The origins of the Yakut people: evidence from mitochondrial DNA diversity

• Main Authors: Mark Zlojutro, Larissa A. Tarskaia, Mark Sorensen, J. Josh Snodgrass, William R. Leonard, Michael H. Crawford
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: mitochondrial DNA; RFLP analysis; nested cladistic analysis (NCA; Ewens; Yakut; Yakutia; Yakuts; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.404.6349; http://www.pinniped.net/Zlojutro2008.pdf

ABSTRACT The Yakuts are a Turkic-speaking population of northeastern Siberia and based on archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence are believed to have originated from Turkic populations in south Siberia. To investigate this model, the HVS-I of the mitochondrial DNA control region was sequenced f...