Greece and Turkey genetic map( today)

• J2=24% -Typical of populations of the Near East, Southeast Europe, Southwest Asia and the Caucasus
• R1b=14.7% -Typical of Western Europeans and Eurasian People
• G=10.9% - Typical of people from the Caucasus and to a lesser extent the Middle East.
• E1b1b1=10.7% - Typical of people from the Mediterranean
• J1=9% - Typical amongst people from the Arabian Peninsula and Dagestan
  
• R1a=6.9% - Typical of Central Asian, Caucasus, Eastern Europeans and Indo-Aryan people.
• I=5.3% - Typical of Central Europeans, Western Caucasian and Balkan populations.
• K=4.5% - Typical of Asian populations and Caucasian populations.
• L=4.2% - Typical of Indian Subcontinent and Khorasan populations.
• N=3.8% - Typical of Uralic, Siberian and Altaic populations.
• T=2.5% - Typical of Mediterranean, Northeast African and South Asian populations
• Q=1.9% - Typical of Northern Altaic populations.

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It's not the name of a Hittite king, but it does look very Luwian.  A Luwian king of Arzawa was named Tarhundaradu at the time of the Hittite king Suppiluliumas I and the Egyptian king Amenophis III whom the Arzawan king corresponded with.   His name has the element Tarhund- which answers to the name of the Luwian god Tarhundas (or Tarhunt), the Weather-god.   The name is from the word tarh- which meant, "to conquer". 

Maju and Leonidas, Thank you for your interest and for your scientific participations. It's nice to read your approaches.

Maju, you say:"It also means that most of the population in Turkey (and elsewhere) is truly old, at least via mothers, and not the product of any historical or even late prehistoric migration." Yes, the prehistorical/historical documents and scientific clues make me think just like you. So I can say that we are the "Turkish speaking Anotolian natives".  Have you seen Hitit men on wall pictures who are wearing high semi-coni-shaped hats? Some villagers, living in �orum- -even now- wear this kind of hats. Folcloric hats and head coverages of women (on which have gold coins) in some regions of Anotolia are similar with those on the Urartian wall pictures. Most of the city, town, village, river, lake names in Anotolia have Luwian origin. People here think that they are Turkish but most words aren't Turkish. Turkish speaking people have changed teir pronouncations spoutanously in centuries in order to adapt them into Turkish language. If you search the ethimology, you see that they have L�wian origins. Even the name of some places which had been supposed to have Greek origin have Luwian origin.

Here are another searches on Y chromosomes (shoving paternal lineages). I want to share them with you. But I don't have full-text articles, they are not free online.

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Arfunda

 Hum Genet. 2004 Jan;114(2):127-48. Epub 2003 Oct 29.

Excavating Y-chromosome haplotype strata in Anatolia.

Cinnioglu C, King R, Kivisild T, Kalfoglu E, Atasoy S, Cavalleri GL, Lillie AS, Roseman CC, Lin AA, Prince K, Oefner PJ, Shen P, Semino O, Cavalli-Sforza LL, Underhill PA.

Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5120, USA.

Analysis of 89 biallelic polymorphisms in 523 Turkish Y chromosomes revealed 52 distinct haplotypes with considerable haplogroup substructure, as exemplified by their respective levels of accumulated diversity at ten short tandem repeat (STR) loci. The major components (haplogroups E3b, G, J, I, L, N, K2, and R1; 94.1%) are shared with European and neighboring Near Eastern populations and contrast with only a minor share of haplogroups related to Central Asian (C, Q and O; 3.4%), Indian (H, R2; 1.5%) and African (A, E3*, E3a; 1%) affinity. The expansion times for 20 haplogroup assemblages was estimated from associated STR diversity. This comprehensive characterization of Y-chromosome heritage addresses many multifaceted aspects of Anatolian prehistory, including: (1) the most frequent haplogroup, J, splits into two sub-clades, one of which (J2) shows decreasing variances with increasing latitude, compatible with a northward expansion; (2) haplogroups G1 and L show affinities with south Caucasus populations in their geographic distribution as well as STR motifs; (3) frequency of haplogroup I, which originated in Europe, declines with increasing longitude, indicating gene flow arriving from Europe; (4) conversely, haplogroup G2 radiates towards Europe; (5) haplogroup E3b3 displays a latitudinal correlation with decreasing frequency northward; (6) haplogroup R1b3 emanates from Turkey towards Southeast Europe and Caucasia and; (7) high resolution SNP analysis provides evidence of a detectable yet weak signal (<9%) of recent paternal gene flow from Central Asia. The variety of Turkish haplotypes is witness to Turkey being both an important source and recipient of gene flow.

Ann Hum Genet. 2001 Jul;65(Pt 4):339-49.

A multistep process for the dispersal of a Y chromosomal lineage in the Mediterranean area.

Malaspina P, Tsopanomichalou M, Duman T, Stefan M, Silvestri A, Rinaldi B, Garcia O, Giparaki M, Plata E, Kozlov AI, Barbujani G, Vernesi C, Papola F, Ciavarella G, Kovatchev D, Kerimova MG, Anagnou N, Gavrila L, Veneziano L, Akar N, Loutradis A, Michalodimitrakis EN, Terrenato L, Novelletto A.

Department of Biology, University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.

In this work we focus on a microsatellite-defined Y-chromosomal lineage (network 1.2) identified by us and reported in previous studies, whose geographic distribution and antiquity appear to be compatible with the Neolithic spread of farmers. Here, we set network 1.2 in the Y-chromosomal phylogenetic tree, date it with respect to other lineages associated with the same movements by other authors, examine its diversity by means of tri- and tetranucleotide loci and discuss the implications in reconstructing the spread of this group of chromosomes in the Mediterranean area. Our results define a tripartite phylogeny within HG 9 (Rosser et al. 2000), with the deepest branching defined by alleles T (Haplogroup Eu10) or G (Haplogroup Eu9) at M172 (Semino et al. 2000), and a subsequent branching within Eu9 defined by network 1.2. Population distributions of HG 9 and network 1.2 show that their occurrence in the surveyed area is not due to the spread of people from a single parental population but, rather, to a process punctuated by at least two phases. Our data identify the wide area of the Balkans, Aegean and Anatolia as the possible homeland harbouring the largest variation within network 1.2. The use of recently proposed tests based on the stepwise mutation model suggests that its spread was associated to a population expansion, with a high rate of male gene flow in the Turkish-Greek area.

Am J Phys Anthropol. 2001 Jun;115(2):144-56.

DNA diversity and population admixture in Anatolia.

Di Benedetto G, Erguven A, Stenico M, Castri L, Bertorelle G, Togan I, Barbujani G.

Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy.

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 gene flow from Asia into Anatolia, at a rate of 1% for 40 generations. Because a military invasion is expected to more deeply affect the male gene pool, similar estimates of admixture for female- and male-transmitted traits are easier to reconcile with continuous migratory contacts between Anatolia and its Asian neighbors, perhaps facilitated by the disappearance of a linguistic barrier between them. Copyright 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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