, how can I do this testing?
Thanks
Ittiandro
