Article
Investigating the effects of prehistoric migrations in Siberia: genetic variation and the origins of Yakuts.
Human genetics - 1 Oct 2006
Pakendorf Brigitte, Novgorodov Innokentij N, Osakovskij Vladimir L, Danilova Al'bina P, Protod'jakonov Artur P, Stoneking Mark
Abstract excerpt
The Yakuts (also known as Sakha), Turkic-speaking cattle- and horse-breeders, inhabit a vast territory in Central and northeastern Siberia. On the basis of the archaeological, ethnographic and linguistic evidence, they are assumed to have migrated north from their original area of settlement in the vicinity of Lake Baykal in South Siberia under the pressure of the Mongol expansion during the thirteenth to...
Topics
- Chromosomes, Human, Y
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Demography
- Emigration and Immigration
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Language
- Male
- Phylogeny