Identifying Genetic Traces of Historical Expansions: Phoenician Footprints in the Mediterranean Pierre A. Zalloua, Daniel E. Platt, Mirvat El Sibai, Jade Khalife, Nadine Makhoul, Marc Haber, Yali Xue, Hassan Izaabel, Elena Bosch, Susan M. Adams, Eduardo Arroyo, Ana María López-Parra, Mercedes Aler, Antònia Picornell, Misericordia Ramon, Mark A. Jobling, David Comas, Jaume Bertranpetit, R. Spencer Wells, Chris Tyler-Smith The American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 83, Issue 5, Pages 633-642 (November 2008) DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.10.012 Copyright © 2008 The American Society of Human Genetics Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Geographical context of the Phoenician and Greek expansions (A) Maritime expansions of the Phoenicians (11th century BCE) and Greeks. Red: Phoenicia, Phoenician colonies; pink: Phoenician trading posts; blue: Greece and Greek colonies. (B) J2 haplogroup frequency comparisons between Phoenician contact regions (thick borders) and nearby non-contact regions (thin borders). Lines indicate paired haplogroup comparisons between two sites. An ellipse indicates a site with multiple population samples. Colored circles indicate the higher haplogroup J2 frequency site in each pair. (C) Phoenician Colonization Signal 1 (PCS1+) haplotype frequency comparisons between Phoenician contact regions (thick borders) and nearby non-contact regions (thin borders). Lines indicate paired haplotype comparisons between two sites. An ellipse indicates a site with multiple population samples. Colored circles represent the higher PCS1+ frequency site in each pair. (D–F) Geographical distribution of the PCS1+ (D), PCS2+ (E), and PCS3+ (F) haplotypes in the Mediterranean region. The PCS+ central haplotypes are shown in Table 2. Higher color intensities indicate higher haplotype frequencies; absolute frequencies are given in Table 3. Note the highly enriched coastal and island distribution of these haplotypes and the prominence of all in the Levant. The American Journal of Human Genetics 2008 83, 633-642DOI: (10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.10.012) Copyright © 2008 The American Society of Human Genetics Terms and Conditions