Native Americans derive from a small number of Asian founders who likely arrived to the
Americas via Beringia. However, additional details about the intial colonization of the …

The Saami are regarded as extreme genetic outliers among European populations. In this
study, a high-resolution phylogenetic analysis of Saami genetic heritage was undertaken in …

Background Sakha–an area connecting South and Northeast Siberia–is significant for
understanding the history of peopling of Northeast Eurasia and the Americas. Previous …

The Yakuts (also known as Sakha), Turkic-speaking cattle-and horse-breeders, inhabit a
vast territory in Central and northeastern Siberia. On the basis of the archaeological …

The mtDNA variation of 198 Aleuts, as well as North American and Asian populations drawn
from the literature, were analyzed to reconstruct the Aleuts' genetic prehistory and to …

1Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire, Institut de Médecine Légale, 67085 Strasbourg,
France 2Department of Anthropobiology, Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS, UMR 8555 …

For the past two decades the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and, for a
slightly shorter time, its paternally inherited counterpart—the Y chromosome—have been in …

The excavation of five frozen graves at the Sytygane Syhe and Istekh‐Myrane burial sites
(dated at 400 years old) in central Yakutia revealed five human skeletons belonging to the …

Abstract The Yakuts are a Turkic‐speaking population from northeastern Siberia who are
believed to have originated from ancient Turkic populations in South Siberia, based on …

ABSTRACT The Yakuts, Middle Age Turkic speakers (15th–16th centuries), are widely
accepted as the first settlers of the Altai-Baikal area in eastern Siberia. They are supposed to …