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East Eurasian ancestry in the middle of Europe: Genetic footprints of Steppe nomads in the genomes of Belarusian Lipka Tatars

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dc.contributor.author Pankratov V.
dc.contributor.author Litvinov S.
dc.contributor.author Kassian A.
dc.contributor.author Shulhin D.
dc.contributor.author Tchebotarev L.
dc.contributor.author Yunusbayev B.
dc.contributor.author Möls M.
dc.contributor.author Sahakyan H.
dc.contributor.author Yepiskoposyan L.
dc.contributor.author Rootsi S.
dc.contributor.author Metspalu E.
dc.contributor.author Golubenko M.
dc.contributor.author Ekomasova N.
dc.contributor.author Akhatova F.
dc.contributor.author Khusnutdinova E.
dc.contributor.author Heyer E.
dc.contributor.author Endicott P.
dc.contributor.author Derenko M.
dc.contributor.author Malyarchuk B.
dc.contributor.author Metspalu M.
dc.contributor.author Davydenko O.
dc.contributor.author Villems R.
dc.contributor.author Kushniarevich A.
dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-19T22:47:42Z
dc.date.available 2018-09-19T22:47:42Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/145521
dc.description.abstract 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 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 and autosomal DNA 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.
dc.title East Eurasian ancestry in the middle of Europe: Genetic footprints of Steppe nomads in the genomes of Belarusian Lipka Tatars
dc.type Article
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 6
dc.collection Публикации сотрудников КФУ
dc.source.id SCOPUS-2016-6-SID84979497003


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    Коллекция содержит публикации сотрудников Казанского федерального (до 2010 года Казанского государственного) университета, проиндексированные в БД Scopus, начиная с 1970г.

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