East Eurasian ancestry in the middle of Europe: genetic footprints of Steppe nomads in the genomes of Belarusian Lipka Tatars.

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East Eurasian ancestry in the middle of Europe: genetic footprints of Steppe nomads in the genomes of Belarusian Lipka Tatars.

Scientific reports - 25 Jul 2016

Pankratov Vasili, Litvinov Sergei, Kassian Alexei, Shulhin Dzmitry, Tchebotarev Lieve, Yunusbayev Bayazit, Möls Märt, Sahakyan Hovhannes, Yepiskoposyan Levon, Rootsi Siiri, Metspalu Ene, Golubenko Maria, Ekomasova Natalia, Akhatova Farida, Khusnutdinova Elza, Heyer Evelyne, Endicott Phillip, Derenko Miroslava, Malyarchuk Boris, Metspalu Mait, Davydenko Oleg, Villems Richard, Kushniarevich Alena

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Medieval era encounters of nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe and largely sedentary East Europeans had a variety of demographic and cultural consequences. Amongst these outcomes was the emergence of the Lipka Tatars-a Slavic-speaking Sunni-Muslim minority residing in modern Belarus, Lithuania and Poland, whose ancestors arrived in these territories via several migration waves, mainly from the Golden Horde. Our...

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