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DNA diversity and population admixture in Anatolia by Giulietta Di Benedetto; Ayşe Ergüven; Michele Stenico; Loredana Castrfi; Giorgio Bertorelle; Inci Togan; Guido Barbujani is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract The Turkic language was introduced in Anatolia at the start of this millennium, by nomadic Turkmen groups from Central Asia. Whether that cultural transition also had significant population‐genetics consequences is not fully understood. Three nuclear microsatellite loci, the hypervariable region I of the mitochondrial genome, six microsatellite loci of the Y chromosome, and one __Alu__ insertion (__YAP__) were amplified and typed in 118 individuals from four populations of Anatolia. For each locus, the number of chromosomes considered varied between 51–200. Genetic variation was large within samples, and much less so between them. The contribution of Central Asian genes to the current Anatolian gene pool was quantified using three different methods, considering for comparison populations of Mediterranean Europe, and Turkic‐speaking populations of Central Asia. The most reliable estimates suggest roughly 30% Central Asian admixture for both mitochondrial and Y‐chromosome loci. That (admittedly approximate) figure is compatible both with a substantial immigration accompanying the arrival of the Turkmen armies (which is not historically documented), and with continuous gen

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Author

Giulietta Di Benedetto; Ayşe Ergüven; Michele Stenico; Loredana Castrfi; Giorgio Bertorelle; Inci Togan; Guido Barbujani

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 0002-9483)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)