TY - JOUR T1 - Y-chromosome haplogroups from Hun, Avar and conquering Hungarian period nomadic people of the Carpathian Basin JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/597997 SP - 597997 AU - Endre Neparáczki AU - Zoltán Maróti AU - Tibor Kalmár AU - Kitti Maár AU - István Nagy AU - Dóra Latinovics AU - Ágnes Kustár AU - György Pálfi AU - Erika Molnár AU - Antónia Marcsik AU - Csilla Balogh AU - Gábor Lőrinczy AU - Szilárd Sándor Gál AU - Péter Tomka AU - Bernadett Kovacsóczy AU - László Kovács AU - István Raskó AU - Tibor Török Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/04/03/597997.abstract N2 - 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. ER -