Anatolian Greeks don't cluster with Armenians.
Eastern Greeks(Aegean islands & Ionia) : 91,7% European
Eastern Greeks (Aegean islands & Ionia) (158 samples)
I included Ionian GREEKS with the rest of Greeks
Their Y-DNA allmost perfectly resembles that of Aegean Greeks with whom I have classified them under Eastern Greeks (GREEKS not Greece). It also resembles average or mainstream Greek Y-DNA.
in fact Ionian Greeks and those from the Aegean islands might be the purest of Greeks since Ionians definetely didn't mix with Turks (no Central or East Asian haplogroups detected) and Albanian or Slavic influence in Ionia is zero...allthough some native Anatolian ancestry can't be ruled out.
Finally Ionian and other Anatolian Greeks are currently living in Greece and constitute a large section of the population...
As I explained Ionians seem very mainstream Greeks like those from the Aegean...
Their ancestors who lived under Ottoman Empire had a native Greek language, were Christian Orthodox and allways thought of themselves as Greeks (which is now proven by genetics).
http://www.eupedia.com/forum/printth...4&pp=25&page=1
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