Genetic affinities of Ukrainians from the maternal perspective

• Published in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology
• Main Authors: Pshenichnov, Andrey, Balanovsky, Oleg, Utevska, Olga, Metspalu, Ene, Zaporozhchenko, Valery, Agdzhoyan, Anastasia, Churnosov, Mikhail, Atramentova, Lyubov, Balanovska, Elena
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Cornish; nenets; saami
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22371; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fajpa.22371; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajpa.22371

ABSTRACT The area of what is now the Ukraine has been the arena of large‐scale demographic processes that may have left their traces in the contemporary gene pool of Ukrainians. In this study, we present new mitochondrial DNA data for 607 Ukrainians (hypervariable segment I sequences and coding regi...