The ancient Yakuts: a population genetic enigma

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Keyser, Christine, Hollard, Clémence, Gonzalez, Angela, Fausser, Jean-Luc, Rivals, Eric, Alexeev, Anatoly Nikolayevich, Riberon, Alexandre, Crubézy, Eric, Ludes, Bertrand
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2015
• Subjects: Part I: Ancient Human Populations; The ''Y''; Verkhoyansk; Yakutia; Yakuts
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4275892/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25487336; https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0385

This study is part of an ongoing project aiming at determining the ethnogenesis of an eastern Siberian ethnic group, the Yakuts, on the basis of archaeological excavations carried out over a period of 10 years in three regions of Yakutia: Central Yakutia, the Vilyuy River basin and the Verkhoyansk a...