@article {308398,
	title = {Reconstructing Genetic History of Siberian and Northeastern European Populations},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {<p><span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-family: {\textquoteright}Lucida Sans{\textquoteright}, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 27.28px;">Siberia and Western Russia are home to over 40 culturally and linguistically diverse indigenous ethnic groups. Yet, genetic variation of peoples from this region is largely uncharacterized. We present whole-genome sequencing data from 28 individuals belonging to 14 distinct indigenous populations from that region. We combine these datasets with additional 32 modern-day and 15 ancient human genomes to build and compare autosomal, Y-DNA and mtDNA trees. Our results provide new links between modern and ancient inhabitants of Eurasia. Siberians share 38\% of ancestry with descendants of the 45,000-year-old Ust-Ishim people, who were previously believed to have no modern-day descendants. Western Siberians trace 57\% of their ancestry to the Ancient North Eurasians, represented by the 24,000-year-old Siberian Malta boy. In addition, Siberians admixtures are present in lineages represented by Eastern European hunter-gatherers from Samara, Karelia, Hungary and Sweden (from 8,000-6,600 years ago), as well as Yamnaya culture people (5,300-4,700 years ago) and modern-day northeastern Europeans. These results provide new evidence of ancient gene flow from Siberia into Europe.</span></p>
},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/029421},
	url = {http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/10/20/029421},
	author = {Wong, E. and Khrunin, A. and Nichols, L. and Pushkarev, D. and Kokhrin, D. and Verbenko, D. and Evgrafov, O. and Knowles, J. and Novembre, J. and Limborska, S. and Valouev, A.}
}
