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SUBMITTER: Juras A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5339713 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Juras Anna A Krzewińska Maja M Nikitin Alexey G AG Ehler Edvard E Ehler Edvard E Chyleński Maciej M Łukasik Sylwia S Krenz-Niedbała Marta M Sinika Vitaly V Piontek Janusz J Ivanova Svetlana S Dabert Miroslawa M Götherström Anders A
Scientific reports 20170307
Scythians were nomadic and semi-nomadic people that ruled the Eurasian steppe during much of the first millennium BCE. While having been extensively studied by archaeology, very little is known about their genetic identity. To fill this gap, we analyzed ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Scythians of the North Pontic Region (NPR) and successfully retrieved 19 whole mtDNA genomes. We have identified three potential mtDNA lineage ancestries of the NPR Scythians tracing back to hunter-gatherer ...[more]