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According to a study in 2011, Napoleon Bonaparte, and therefore all the Bonaparte ( males only ), belonged to haplogroup E1b1b1c1 * ( E-M34 *).

This haplogroup, rare in Europe, has its highest concentration in Ethiopia and in the Near East ( Jordan, Yemen ).

According to the authors of the study, " Probably Napoléon also knew his remote oriental patrilineal origins, because Francesco Buonaparte ( the Giovanni son ), who was a mercenary under the orders of the Genoa Republic in Ajaccio in 1490, was nicknamed The Maure of Sarzane ".