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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] This one is a bit confusing. [QUOTE]Using a genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panel, we observed population structure in a diverse group of Europeans and European Americans. Under a variety of conditions and tests, there is a consistent and reproducible [b]distinction between “northern” and “southern” European population groups: most individual participants with southern European ancestry (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek) have >85% membership in the “southern” population; and most northern, western, eastern, and central Europeans have >90% in the “northern” population group.[/b] [/QUOTE] http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.0020143 [QUOTE] Stamatoyannopoulos and his research team analyzed samples from 37 skeletons found in a cave in Crete’s Lassithi plateau and compared them with mitochondrial DNA sequences from 135 modern and ancient human populations. The Minoan samples revealed 21 distinct mitochondrial DNA variations, of which six were unique to the Minoans and 15 were shared with modern and ancient populations. None of the Minoans carried mitochondrial DNA variations characteristic of African populations. [b]Further analysis showed that the Minoans were only distantly related to Egyptian, Libyan, and other North African populations. [/b][i]The Minoan shared the greatest percentage of their mitochondrial DNA variation with European populations, especially those in Northern and Western Europe.[/i] When plotted geographically, shared Minoan mitochondrial DNA variation was lowest in North Africa and increased progressively across the Middle East, Caucasus, Mediterranean islands, Southern Europe, and mainland Europe. The highest percentage of shared Minoan mitochondrial DNA variation was found with Neolithic populations from Southern Europe. [/QUOTE] http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/dna-reveals-origins-of-minoan-civilization/ [QUOTE] Based on similarities between Minoan artifacts and those from Egypt and Libya,[b] Evans proposed that the Minoan civilization founders migrated into the area from North Africa[/b] [/QUOTE] http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/05/14/dna-analysis-unearths-origins-of-minoans-the-first-major-european-civilization/ [IMG]http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n5/images_article/ncomms2871-f3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n5/images_article/ncomms2871-f2.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE] The first Neolithic humans reached Crete about 9,000 years before present (YBP)1, 2, coinciding with the development and adoption of the agricultural practices in the Near East and the extensive Neolithic population diffusion (8,000–9,500 YBP) that brought farming to Europe3. [/QUOTE]--A European population in Minoan Bronze Age Crete, Jeffery R. Hughey et al. Looking into the supplements. It basically indirectly confirms that ancient Egyptians weren't related to Europeans and vice versa. Especially with the recent DNA on ancient Egyptian mummies. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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