Origin of the Yakuts: molecular-genetic reconstructions in comparison with the hypotheses of historians
Abstract
This review presents the results of studies of the genetic history of the Yakut (Sakha) people conducted by researchers of the Yakut Scientific Centre of Complex Medical Problems and M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk, Russia) in collaboration with the researchers of the Estonian Biocentre (Tartu, Estonia) and the Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics (Ufa Scientific Centre of RAS, Ufa, Russia), over the period 2002-2016. The obtained results are compared and contrasted with the reconstructions proposed by other groups of geneticists and with historical and archaeological hypotheses on the ethnogenesis of the Yakut (Sakha) people.
About the Author
S. A. Fedorova
Institute of Natural Sciences, M.K.Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University; Yakutsk Scientific Centreof Complex Medical Center
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sardana Arkadievna FEDOROVA – Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of the laboratory; Senior Researcher
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Fedorova S.A. Origin of the Yakuts: molecular-genetic reconstructions in comparison with the hypotheses of historians. Yakut Medical Journal. 2017;(3):60-64.
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