>>17990979
>A 2004 study by Semino et al. contradicted this study, and showed that Italians in North-central regions had a higher concentration of J2 than their Southern counterparts. North-central had 26.9% J2, whereas Calabria (a far Southern region) had 20.0%, Sardinia had 9.7% and Sicily had 16.7%

>A 2018 genetic study, focusing on the Y-chromosome and haplogroups lineages, their diversity and their distribution by taking some 817 representative subjects, gives credit to the traditional northern-southern division in population, by concluding that due to Neolithic migrations southern Italians "show a higher similarity with Middle Eastern and Southern Balkan populations than northern ones; conversely, northern samples are genetically closer to North-West Europe and Northern Balkan groups. The intermediate position of Volterra, between South and North Italy, is a mark of its unique Y-chromosomal genetic structure."

>It also keeps the debate about the origins of Etruscans open: the presence of J2a-M67* could substantiate the hypothesis of Herodotus, that of a migration from the sea of a population related to the Anatolians; the presence of G2a-L497 could point to a more Northern European origin; and finally, the European R1b lineages could suggest an autochtonous origin, following the theories of Dionysius of Halicarnassus

>>17934906
>>17934910
The funny thing is that Northern Italians from some regions have more J2 than Southern Italians and more Anatolia/Levant_N than Spaniards, French, English, Germans, Finns, Norwegians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Croats and Hungarians. It's no wonder they were the first Western Europeans to convert to Christianity, are the closest Europeans to Ashkenazi Jews in the PCA and have occultshit like "Venetian Black Nobility".

>A 2004 study by Semino et al. contradicted this study, and showed that Italians in North-central regions had a higher concentration of J2 than their Southern counterparts. North-central had 26.9% J2, whereas Calabria (a far Southern region) had 20.0%, Sardinia had 9.7% and Sicily had 16.7%

>A 2018 genetic study, focusing on the Y-chromosome and haplogroups lineages, their diversity and their distribution by taking some 817 representative subjects, gives credit to the traditional northern-southern division in population, by concluding that due to Neolithic migrations southern Italians "show a higher similarity with Middle Eastern and Southern Balkan populations than northern ones; conversely, northern samples are genetically closer to North-West Europe and Northern Balkan groups. The intermediate position of Volterra, between South and North Italy, is a mark of its unique Y-chromosomal genetic structure."

>It also keeps the debate about the origins of Etruscans open: the presence of J2a-M67* could substantiate the hypothesis of Herodotus, that of a migration from the sea of a population related to the Anatolians; the presence of G2a-L497 could point to a more Northern European origin; and finally, the European R1b lineages could suggest an autochtonous origin, following the theories of Dionysius of Halicarnassus