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Italy: Etruscan civilization → Roman people → Medieval Italian

The Etruscans lived between the Arno and the Tiber, and from the late 4th century BCE Rome absorbed their land. Imperial Rome drew many migrants from the Near East, and Romans share only 25% with the Etruscans. Medieval Italy, by its male lines, is closer to the Etruscans again, at 66%.

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Italy: Y haplogroup shares of cultures that followed one another
How to read the chart

Each sample is cut to its ancestor at the chosen depth; a sample whose test did not reach that deep stays on its own branch. An asterisk: in this culture the branch also has samples further down. “A → B” is the share of A's samples with a branch of the same line in B: the same branch, its ancestor or a branch under it. A sample whose test stopped higher could belong to any branch under it, so it matches them. The frequency overlap sums the smaller share of every shared branch, such a sample's share split among the branches under it by their shares in both cultures together; it is less swayed by single samples. By age, a sample moves up to the ancestor whose branch had already split off by the chosen year (branch ages are Discover estimates), so every letter is cut at the same time. “Auto” takes the time of the oldest culture chosen, or earlier if a column would not read otherwise. Maternal lines follow the Mitotree tree of FTDNA Discover.

The chain in numbers #

Y-DNA, tree depth 9. Similarity is the overlap of branch frequencies with the culture before.

The chain in numbers
Culture Samples Leading groups Similarity with the previous
Etruscan civilization 35 R1b 62.9%, G2a 20.0%, J2b 11.4% —
Roman people 68 J2a 25.0%, R1b 19.1%, G2a 16.2% 25.0%
Medieval Italian 48 R1b 43.8%, G2a 14.6%, J2b 12.5% 44.3%

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