occupation of Spain by the Arabs and northafrican armies (moors) that lasted about 500 years on average, left almost no genetical trace comment

Yes Dear Wesleyana Forever. LOL was wrong because he didnt deeply understand what a haplogroup is and what it represents.

He thought that every people surrounding Greece in Eastern Europe, North Africa or Middle East had "some Greek" in them!. This is an absurd imperialistic vision very "greek-centric"!. Is not thay they have some greek in them (Turcs could have said also that greeks had some turc in them), but that ALL THEM ARE GENETICALLY CLOSELY RELATED AS THEY SHARE A COMMON ORIGIN.

In fact, modern genetic analisys have shown that a lot of northern and central Italians are very much related with turcs and northafricans than the rest of europeans.

“Genetically speaking, Finns and ITALIANS ARE THE MOST ATYPICAL EUROPEANS”.

“The relative isolation of Italian genetics is probably due to the Alps, providing a geographic barrier to the free and unhindered flow of population to and from Italy… Although Hannibal, the Celtic and Germanic influence in Italy’s north and of course the expansion of the Roman Empire would seem to contradict this.”

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/3...

Genetic research made public at the weekend appears to put the matter beyond doubt, however. It shows ¡THE ETRUSCANS CAME FROM THE AREA THAT IS NOW TURKEY!.

“The nearest genetic relatives of many of today’s Tuscans and Umbrians are to be found, NOT IN ITALY, BUT AROUND IZMIR (TURKEY).”

“Very significant frequencies of SUB-SAHARAN (AFRICA) mtDNA haplogroups L WERE FOUND IN CENTRAL ITALY AND SPECIALLY IN LAZIO around Roma (2.90 %!). What is very interesting is that these frequencies in Central Italy are much higher to the frequencies found in South Italy.”

“Of particular interest is that the HpaI-3/AvaII-3 complex, which is unique to groups of African ancestry, was found in Sicily at a frequency of 4.4%. For the first time an estimate of THE AMOUNT OF GENE FLOW FROM BLACKS TO THE SICILIAN GENE POOL COULD BE OBTAINED.”

This same analisys have shown than contrary to common disinformated belief, spaniards have very little to do with northafrican populations and that the occupation of Spain by the Arabs and northafrican armies (moors) that lasted about 500 years on average, left almost no genetical trace and that spaniards are basically celtiberians, and that their dark complexions are exclusively related with the inheritance of ancient paleolithic european settlers and to good weather conditions.


http://www.topix.com/forum/world/greece/TVROG70TAP301H4TT/p3