Atlantic Islander ǀ Iberian
The Spanish – Canary Islands population data represent DNA samples from 138 Canarian individuals (Canarian people) who descended from at least three generations of Canarii people born on the Island of Gran Canaria (one of the Canary Islands). The group of seven islands off the Atlantic coast of West Africa have long been part of the Kingdom of Spain (Canary Islands). Samples were obtained by the Dept. of Legal Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cadiz in Cadiz, Spain; and by the Institute of Legal Medicine of Coimbra, in Portugal.
The Spanish – Canary Islands population data represent DNA samples from 240 Canarian individuals (Canarian people). The group of seven islands off the Atlantic coast of West Africa have long been part of the Kingdom of Spain (Canary Islands). Samples were obtained by the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Canary Islands Delegation, Campus of Health Sciences, (Instituto Nacional de Toxicología y Ciencias Forenses, Delegaciòn de Canarias, Campus de Ciencias de la Salud), in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain, on the island of Tenerife. Research was partly funded by a grant from the Canary Islands’ Advisor of Education and Culture, General Director of Universities and Investigation.(Consejeria de Educacion y Cultura [DGUI], Gobierno de Canarias).
From www.amazighworld.org
“The name of Canaria, Canarii comes deep from the history of the African continent and it has been used for ages to refer an ancient people who inhabited the Sahara, the Canarii or the Kanurie, part of which was transferred to our Canary Islands over two thousand five hundred [2,500] years ago, and that, together with other populations brought by the Carthaginians from Tunisia and other human groups already living in the islands, represent the Canary People…”
For more details on this population, see Islands;
Lexiline; and
Canarians History and Cultural Relations.
From Canary islands
“The name of Canaria, Canarii comes deep from the history of the African continent and it has been used for ages to refer an ancient people who inhabited the Sahara, the Canarii or the Kanurie, part of which was transferred to our Canary Islands over two thousand five hundred [2,500] years ago, and that, together with other populations brought by the Carthaginians from Tunisia and other human groups already living in the islands, represent the Canary People…”
For more details on this population, see www.ctspanish.com;
www.lexiline.com; and
Canarians History and Cultural Relations.
Source publications: A Study On Ten Short Tandem Repeat Systems: African Immigration And Spanish Population Data, FSI, 2000, p167-177. Allele frequencies of the Profiler Plus STR loci in Canary Islands (Spain)/ Allele frequencies of the Profiler Plus STR loci in Canary Islands (Spain), Progress in Forensic Genetics 9, 2003, p95-103.
[Population 104, 163]
