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Mitochondrial DNA of ancient Cumanians: culturally Asian steppe nomadic immigrants with substantially more western Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages.
Human biology - 1 Oct 2005
Bogácsi-Szabó Erika, Kalmár Tibor, Csányi Bernadett, Tömöry Gyöngyvér, Czibula Agnes, Priskin Katalin, Horváth Ferenc, Downes Christopher Stephen, Raskó István
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The Cumanians were originally Asian pastoral nomads who in the 13th century migrated to Hungary. We have examined mitochondrial DNA from members of the earliest Cumanian population in Hungary from two archeologically well-documented excavations and from 74 modern Hungarians from different rural locations in Hungary. Haplogroups were defined based on HVS I sequences and examinations of haplogroup-associated...
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