Uniparental Genetic Heritage of Belarusians: Encounter of Rare Middle Eastern Matrilineages with a Central European Mitochondrial DNA Pool

Kushniarevich, Alena; N. Sivitskaya, L.; Г. Даниленко, Н.; A. Novogrodskii, Tadeush; S. Tsybovsky, Iosif; В. Киселева, А.; А. Котова, С.; Chaubey, Gyaneshwer; Metspalu, Ene; Sahakyan, Hovhannes; Bahmanimehr, Ardeshir; Reidla, Maere; Rootsi, Siiri; Parik, Jüri; Reisberg, Tuuli; Achilli, Alessandro; Hooshiar Kashani, Baharak; Gandini, Francesca; Olivieri, Anna; M. Behar, Doron; Torroni, Antonio; Г. Давыденко, О.; Villems, Richard

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066499

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Uniparental Genetic Heritage of Belarusians: Encounter of Rare Middle Eastern Matrilineages with a Central European Mitochondrial DNA Pool

Published in PLoS ONE • Jun 13, 2013

Authors:

Alena Kushniarevich

L. N. Sivitskaya

Н. Г. Даниленко

Abstract

Ethnic Belarusians make up more than 80% of the nine and half million people inhabiting the Republic of Belarus. Belarusians together with Ukrainians and Russians represent the East Slavic linguistic group, largest both in numbers and territory, inhabiting East Europe alongside Baltic-, Finno-Permic...

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Haplogroup

Gene pool

Mitochondrial DNA

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