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This compares similarities to places close to Europe but, it often doesn't compare to homogenous populations. Places like Italy and Greece, are also mixed so it's like comparing mulattoes to other mulattoes without telling us what they're mixed with. At least, not when you compare them to one another. No sh!t they're similar, but what more homogenous contributions made the more mulatto areas of modern Europe?
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Italians and Greeks are just as mixed as any other population. Its just that they carry vestiges in their Y Chromosomes that aren't very representative of their entire genome anymore. The same thing has happened to certain R-V88 carrying Chadians and Berbers. Taking the Berbers for example: in their Y chromosome profile E-M81 predominates, but in their entire genome the polymorphisms that are associated with this ancestry are minuscule. The genomic contribution that is associated with their Central/West African contribution (e.g., E-M2) is much larger, even though their E-M2 is much lower in frequency than their E-M81.
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