Differentiation of Slavs and their genetic position among Eurasian peoples from data on mitochondrial DNA diversity] |
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| Authors: | B A Maliarchuk |
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| Institution: | Institute of the Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, 685000 Russia. ibpn@online.magadan.su |
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| Abstract: | The distribution of identical and similar (phylogenetically related) types of hypervariable segment 1 (HVS1) of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was studied in human populations belonging to three Slavonic groups and nine ethnogeographic groups of Eurasia (total sample size 2772 people). The results testified to a common origin of West, South, and East Slavs and revealed a central place of West Slavs among all Slavonic ethnoses. Mixing was shown to play a substantial role in the formation of specific features of all three Slavonic gene pools. The mitochondrial gene pools of the Slavonic ethnoses proved to preserve features suggesting a common ancestor for these and South European populations (especially those of the Balkan Peninsula). |
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