"The haplotypes A33-B14, B35-DR11 and B49-DR11 show that Armenians belong to the older Mediterranean substratum. The Armenian Diaspora may have displaced a common Armenian haplotype A33-B14 to all over the Mediterranean, including to the westernmost part"
"In summary, it seems than Turks, Kurds and Armenians are very close genetically and all of them seem to have been living in the area for many millennia, because typical Asian HLA genes are not found (39, 42–44). Probably, small different ‘‘elite’’ invaders imposed different languages on these three different groups who originally spoke a similar pre-Indo-European language (36). Armenians (Urartu 900 B.C.) and Kurds (’’Kurti‘‘) probably were initially splits of Hurrian groups (2nd millennium – 1st millennium B.C.), the Kurds remaining mainly at the mountains. Thus, the postulated Asian invasion (1200 B.C.) is not noticed on our HLA genetic studies. Finally, the cause that Greeks are genetically different from other Mediterraneans (Figs. 3 and 4) is that a part of their genetic pool comes from sub-Saharan Africa. Greeks are related to Anharic, Oromo and Fulani groups from Etiopia and Burkina-Faso (19)."
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