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Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe

Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Kerttu Majander, Choongwon Jeong, View ORCID ProfileElina Salmela, Anna Wessman, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Valery Khartanovich, Oleg Balanovsky, Matthias Ongyerth, Antje Weihmann, Antti Sajantila, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Päivi Onkamo, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause, Stephan Schiffels
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/285437
Thiseas C. Lamnidis
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
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  • For correspondence: lamnidis@shh.mpg.de
Kerttu Majander
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
2Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo-and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
4Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Choongwon Jeong
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
3The Eurasia3angle Project, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
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Elina Salmela
4Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
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Anna Wessman
5Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Vyacheslav Moiseyev
6Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab. 3, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Valery Khartanovich
6Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab. 3, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Oleg Balanovsky
7Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia
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Matthias Ongyerth
8Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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Antje Weihmann
8Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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Antti Sajantila
9Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Janet Kelso
8Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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Svante Pääbo
8Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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Päivi Onkamo
10Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
4Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Wolfgang Haak
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
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Johannes Krause
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
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Stephan Schiffels
1Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
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Abstract

European history has been shaped by migrations of people, and their subsequent admixture. Recently, evidence from ancient DNA has brought new insights into migration events that could be linked to the advent of agriculture, and possibly to the spread of Indo-European languages. However, little is known so far about the ancient population history of north-eastern Europe, in particular about populations speaking Uralic languages, such as Finns and Saami. Here we analyse ancient genomic data from 11 individuals from Finland and Northwest Russia. We show that the specific genetic makeup of northern Europe traces back to migrations from Siberia that began at least 3,500 years ago. This ancestry was subsequently admixed into many modern populations in the region, in particular populations speaking Uralic languages today. In addition, we show that ancestors of modern Saami inhabited a larger territory during the Iron Age than today, which adds to historical and linguistic evidence for the population history of Finland.

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Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe
Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Kerttu Majander, Choongwon Jeong, Elina Salmela, Anna Wessman, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Valery Khartanovich, Oleg Balanovsky, Matthias Ongyerth, Antje Weihmann, Antti Sajantila, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Päivi Onkamo, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause, Stephan Schiffels
bioRxiv 285437; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/285437
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Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe
Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Kerttu Majander, Choongwon Jeong, Elina Salmela, Anna Wessman, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Valery Khartanovich, Oleg Balanovsky, Matthias Ongyerth, Antje Weihmann, Antti Sajantila, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Päivi Onkamo, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause, Stephan Schiffels
bioRxiv 285437; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/285437

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