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New 23andMe Italian Genetic Groups for Italian American Heritage Day

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Next time you mangi i fusilli bucati, note the similarities between the chewy, spiral noodles and a DNA double helix. Visualize each noodle as a piece of your DNA that links you to your ancestors: this noodle comes from Nonna Elisabetta, and she got it from her Nonna, Vittoria. This noodle comes from great-grandpa Giuseppe. That one from Celestina. You realize Celestina had curly hair like you, not unlike the fusilli bucati you’re savoring.

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And perhaps you, like fusilli, trace your roots to southern Italy.

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Now, for Italian American Heritage day, October 12th, 2023, 23andMe is introducing 59 new Italian Genetic Groups, to help customers who tested on the latest genotyping chip learn even more about their fusilli, er…rather, their Italian genetic ancestry.

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Before we dive into that, a little history. Following the unification of Italy in 1861, southern Italians experienced worsening economic conditions due to policies that heavily favored the industrialized north at the expense of the more agricultural south, in addition to other factors such as soil exhaustion. As a result, between 1880 and the First World War, over four million Italians — most from the southern Italian provinces of Campania, Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, and Sicily — immigrated to the United States.

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While many Italians eventually returned home, more remained in the United States and were later joined by other family members — or started families of their own, leaving a lasting imprint on America’s genetic tapestry. Today, over 16 million people in the United States report Italian ancestry, making it the fifth-most reported ancestry behind German, English, Irish and “American.”

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\"\" — *23andMe Italian genetic ancestry around the world*

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Italian Genetic Ancestry at 23andMe

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23andMe’s 59 new Italian Genetic Groups reflect the regional differences within the country, with a rich tapestry of dialects, food and culture. Many 23andMe customers who tested on the latest genotyping chip and have Italian ancestry can explore where their DNA traces to in Italy. Over 95% of customers with more than 50% Italian ancestry will receive a match to one or more of these Genetic Groups, and over 63% of customers with more than 5% of Italian ancestry will receive a match.

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\"A — *A map showing the locations of the 59 new Italian Genetic Groups*

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Below are the lists of Genetic Groups 23andMe has added as part of this update (most common matches are in bold)

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Northern Italy

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Central Ligurian Apennines and Western Emilia-Romagna
Marche and the Central Adriatic Coast
Western Arno Basin and Magra Valley
Adige River Basin
Central Arno Basin
Western Gulf of Genoa and the Monregalese
Western Po Valley
Central Lombardian Prealps
Central Po Valley
Northern Po Valley
Northwestern Po Valley
Southeastern Po Valley
Dolomites Region
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Garda Mountains
Modena and Reggio Emilia
Northeastern Venetian Plain
Northwestern Venetian Plain
Southern Venetian Plain
The Valtellina
Western Great Pre-Alpine Lakes
Corsica and Southern France

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Southern Italy

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La Sila
Latin Valley
Molise
Sangro River Valley
Eastern Bari
Lucanian Apennines
Salento Peninsula
Southern Gulf of Naples
Northern Gulf of Naples
Isthmus of Catanzaro
Irpinia Region
Campanian Valley
Southern Calabrian Apennines
Calabrian Serre
Foggia
Vibo Valentia Peninsula and Gioia Tauro Valley
Volturno Valley and the Matese
Pescara and Vomano Valleys
L’Aquila
Western Bari

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Sicily

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Gulfs of Palermo and Castellammare
Gulf of Termini Imerese
Malta and South Central Sicily
Central Sicily
Eastern Messina
Platani Basin
Southern Trapani
Northern Trapani
Western Messina and the Aeolian Islands
Mount Etna and the Simeto Basin
Eleuterio Basin
Ragusa Hyblaean Plateau
Syracuse Hyblaean Plateau
Sciacca Verdura Basin

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Sardinia

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Northeastern Sardinian Highlands
Campidano Plain and Gennargentu Mountains
Coghinas, Mannu, and Temo Basins

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More on the update

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About 4 percent of customers who’ve tested on the latest genotyping chip receive a match to one or more Genetic Groups in Southern Italy, 2.4 percent receive a match to one or more groups in Sicily, 1.4 percent to one or more groups in northern Italy, and less than 1% to groups in Sardinia.

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Many customers with Italian ancestry may already have a Country Match to Italy, as well as subregion insights.

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The top 5 Italian administrative subregions among 23andMe customers

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Sicily – 4 million customers share DNA with people who report recent ancestry from Sicily
Campania – 3 million customers share DNA with people who report recent ancestry from Campania
Calabria – 2.5 million customers share DNA with people who report recent ancestry from Calabria
Apulia – 1.9 million customers share DNA with people who report recent ancestry from Apulia
Abruzzo – 1.7 million customers share DNA with people who report recent ancestry from Abruzzo

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Ancestry Composition update

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23andMe’s Ancestry Composition report is a living analysis that improves as we add new reference data. Underlying our Ancestry reports are powerful algorithms and analytical tools developed by 23andMe population geneticists and engineers to offer our customers more insights into their ancestral origins.

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Over the last few years, we’ve updated results to allow our customers to see more detail about their connections to specific geographic regions that also correspond to cultural and linguistic regions.

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Find out more

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23andMe customers can see their Ancestry Composition.

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Not yet a customer? Find out more about 23andMe’s Ancestry Service and other services.

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Parting thoughts

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We leave you with a taste of Italy — Learn how to fare una bella figura

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Ever wonder what the secret is to an elderly Italian gentleman’s impeccable outfit — like a perfectly draped scarf? Or why an Italian chef can make a few simple ingredients (fresh basil, mozzarella, and ripe tomato) taste so delicious? Fare una bella figura translates to “to make a beautiful impression,” and captures the essence of how Italians aspire to bring aesthetic beauty to everything they do and make.

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Happy Italian American Heritage Day!

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Total strangers, John and Rhonda have one thing in common, the same father. $\"J$R$ \n

\nThe two made that discovery earlier this year after using 23andMe.\n

\n“Nobody knew about John,” said Rhonda, a 55 year-old marketer in Buffalo New York.\n

\nFor John, recently retired and 67 who also lives in the Buffalo area, DNA testing was the only way he would have ever found Rhonda and information about his biological father. For both of them the test helped lead them to clues about their father and a tangled history of multiple families and an ongoing search for siblings spread out through generations and geography.

“I now have a printed family tree that takes three trees to show and is so long, it covers the top of two long tables,” said John. “(Testing has) been a positive experience for me and a healing experience for the family. I’ve been welcomed with open arms.”\n

\nBeing orphaned, along with his half brother, from his single mom when he was just 10 had been so traumatic for John, that he blanked out all the memory of his childhood. He couldn’t even remember his mother’s face until a few years ago when he saw a photo of her for the first time. That had been out of sheer luck, after a mutual acquaintance connected him to his cousin and elderly aunt. John believes it may have been more than luck with a little help from his mother, watching from above.

It was his aunt and cousins who had the photo and tidbits about his mother. John and his family enjoyed a series of reunions in the US and in Italy over the past 5 years. His aunt also shared with John the one bit of information she had about his biological father, his father’s first name.

$\"John$

John Vitale

“There is no way I could have identified the family on my father’s side,” he said. “All I had to go on was his name was Marvin, and I only learned that a couple of years ago.”\n

\nBut for both John and Rhonda using 23andMe to explore their ancestry changed not just what they knew about their families and their background, but their understanding about themselves.

John had thought he was Italian, but was “shocked” to learn he was half Ashkenazi Jew on his father’s side.\n

\n“I knew nothing about my father, I assumed he was Italian,” said John. “My mother’s family is Italian with roots in Sicily and Milan. I was raised Catholic.”

Learning about his Jewish ancestry, didn’t change his beliefs, but it did change his perceptions.\n

\n“It has made me more sensitive and curious of the Jewish faith,” he said.\n

\nFor Rhonda, who was raised by a Jewish mother, learning about about her biological mother’s Catholic background put certain things about herself in context. It also raised a lot of “nature versus nurture issues” for her.\n

\n“I grew up as an only child, in a family that I was very different from,” she said. “I look nothing like, or act nothing like, my adopted mother or father.”\n

\nAnd then there was the connection she made using 23andMe to her biological family for the first time – not just to John, but also to a full sister named Trisha.

That connection with her sister was so strong that Rhonda wonders if there’s a chance that they might actually be twins separated and adopted out to different families.\n

\n“When I met Trisha, it felt like I was talking to myself,” Rhonda said. “The similarities were astounding.”\n

\n23andMe also helped Rhonda connect with her oldest living half-sibling, who is unrelated to John. She was one of the 2 children born to her mother when her mother was in an internment camp in Germany. It was that woman, Danuta, who gave Rhonda much of what she knows about her mother, including her mother’s history with Marvin and the other children she bore him.

$\"Rhonda$

Rhonda Ried

All of Rhonda’s full siblings were adopted by other families, she said. At least two of whom she’s connected with through 23andMe. Rhonda discovered she has 5 full siblings and 6 half siblings, including John. And there could be more, she said.

Now both Rhonda and John are hoping that they will be able to connect with other siblings. They are aware of two sisters in Arizona.\n

\n“We are becoming acquainted with members of the family living around the country,” John said.\n

\nThey have scheduled a virtual family reunion on Skype in a few weeks, but their search continues.\n

\n“I fully expect we’ll find others,” said John. “We’ll just keep looking.”

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Daniella had always pestered her father about details of their ancestry, but apart from a few bits and pieces he never gave her a clear picture of their family background. $\"Daniella\"$

When he began his battle with terminal cancer, Daniella decided that it was time to learn more about their ancestry together using 23andMe.

Both Daniella, a co-host of a local TV show in Brooklyn, NY, and her father had always shared a love of science. Testing allowed them to bond over the science of DNA. It also allowed Daniella to learn more about her family.

What she knew about her family only went back two or three generations and that most of that information was hazy at best.

“I had been asking my Dad to write down what he knew of our family tree. The names he knew. The stories he knew. This foray into 23andMe was intended to supplement that and wake us all up to how connected we are to people we did not know and places we did not know and makes us all feel deeply that we are all woven into the human tapestry.”

Daniella saw 23andMe offered as a way to make her father feel that connection, so she shared her own results with him.

As a chemical engineer, the science behind genetic testing piqued her father’s interest. His 23andMe results came in just as the Christmas
\nholidays were beginning.

“We are really good at being a family. I knew that we would all be getting together looking at some old Kodak slides. I just thought that 23andMe would just be another way for us to feel connected, for him to feel connected. It was pretty powerful.”

They went through the results together. Of course, they found his Italian heritage, which they knew, but there was a Middle Eastern line that ran through his DNA as well. They linked their accounts and compared their DNA. It was obvious what came from her Mom and where she aligned with her Dad.

“We always connected through science. Both of us loved new technology, the latest innovations and discoveries,” Daniella said. “It was a real intellectual connection and with 23andMe here was something we could really discuss and see how it would enlighten us.”

Going through their ancestral results prompted Daniella’s father to talk in detail about his childhood and family ancestors. The process had the desired effect – he could see himself in the bigger picture not just a man fighting cancer.

Even after the holidays as he would remember something more he would send her an email. One of his last correspondences included another treasured piece of family history shared – his great grandmother’s last name.

“The timing of getting the results was impeccable. I wanted to make him feel part of a really big family. And it worked. My mom said “You had a very special connection and this allowed you to find your own closure.”

Results not typical. Results vary due to unique differences in each individual’s DNA. On average, users receive at least one or two results that may help with proactively managing health. 23andMe’s services are not a substitute for professional medical or diagnostic advice.
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