Structure and origin of Tuvan gene pool according to autosome SNP and Y-chromosome haplogroups

• Published in: Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding
• Main Authors: Stepanov, V.A., Kolesnikov, N.A., Valikhova, L.V., Zarubin, A.A., Khitrinskaya, I.Yu., Kharkov, V.N.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2023
• Subjects: Original Article; The ''Y''; Tuva; Evenks; Yakuts; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009474/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36923480; https://doi.org/10.18699/VJGB-23-06

Tuvans are one of the most compactly living peoples of Southern Siberia, settled mainly in the territory of Tuva. The gene pool of the Tuvans is quite isolated, due to endogamy and a very low frequency of interethnic marriages. The structure of the gene pool of the Tuvans and other Siberian populati...