Preislamic genetic berber influence in Galicia (NorthWestern Spain). New genetic study.

[Davidtab]

Xenetistas escriben por vez primeira a historia da poboación galega e sentan as bases da medicina personalizada | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

A secuenciación do xenoma completo en Galicia revela unha ascendencia norteafricana preislámica con sesgo masculino e patróns microxeográficos de risco de enfermidade

www.usc.gal

Antonio Salas Elllacuriaga and Federico Martinón Torres, from USC University, has discovered the origin of the surprising 12-15% berber genetic influx in Galicia (NorthWestern Spain), the highest in Spain. This influx has its origin in preislamic times, mainly in VI and VII centuries, during suevic and visigotic rule in the Gallaecia Kingdom. Seems to be a mainly male influx genetically more compatible with the present berber inhabitants of M´Zab valley in Algerie, now muslims of ibadi faith (like omanites). The entry gate of this berber influx seems to have been southern galician harbours. Recent archeological news talk about important mining and trading activity between southern Galicia and Mediterranean in those times: VI and VII centuries. Surely this dinamics were very similar in north Portugal.

 

[Vallicanus]

Interesting.
Why would Mozabite-like People come to 7th century Suevic Galicia?

 

[kingdavid]

i think this is the relevant paper :

Whole-genome sequencing in Galicia reveals male-biased pre-Islamic North African ancestry, subtle population structure, and micro-geographic patterns of disease risk

Galicia, located at the westernmost edge of Europe, has been reported to exhibit distinctive genetic traits compared to other Iberian populations. We present the first whole-genome sequencing (WGS) study of a Galician population (GALOMICS [GAL]; n = 91, 17.2 million variants...

www.biorxiv.org

p.s
i don't know about there conclusions

here is an old paper from 2004 :

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8608827_Hierarchical_analysis_of_30_Y-chromosome_SNPs_in_European_populations

it looked at the y haplogroups distribution in larger sample of 292 galicians

 

[real expert]

Interesting.
Why would Mozabite-like People come to 7th century Suevic Galicia?

Imo, this study is poorly done and needs to be read with caution.