RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Y-chromosome haplogroups from Hun, Avar and conquering Hungarian period nomadic people of the Carpathian Basin
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 597997
DO 10.1101/597997
A1 Endre Neparáczki
A1 Zoltán Maróti
A1 Tibor Kalmár
A1 Kitti Maár
A1 István Nagy
A1 Dóra Latinovics
A1 Ágnes Kustár
A1 György Pálfi
A1 Erika Molnár
A1 Antónia Marcsik
A1 Csilla Balogh
A1 Gábor Lőrinczy
A1 Szilárd Sándor Gál
A1 Péter Tomka
A1 Bernadett Kovacsóczy
A1 László Kovács
A1 István Raskó
A1 Tibor Török
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/04/03/597997.abstract
AB Hun, Avar and conquering Hungarian nomadic groups arrived into the Carpathian Basin from the Eurasian Steppes and significantly influenced its political and ethnical landscape. In order to shed light on the genetic affinity of above groups we have determined Y chromosomal haplogroups and autosomal loci, from 49 individuals, supposed to represent military leaders. Haplogroups from the Hun-age are consistent with Xiongnu ancestry of European Huns. Most of the Avar-age individuals carry east Eurasian Y haplogroups typical for modern north-eastern Siberian and Buryat populations and their autosomal loci indicate mostly unmixed Asian characteristics. In contrast the conquering Hungarians seem to be a recently assembled population incorporating pure European, Asian and admixed components. Their heterogeneous paternal and maternal lineages indicate similar phylogeographic origin of males and females, derived from Central-Inner Asian and European Pontic Steppe sources. Composition of conquering Hungarian paternal lineages is very similar to that of Baskhirs, supporting historical sources that report identity of the two groups.