title: Culture and biology: surnames in evaluating genetic relationships among the ethnic minorities of Southern Italy and Sicily.
abstract: Surnames of grandparents were collected from children in the primary schools of the Albanian-Italian, Croat-Italian, and Greek-Italian villages. The coefficients of relationships by isonymy show almost no relationship with ethnicity. Ethnolinguistic minorities of Southern Italy and Sicily are geographically subdivided in two main clusters: the first cluster comprises the Albanian, Croat, and Greek communities of the Adriatic area; and the second cluster comprises the Albanian communities of the Ionian, Thirrenian and Sicilian area. The Greeks of Reggio Calabria Province are completely separated from the other communities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal and Human Biology, University of Rome-La Sapienza, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vienna
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Biondi
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D009275:Names; D012802:Sicily