Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations.

Kristiina TambetsBayazit YunusbayevGeorgi HudjashovAnne-Mai IlumäeSiiri RootsiTerhi HonkolaOuti VesakoskiQuentin AtkinsonPontus SkoglundAlena KushniarevichSergey LitvinovMaere ReidlaEne MetspaluLehti SaagTimo RantanenMonika KarminJüri ParikSergey I ZhadanovMarina GubinaLarisa D DambaMarina BermishevaTuuli ReisbergKhadizhat DibirovaIrina EvseevaMari NelisJanis KlovinsAndres MetspaluTõnu EskoOleg BalanovskyElena BalanovskaElza K KhusnutdinovaLudmila P OsipovaMikhail VoevodaRichard VillemsToomas KivisildMait Metspalu

Published in: Genome biology (2018)

We show that most Uralic speakers share a distinct ancestry component of likely Siberian origin, which suggests that the spread of Uralic languages involved at least some demic component.

Keyphrases

genome wide
dna methylation
single cell
bioinformatics analysis
gene expression
transcription factor
genome wide analysis