Dienekes has a great post related to my blog about demic diffusion. He notes that haplogroup J, which is a marker for “Neolithic expansion” into Europe from the Middle East has two clades, Eu9 and Eu10, and while the former is found among the peoples of the northern Middle East/Anatolia/Caucasus, the latter is found among the southern peoples of Arabia. While Europeans tend to have Eu9 (with decreasing frequency north and west), North Africans have Eu10. Dienekes also notes that Kurdish Muslims tend to carry Eu9 while Kurdish Jews are marked by Eu10. On an interesting note, Dienekes also finishes with the factoid that the people of Punjab tends to have Eu9, not Eu10. Go read the whole post.
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