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Searching for the origin of Gagauzes: inferences from Y-chromosome analysis.

American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council - 1 Jan 2000

Varzari Alexander, Kharkov Vladimir, Stephan Wolfgang, Dergachev Valentin, Puzyrev Valery, Weiss Elisabeth H, Stepanov Vadim

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The Gagauzes are a small Turkish-speaking ethnic group living mostly in southern Moldova and northeastern Bulgaria. The origin of the Gagauzes is obscure. They may be descendants of the Turkic nomadic tribes from the Eurasian steppes, as suggested by the "Steppe" hypothesis, or have a complex Anatolian-steppe origin, as postulated by the "Seljuk" or "Anatolian" hypothesis. To distinguish these hypotheses, a...

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PMID: 19107901
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20863

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