(EN) Margaret L. Antonio, Ziyue Gao, Hannah M. Moots, Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean (abstract), in Science, vol. 366, n. 6466, Washington D.C., American Association for the Advancement of Science, novembre 2019, pp. 708-714, DOI:10.1126/science.aay6826.
«We collected data from 11 Iron Age individuals dating from 900 to 200 BCE (including the Republican period). This group shows a clear ancestry shift from the Copper Age, interpreted by ADMIXTURE as the addition of a Steppe-related ancestry component (...) Interestingly, although Iron Age individuals were sampled from both Etruscan (n=3) and Latin (n=6) contexts, we did not detect any significant differences between the two groups with f4 statistics in the form of f4(RMPR_Etruscan, RMPR_Latin; test population, Onge), suggesting shared origins or extensive genetic exchange between them.»
