Ancient and recent admixture layers in Sicily and Southern Italy trace multiple migration routes along the Mediterranean

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Sarno, Stefania ^a   Boattini, Alessio ^a   Pagani, Luca ^b,c   Sazzini, Marco ^a   De Fanti, Sara ^a   Quagliariello, Andrea ^a   Ruscone, Guido Alberto Gnecchi ^a   Guichard, Etienne ^a   Ciani, Graziella ^a   Bortolini, Eugenio ^d,e   Barbieri, Chiara ^f   Cilli, Elisabetta ^a   Petrilli, Rosalba ^a   Mikerezi, Ilia ^g   Sineo, Luca ^h   Vilar, Miguel ⁱ   Wells, Spencer ⁱ   Luiselli, Donata ^a   Pettener, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History ^*  (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

ⁱ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; CYPRUS; DIFFERENTIATION; DIFFUSION; EASTERN EUROPE; GREECE; HUMAN; ITALIAN (CITIZEN); LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOLITHIC; SICILY; SPEECH;

EID: 85019602165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01802-4     Document Type: Article

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