Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe
Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Kerttu Majander, Choongwon Jeong, Elina Salmela, Anna Wessman, Vyacheslav G. Moiseyev, Valeri I. Khartanovich, Oleg Pavlovich Balanovsky, Matthias Ongyerth, Antje Weihmann, Antti Sajantila, Janet F. Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Päivi Onkamo, Wolfgang Haak, , Stephan Schiffels
The paper analyzes ancient genomes from Finland and Northwest Russia to show Siberian ancestry in northern Europe dates back 3,500 years and influenced modern Uralic-speaking populations.
Nature Communications · Nov 21, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics