Nature Communications (Nov 2018)
Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe
- Thiseas C. Lamnidis,
- Kerttu Majander,
- Choongwon Jeong,
- Elina Salmela,
- Anna Wessman,
- Vyacheslav Moiseyev,
- Valery Khartanovich,
- Oleg Balanovsky,
- Matthias Ongyerth,
- Antje Weihmann,
- Antti Sajantila,
- Janet Kelso,
- Svante Pääbo,
- Päivi Onkamo,
- Wolfgang Haak,
- Johannes Krause,
- Stephan Schiffels
Affiliations
- Thiseas C. Lamnidis
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Kerttu Majander
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Choongwon Jeong
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Elina Salmela
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Anna Wessman
- Department of Cultures, Archaeology, University of Helsinki
- Vyacheslav Moiseyev
- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, University Embankment
- Valery Khartanovich
- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, University Embankment
- Oleg Balanovsky
- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics
- Matthias Ongyerth
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Antje Weihmann
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Antti Sajantila
- Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki
- Janet Kelso
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Svante Pääbo
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Päivi Onkamo
- Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki
- Wolfgang Haak
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Johannes Krause
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Stephan Schiffels
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07483-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Populations from North-eastern Europe, in particular those speaking Uralic languages, carry additional ancestry in similarity with modern East Asian populations. Here, the authors analyse ancient genomic data from 11 individuals from Finland and Northwest Russia, and identify genomic signals of migrations from Siberia that began at least 3500 years ago.