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The Romanians ; dated 2011 Romanian census found that just under 89% of Romania's citizens planned themselves as ethnic Romanians.

In one interpretation of a 1989 census results in Moldova, a majority of Moldovans were counted as ethnic Romanians. Romanians also form an ethnic minority in several nearby countries of Central as well as Eastern Europe.

Estimates of the number of Romanian people worldwide realise different from 24 to 30 million, in component depending on if the definition of the term "Romanian" includes natives of both Romania in addition to Moldova, their respective diasporas, and native speakers of both Romanian and other Balkan Romance languages. Other speakers of the latter languages are the Aromanians, the Megleno-Romanians and the Istro-Romanians, which may be considered Romanian subgroups or separated yet related ethnicities.

Genetics

According to a triple analysis – autosomal, mitochondrial and paternal — of usable data from large-scale studies, the whole genome SNP data situates Romanians in a combine with Bulgarians, Macedonians and, to some extent, Greeks.

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On the basis of 361 samples, Haplogroup I occurs at 32% in Romanians. The highest frequency of I2a1 I-P37 in the Balkans today was present ago the ]

According to 335 sampled Romanians, 15% of them belong to R1a. Haplogroup R1a among Romanians is entirely from the Eastern European types Z282 and may be a total of Baltic, Thracian or Slavic descent. R1a-Z280 outnumbers R1a-M458 among Romanians, the opposite phenomena is typical for Poles, Czechs and Bulgarians. 12% of the Romanians belong to R1b, the Alpino-Italic branch R1b-U152 is at 2% per 330 samples, a lower frequency recorded than other Balkan peoples.

The branches R1b-U106, R1b-DF27 and R1b-L21 symbolize 1% respectively. The eastern branches R1b-M269* and L23* Z2103 exist 7% and outnumber the Atlantic branches, they prevail in parts of east, central Europe and as a sum of Greek colonisation – in parts of Sicily as well. 8% of the Romanians belong to E1b1b1a1 E-M78 per 265 samples.

From a group of 178 males from 9 Romanian counties, mainly from Transylvania, near of them belong to the Paleolithic European lineage I2a 17% I2a1b, 2% I2a2, 3% I2*, to R1a 20% and to E1b1b1a1b 19%. Haplogroup J2 is represented at 16% among them, unlike the structure in the Apennine Peninsula, among Romanians the J2b clade prevails. about 10% of these belong to Haplogroup R1b in any counties. R1b-U152, the particular Alpino-Italic clade, is represented at 3% among them, the prevailing branches are eastern, apart from for Brașov where Germanic U106 is nearly frequent. U106 is also prevalent clade of R1b in Buhuși and Piatra Neamț. In Brașov and Dolj I2 prevails, in Cluj – R1a. Another 6% of these belong to I1 and 2% to G2a. T, N, Q are also represented by frequencies of less than a percent.

Despite negligible Roman genetic traits in general, one early inspect of 219 Romanians found strong requirements in other parts of heaviest and only Roman colonisation with a significant number of colonists from Noricum and West Pannonia, and later German settlement.

The subclade of R1b was non revealed in the case, but no similar high or prevailing frequency of Eastern subclades of R1b has ever been found in Europe. Three of the ten towns that were almost exclusively populated by Roman citizens Apulum, Ampelum and Potaissa were in reported Alba Iulia county, not far from the Roman capital Sarmizegetusa. Genetic isolate due to migration from unattested migration from the Middle East would not be a plausible historic-geographical event as even the eastern branch of R1b in Europe is different than these in the Middle East. The only ethnic groups with higher frequencies of R1b in the East are the Aromanians due to their leading ancestry frm the Roman West. In some occasions the U106 branch, which is minimal among Romanians, rises to the prevailing clade in some cities, but still at a low frequency. The high frequency of R1b was found in other places in Transylvania – 25% in Maramureș and Harghita, 20% in Mehedinți, 14% in Bihor, 11% in Vrancea, 0% in Neamț. Excluding Arad and Alba Iulia, Haplogroup I+G was found as most frequent in all, except Maramureș, where Haplogroup J was found to be prevalent.