title: Moors and Saracens in Europe: estimating the medieval North African male legacy in southern Europe.
abstract: To investigate the male genetic legacy of the Arab rule in southern Europe during medieval times, we focused on specific Northwest African haplogroups and identified evolutionary close STR-defined haplotypes in Iberia, Sicily and the Italian peninsula. Our results point to a higher recent Northwest African contribution in Iberia and Sicily in agreement with historical data. southern Italian regions known to have experienced long-term Arab presence also show an enrichment of Northwest African types. The forensic and genomic implications of these findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. cristian.capelli@zoo.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Capelli
authors.forename: Valerio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Onofri
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brisighelli
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Boschi
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scarnicci
authors.forename: Mara
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Masullo
authors.forename: Gianmarco
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ferri
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tofanelli
authors.forename: Adriano
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tagliabracci
authors.forename: Leonor
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gusmao
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amorim
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gatto
authors.forename: Mirna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kirin
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Merlitti
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brion
authors.forename: Alejandro Blanco
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Verea
authors.forename: Valentino
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cali
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pascali
mesh_terms: D000352:Africa, Northern / Q000208:ethnology; D018912:Arabs / Q000235:genetics*; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y / Q000235:genetics*; D005060:Europe; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005843:Geography; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male