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8/6/2025, 12:14:59 AM
https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/03/16/new-dna-study-southern-italy/
>In a study published by Biorxiv and titled: “Assessing temporal and geographic contacts across the Adriatic Sea through the analysis of genome-wide data from Southern Italy,” the researchers found that there was “a high similarity between Southern Italy and the Peloponnese.”
>“In fact, our cluster analysis showed that present-day South-Eastern Peloponnesian populations have high genetic affinity with modern Apulians, Calabrians and South-Eastern Sicilians, all characterised by a cluster composition different from those displayed by other Greek groups,” the researchers reported
>“Although establishing the chronological context for this affinity using present-day genomes might be challenging, our results are in accordance with archaeological and historical sources that attributed the origin of Greek colonies in South-Eastern Sicily and Apulia from populations inhabiting the southern and Eastern parts of the Peloponnese.
>“Uniparental Y-chromosome findings are also in agreement with these observations revealing Eastern Peloponnesian ancestries in East Sicily (34) and shared haplogroups among modern-day Greeks and populations living in Southern Italian areas colonised by Greeks such as the Salento (Apulia) and the Ionian coast of Calabria.”
>In a study published by Biorxiv and titled: “Assessing temporal and geographic contacts across the Adriatic Sea through the analysis of genome-wide data from Southern Italy,” the researchers found that there was “a high similarity between Southern Italy and the Peloponnese.”
>“In fact, our cluster analysis showed that present-day South-Eastern Peloponnesian populations have high genetic affinity with modern Apulians, Calabrians and South-Eastern Sicilians, all characterised by a cluster composition different from those displayed by other Greek groups,” the researchers reported
>“Although establishing the chronological context for this affinity using present-day genomes might be challenging, our results are in accordance with archaeological and historical sources that attributed the origin of Greek colonies in South-Eastern Sicily and Apulia from populations inhabiting the southern and Eastern parts of the Peloponnese.
>“Uniparental Y-chromosome findings are also in agreement with these observations revealing Eastern Peloponnesian ancestries in East Sicily (34) and shared haplogroups among modern-day Greeks and populations living in Southern Italian areas colonised by Greeks such as the Salento (Apulia) and the Ionian coast of Calabria.”
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