A genome-wide study of modern-day Tuscans: revisiting Herodotus's theory on the origin of the Etruscans

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 9; p. e105920
• Main Authors: Pardo-Seco, Jacobo, Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, Amigo, Jorge, Martinón-Torres, Federico, Salas, Antonio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 17.09.2014; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Archaeology; Bioinformatics; Biology and Life Sciences; Data processing; DNA, Mitochondrial; Emigration and Immigration; Genetic distance; Genetic markers; Genetics, Population; Genome-Wide Association Study - methods; Genomes; Herodotus (c. 484 – 425/413 BCE); Italy; Population; Scholars; Single-nucleotide polymorphism; Studies; Italy; Anatolia; Turkey; Etruria; Asia Minor; Galicia Spain; Spain

The origin of the Etruscan civilization (Etruria, Central Italy) is a long-standing subject of debate among scholars from different disciplines. The bulk of the information has been reconstructed from ancient texts and archaeological findings and, in the last few years, through the analysis of unipa...