Population study of two Aromun populations from R. Macedonia

Ljudmila, Efremovska, Horst, Schmidt, Hans, Georg, Dobrivoje, Đorđević, Elizabeta, Dadić-Nikoloska

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Srbije

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1820-7936

https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%266083&page=0&so...

2008-2021/11/01/12:51:59

The present work presents the results of an examination of 5 systems of erytrocyte antigens in two Aromun samples from Republic of Macedonia. In this study we included two Aromun populations,one from the region of Štip and another from Kruševo.The first ones call themselves Gramostean; they are a rural population and their ancestors came from Greece. Contrary to this, the Aromuns from Kruševo (Moskopole) are urban population and probably their ancestors came from Moskopole (Albania). Our results have been compared with data for other studied populations from Macedonia (Macedonian and Albanian) and Balkan populations from literature. To display the relationships between populations, Neighbor joining trees using Reynolds genetic distance were depicted, and bootstrap analyses were done with 1000replications.The results suggest that the two Aromun populations (Aromun from Štip and Aromuns from Kruševo) show differences. The Aromun populations are placed on different positions of the tree. This big distance could mean that they do not have mixed with each other in the past. The reason is their structure and their descent. From a cultural point of view, grounded of their common language, the Aromuns from Štip and Kruševo are a unit, but not from a genetical point of view. This conclusion is based on a small count of genetical markers and analyses of more systems will bring a better conclusion. .