What do you think about this report that shows that Greeks have 28% Middle Eastern Genes?

well considering that website is a white supermacist neo nazi site,that report is utter garbage.

What do you think about this fact that 28% of people who have new profiles and place questions in the Greece/Turkey sections are trolling

What´s the point in that? I don`t care if they have midle eastern genes or asian, or african.. for me they`ll always be greeks... europeans. I`m portuguese

Middles East is a geopolitical term that hasn't any connection with a single race or ethnicity. Greeks among other Balkanians (including Fyromians) have a big percentage of genes that do not originate from Europe (using the modern geographical definition of Europe) but from Anatolia or Near East and belong to the Caucasian family. In places like Poland or Spain there is racial admixing on the population (Mongolid, Νegroid respectively), something that in Greece is lesser than 0.5%. The haplogroup that the site is referring to is the J. In Europe it can be found its subdivision, J2, which is not considered a non-Caucasian haplogroup and it is very common among the Balkans. Indicatively, it can be found in (roughly): Greece: 7-40% (Northern Greece to Southern) Albania: 27% Italy:1-20% (Northern Italy to Southern) Croatia: 9% Ukraine:8% FYROM: 7% Slovenia:6% Serbia: 6% Russia: 4% From wikipedia: Haplogroup J2 is widely believed to be associated with the spread of agriculture from Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Anatolia. The age of J2 has been estimated as 18,500 +/- 3,500 thousand years ago. Its distribution, centered in West Asia and Southeastern Europe, its association with the presence of Neolithic archaeological artifacts, such as figurines and painted pottery, and its association with annual precipitation have been interpreted as evidence that J2, and in particular its J2a-M410 subclade belonged to the agricultural innovators who followed the rainfall. Haplogroup J2 is found mainly in the northern Fertile Crescent, the Mediterranean (including Southern Europe and North Africa), the Iranian plateau and Central Asia. More specifically it is found in Greece, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, and more frequently in the Province of Kurdistan (28% of the population), Iraq (25% of the population), Saudi Arabia (18.9% of the northern and central-north region), in Lebanon (25% of the population), in Jordan, in Syria, in Israel, in Turkey, and in the southern Caucasus region. According to Semino et al and the National Geographic Genographic Project, the frequency of haplogroup J2 generally declines as one moves away from the Northern fertile crescent. Haplogroup J2 is carried by 6% of Europeans and its frequency drops dramatically as one moves northward away from the Mediterranean. Another important fact about the distribution of Haplogroup J2 is that it appears to have dispersed from a Middle Eastern homeland to the west through a primarily maritime or littoral route, as it is found in high concentrations among the populations of the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea in both Eurasia and Africa, and particularly along the coasts of the eastern Mediterranean in Europe. This distribution may be more consonant with a Neolithic or post-Neolithic maritime dispersal from the Middle East, such as through Greek colonization or even Phoenician commercial and colonial activities. In Italy, J2 is found in about 23% of southern Italians, and 17% of central-north Italians. Turkey is one of the countries with major J2 population. 24% of Turkish men are J2 according to a recent study, with regional frequencies ranging between 10% and 31%. Combined with J1, one third of the total population of Turkish people belongs to Haplogroup J. Haplogroup J2 is also common in neighboring Greece, with regional frequencies ranging between 11% and 46%. It has been proposed that haplogroup J2a-M410 was linked to populations on ancient Crete by examining the relationship between Anatolian, Cretan, and Greek populations from around early Neolithic sites. Haplogroup J2b-M12 was associated with Neolithic Greece (ca. 8500 - 4300 BCE) and was reported to be found in modern Crete (3.1%) and mainland Greece (Macedonia 7.0%, Thessaly 8.8%, Argolis 1.8%).

Greeks are 100% aliens from planet El. -____-

So what if they are?

And whats the point of the question exactly? Even if we do,what is YOUR problem? I would be glad if we had middle-Eastern genes btw Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestinian territories, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. So you can Middle east includes really wealthy countries (for me that means,clever enough to manage their goods) like United Arab Emirates and Qatar (GDP per capita 80.000$!!!!) , People who are clever enough to rule everything (Israel),etc... So I don't find it bad or insulting to have middle-Eastern Genes. I would find it insulting if I had similar genes with you.

Troll it baby!!! ;-P