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Between Lake Baikal And The Baltic Sea: Genomic History Of The Gateway To Europe, Petr Triska, Nikolay Chekanov, Vadim Stepanov, Edward J. Vajda, Elza K. Khusnutdinova, Ganesh Prasad Arun Kumar, Belyaev Conference, 2017
Between Lake Baikal And The Baltic Sea: Genomic History Of The Gateway To Europe, Petr Triska, Nikolay Chekanov, Vadim Stepanov, Edward J. Vajda, Elza K. Khusnutdinova, Ganesh Prasad Arun Kumar, Belyaev Conference, 2017
Modern & Classical Languages
Background: The history of human populations occupying the plains and mountain ridges separating Europe from Asia has been eventful, as these natural obstacles were crossed westward by multiple waves of Turkic and Uralic speaking migrants as well as eastward by Europeans. Unfortunately, the material records of history of this region are not dense enough to reconstruct details of population history. These considerations stimulate growing interest to obtain a genetic picture of the demographic history of migrations and admixture in Northern Eurasia.
Results: We genotyped and analyzed 1076 individuals from 30 populations with geographical coverage spanning from Baltic Sea to Baikal …