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i think they are, but if your that curious, go look it up in google.  
its easier that way

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I know. I just wanted to see how people would react to the question.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

And, Jeannie, I mean white as in race.

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They're tanned.  
But not like black.

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Generally, yes - but many South Italians have questionable ancestry and the Northern Whites believes they are all mixed.

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Northern Europeans believe a lot of strange things.  Southern Italians are not Arab...don't start that.

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Joining the Pillars of Hercules: mtDNA Sequences Show Multidirectional Gene Flow in the Western Mediterranean

S. Plaza, F. Calafell, A. Helal, N. Bouzerna, G. Lefranc, J. Bertranpetit and D. Comas

Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) performed in Western Mediterranean populations has shown that both shores share a common set of mtDNA haplogroups already found in Europe and the Middle East. Principal co-ordinates of genetic distances and principal components analyses based on the haplotype frequencies show that the main genetic difference is attributed to the higher frequency of sub-Saharan L haplogroups in NW Africa, showing some gene flow across the Sahara desert, with a major impact in the southern populations of NW Africa.

Each of the subregions analysed (NW Africa and SW Europe) shows sequences that originated on the opposite shore of the Mediterranean. This is particularly clear in the case of U6 and L in SW Europe. L sequences are found at frequencies 3% in Iberia and 2.4% in Italy. Given the relatively high frequencies of L sequences in NW Africa, it is not clear whether they were contributed by the historical populations movements from the south to the north of the Mediterranean (such as the Moslem invasions of the 7th-11th centuries), or whether its presence is associated with other processes not directly linked to NW Africa.

Three Italian L sequences have been described throughout Africa, and the remaining five are not found in >1,000 sub-Saharan individuals. Thus, the presence of L sequences cannot be attributed to migration from NW Africa, and may instead represent gene flow from other sources, such as the Neolithic expansion or the Roman slave trade.

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American Journal of Human Genetics., 68:537-542, 2001

According to a study conducted by Lluís Quintana-Murci et. al.. and published in The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 68, 2001, pages 537-542, the Middle Easter Haplogproup HG9 runs at 20% in Italy.
Y-Chromosome Lineages Trace Diffusion of People and Languages in Southwestern Asia

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Lluís Quintana-Murci,1 Csilla Krausz,1 Tatiana Zerjal,2 S. Hamid Sayar,3 Michael F. Hammer,4 S. Qasim Mehdi,5 Qasim Ayub,5 Raheel Qamar,5 Aisha Mohyuddin,5 Uppala Radhakrishna,6 Mark A. Jobling,7 Chris Tyler-Smith,2 and Ken McElreavey1
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HG 9, defined by the 12f2 deletion, is largely confined to caucasoid populations, with its highest frequencies being found in Middle Eastern populations.

In Iranian populations, HG 9 shows very high frequencies (30%60%). Populations from the southeastern Caspian region and the Zagros Mountains exhibit the highest frequencies so far observed (60%). High frequencies of HG 9 have been found throughout the Fertile Crescent region (Hammer et al. 2000): Palestinians, 51%; Lebanese, 46%; and Syrians, 57%. The incidences of HG 9 in Pakistan (18%) and northern India (19%) indicate a decreasing-frequency cline from Iran toward India.

Table 1
Frequency Distribution of HG 9 and HG 3 in Human Populations from Different Regions

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REGION* NFREQUENCY(%)**          SOURCE                        HG9HG3 Iran:***     Azarbaijan833417Present study     Zagros Mountains34596Present study     Western Caspian32533Present study     Eastern Caspian255620Present study     Tehran region503014Present study     Central-north79399Present study     Central-south723817Present study     Eastern provinces263531Present study Pakistan7081832Present study India:     Gujurat581926Present study     Jaunpur152NT20Zerjal et al. (1999)     Indians mixed72NT15Hammer et al. (1998)     Uttar Pradesh627NTSemino et al. (1996) Sri Lanka83NT15Hammer et al. (1998) Middle East:     Lebanon24464Hammer et al. (2000)     Syria91579Hammer et al. (2000)     Palestine73510Hammer et al. (2000) Europe:     Turkey167335Rosser et al. (2000)     Russia122447Rosser et al. (2000)     Ukraine27030Rosser et al. (2000)     Latvia34041Rosser et al. (2000)     Poland112454Rosser et al. (2000)     Greece36288Rosser et al. (2000)     Italy99202Rosser et al. (2000)     Spain12632Rosser et al. (2000) Africa:     Algeria27410Rosser et al. (2000)     Sub-Saharan Africa19910Hammer et al. (2000)

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What exactly do the numbers mean...I'm looking at Europe in particular...

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The first source your quoted is fail on Italy and Iberia because they think that bomb places are each made up a single ethnicity.

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From the first:

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Each of the subregions analysed (NW Africa and SW Europe) shows sequences that originated on the opposite shore of the Mediterranean. This is particularly clear in the case of U6 and L in SW Europe. L sequences are found at frequencies 3% in Iberia and 2.4% in Italy. Given the relatively high frequencies of L sequences in NW Africa, it is not clear whether they were contributed by the historical populations movements from the south to the north of the Mediterranean (such as the Moslem invasions of the 7th-11th centuries), or whether its presence is associated with other processes not directly linked to NW Africa.

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Much of Italy is mixed.
Not saying Italy is nonWhite - but, particularly the south, there is a lot of nonWhite genes.

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What exactly do the numbers mean...I'm looking at Europe in particular...

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Anyway...I've been trying to figure out the chart...what are the other numbers besides H9? What do they mean?

How does H9 correspond to whiteness or is H9 some kind of "arab" gene?

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Heath Ledger is my Anti-Drug.
Te qifsha kurve, fila mou to kolo.