Human evolution in Siberia: from frozen bodies to ancient DNA |
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Authors: | Eric Crubézy Sylvain Amory Christine Keyser Caroline Bouakaze Martin Bodner Morgane Gibert Alexander Röck Walther Parson Anatoly Alexeev Bertrand Ludes |
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Affiliation: | 1.Laboratoire AMIS, FRE 2960 CNRS,Université de Toulouse,Toulouse,France;2.Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire, Institut de Médecine Légale,Université de Strasbourg,Strasbourg,France;3.Institute of Legal Medicine,Innsbruck Medical University,Innsbruck,Austria;4.Institute of Mathematics,University of Innsbruck,Innsbruck,Austria;5.Presidency of the University, Yakutsk University,Sakha Republic,Russia |
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Abstract: | Background The Yakuts contrast strikingly with other populations from Siberia due to their cattle- and horse-breeding economy as well as their Turkic language. On the basis of ethnological and linguistic criteria as well as population genetic studies, it has been assumed that they originated from South Siberian populations. However, many questions regarding the origins of this intriguing population still need to be clarified (e.g. the precise origin of paternal lineages and the admixture rate with indigenous populations). This study attempts to better understand the origins of the Yakuts by performing genetic analyses on 58 mummified frozen bodies dated from the 15th to the 19th century, excavated from Yakutia (Eastern Siberia). |
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