All else being equal,
genes mirror geography in Europe. We've already seen this by
comparing Italians to Germans, and now we can do another similar comparison. A new study that has even better geographical coverage than
Sazzini et al. (2016) shows the samples clustering to form an almost perfect map of Italy, while another new study shows the same thing in the British Isles.
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NOTE: For the samples in gray, "NWEur" is actually Southern French, "WEur" are Spanish and Portuguese, and "SEEur" is Greeks.]
Raveane et al.
"Population structure of modern-day Italians reveals patterns of ancient and archaic ancestries in Southern Europe".
Sci Adv, 2019.
Gilbert et al.
"The genetic landscape of Scotland and the Isles".
PNAS, 2019.
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