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A finely resolved phylogeny of Y chromosome Hg J illuminates the processes of Phoenician and Greek colonizations in the Mediterranean.
Scientific reports - 10 May 2018
Finocchio Andrea, Trombetta Beniamino, Messina Francesco, D'Atanasio Eugenia, Akar Nejat, Loutradis Aphrodite, Michalodimitrakis Emmanuel I, Cruciani Fulvio, Novelletto Andrea
Abstract excerpt
In order to improve the phylogeography of the male-specific genetic traces of Greek and Phoenician colonizations on the Northern coasts of the Mediterranean, we performed a geographically structured sampling of seven subclades of haplogroup J in Turkey, Greece and Italy. We resequenced 4.4 Mb of Y-chromosome in 58 subjects, obtaining 1079 high quality variants. We did not find a preferential coalescence of...
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