Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The genetic origins of Uralic speakers from across a vast territory in the temperate zone of North Eurasia have remained elusive. Previous studies have shown contrasting proportions of Eastern and Western Eurasian ancestry in their mitochondrial and Y chromosomal gene pools. While the maternal lineages reflect by and large the geographic background of a given Uralic-speaking population, the frequency of Y chromosomes of Eastern Eurasian origin is distinctively high among European Uralic speakers. The autosomal variation of Uralic speakers, however, has not yet been studied comprehensively.

Results

Here, we present a genome-wide analysis of 15 Uralic-speaking populations which cover all main groups of the linguistic family. We show that contemporary Uralic speakers

SUBMITTER: Tambets K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6151024 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature