Northern and Southern Italians genetically distinct, Greeks, Northern Italians, Spaniards of Balkan stock (which is genetically distinct from European stock)
(files.catbox.moe)https://files.catbox.moe/evdvwt.png Overall, patterns of IBD-relatedness suggest that ‘continuum’ populations (i.e. both Southern Italy and the Mediterranean Greek islands) share relatively more segments with the Caucasus and the Near East, while
Albania and continental Greece appear significantly more related with Central and Northern Balkans, as well as
Eastern Europe
These results suggest that the genetic history of Southern Italian and Balkan populations may have been, at least in part,
independent from that of Eastern and Central Europe, involving specific migratory events that carried Caucasian
and Levantine genetic contributes along the Mediterranean shores (see Supplementary Information).
