!The Amazighs are the closest people to the Castilian Spaniards
︎ Thus came the results of an interesting Spanish study published in July of last year... It was supervised by the Forensic Medicine Laboratory and the Department of Biodiversity at Complutense University in cooperation with the Spanish Genealogical Society... ︎ The purpose of this genetic study was to determine the haplotypes of holders of the royal title “Castilla” and to ascertain the extent of their genetic homogeneity... and to calculate external contributions to the region... The tests were conducted on a population group of 102 men, all of whom held the royal title “Castilla”... with the aim of analyzing chromosomes. Y to determine the parental lines...︎ This title has been the subject of intense discussion and controversy about its origins because the “Men of Castile” are considered part of the Spanish royal heritage... Assumptions vary about the origin... as some suggest that the holders of this title trace their origins back to King Pedro de Castilla, who ruled in the 14th century AD. While the second assumption suggests their lineage to Castile, one of the provinces of the Kingdom of Leon, which flourished in the period between the 9th and 11th centuries AD.︎ In general and in brief, the results can be presented in the form of the following axes:• 55 haplotypes were identified in the group under study, and 71% of them were distinct. This is a lower percentage than usual in the rest of the Spaniards, which indicates that this group is more homogeneous....
• Two main groups have been identified that have the lion’s share in these results, which are the West Aruba haplogroup R1b and the North African Amazigh haplogroup E-m81...
• It turns out that Castilian men have a high frequency of the E-m81 haplogroup compared to the rest of the Spanish population...
︎ As for the number of samples, out of 102 samples, they were graded as follows:Rank 1: Western Aruba R1b with 47 samples.
Rank 2: North Africa E-m81 with 14 samples.
Rank 3: 3 samples under the T-L131 mutation.
︎ While the rest of the samples were orphans due to their mutations, and others were scattered over a large number of mutations... you can find in the comments the results of the rest of the mutations.
︎ The results of this study confirm many previous studies, including those by Martin et al. 2004 and Flores et al. 2004, which was also cited here... and all of them show the close genetic link that brings together the Iberian population and the Amazigh population of North Africa in general... and the Moroccans who are closest to them in particular!Source: websites