Uniparental Markers of Contemporary Italian Population Reveals Details on Its Pre-Roman Heritage

Francesca Brisighelli; Vanesa Álvarez-Iglesias; Manuel Fondevila; Alejandro Blanco-Verea; Ángel Carracedo; Vincenzo L. Pascali; Cristian Capelli; Antonio Salas

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050794

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Uniparental Markers of Contemporary Italian Population Reveals Details on Its Pre-Roman Heritage

Francesca Brisighelli ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Brisighelli, Antonio Salas

Affiliations Unidade de Xenética, Facultade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Legal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Vanesa Álvarez-Iglesias,

Affiliation Unidade de Xenética, Facultade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Legal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Manuel Fondevila,

Affiliation Unidade de Xenética, Facultade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Legal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Alejandro Blanco-Verea,

Affiliation Unidade de Xenética, Facultade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Legal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Ángel Carracedo,

Affiliations Unidade de Xenética, Facultade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Legal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica (FPGMX-SERGAS), CIBER enfermedades raras, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Vincenzo L. Pascali,

Affiliation Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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Cristian Capelli,

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Antonio Salas

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Brisighelli, Antonio Salas

* E-mail: antonio.salas@usc.es

Affiliation Unidade de Xenética, Facultade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Legal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Uniparental Markers of Contemporary Italian Population Reveals Details on Its Pre-Roman Heritage

Francesca Brisighelli,
Vanesa Álvarez-Iglesias,
Manuel Fondevila,
Alejandro Blanco-Verea,
Ángel Carracedo,
Vincenzo L. Pascali,
Cristian Capelli,
Antonio Salas

Published: December 10, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050794

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Overestimated Admixture

Posted by Italianthro on 02 Jan 2015 at 13:27 GMT

This study greatly overestimates African and Asian admixture in Italians because it uses such a low number of inferior markers (52 AIMs) instead of all genome-wide data. When Italians are tested using 291,184 SNPs they have almost no admixture at all. The uniparental data in the study confirms this and doesn't fit with the AIM results.

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