Project description:Medieval era encounters of nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe and largely sedentary East Europeans had a variety of demographic and cultural consequences. Amongst these outcomes was the emergence of the Lipka Tatars - a Slavic-speaking Sunni-Muslim ethno-religious minority residing in modern Belarus, Lithuania and Poland, whose ancestors arrived in these territories via several migration waves, mainly from the Golden Horde. Our results show that Belarusian Lipka Tatars share a substantial part of their gene pool with Europeans as indicated by their Y-chromosomal, mitochondrial DNA and autosomal variation. Nevertheless, Belarusian Lipkas still retain a strong genetic signal of their nomadic ancestry, witnessed by the presence of common Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA variants as well as autosomal segments identical by descent between Lipkas and East Eurasians from temperate and northern regions. Hence, we document Lipka Tatars as a unique example of former Medieval migrants into Central Europe, who became sedentary, changed language to Slavic, yet preserved their faith and retained, both uni- and bi-parentally, a clear genetic echo of a complex population interplay throughout the Eurasian Steppe Belt, extending from Central Europe to northern China.
Project description:The data set contains MS/MS data on teeth extracts for Ancient DNA teeth samples ran in both positive and Negative ionization modes
Project description:Ancient DNA reveals two paternal lineages C2b1a1b1a/F3830 and C2c1b/F845 in the old nomadic people distributed on the Mongolian Plateau
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of CD4 T cells from uninfected and HIV-infected individuals (viremic, ART-suppressed and elite controllers [EC]) The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation Beadchip v1.2 was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 485,577 CpGs in DNA from peripheral CD4 T cells samples. Samples included: 22 from HIV-uninfected individuals (uninfected group), 42 from HIV-infected individuals (21 from HIV-infected viremic (viremic group) and 21 from the same participants after viral suppression (viral load< 50 copies HIV-1 RNA/plasma) by antiretroviral therapy administrarion (ART group), and 21 from elite controllers (EC group)