Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Unterländer, Martina ^a   Palstra, Friso ^b   Lazaridis, Iosif ^c,d   Pilipenko, Aleksandr ^e,f,g   Hofmanová, Zuzana ^a   Groß, Melanie ^a   Sell, Christian ^a   Blöcher, Jens ^a   Kirsanow, Karola ^a   Rohland, Nadin ^c   Rieger, Benjamin ^a   Kaiser, Elke ^h   Schier, Wolfram ^h   Pozdniakov, Dimitri ^e   Khokhlov, Aleksandr ⁱ   Georges, Myriam ^b   Wilde, Sandra ^a   Powell, Adam ^a,j   Heyer, Evelyne ^b   Currat, Mathias ^k   Reich, David ^c,d,l   Samashev, Zainolla ^m   Parzinger, Hermann ⁿ   Molodin, Vyacheslav I ^e,f   Burger, Joachim ^a   more..

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^f INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^g NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^h FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

ⁱ SAMARA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND EDUCATION   (Russian Federation)

^j Universitede Geneve ^*  (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^l HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^m Branch of Institute of Archaeology Margulan   (Kazakhstan)

ⁿ Ibero Amerikanisches Institut Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FLOW; GENOMICS; IRON AGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STEPPE; TERRITORY;

DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IRON AGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITOCHONDRION; POPULATION MODEL; STEPPE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GRASSLAND; HISTORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KAZAKHSTAN; MALE; MIGRATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EURASIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DATASETS AS TOPIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GRASSLAND; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; KAZAKHSTAN; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RUSSIA; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 85014535741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14615     Document Type: Article

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