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Letter: Editor's pick: Genetic legacies of rank and file

Published 15 April 2015

From The Editor writes

• Indeed, the majority of the Roman soldiers posted to Britain were not Italian, but recruited from Gaul and Germany: but the point remains that the Italian elite hardly left any genetic imprint.

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Issue no. 3017 published 18 April 2015

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