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Maternal genetic features of the iron age tagar population from southern siberia (1st millennium BC). / Pilipenko, Aleksandr S.; Trapezov, Rostislav O.; Cherdantsev, Stepan V. et al.
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T1 - Maternal genetic features of the iron age tagar population from southern siberia (1st millennium BC)
AU - Pilipenko, Aleksandr S.
AU - Trapezov, Rostislav O.
AU - Cherdantsev, Stepan V.
AU - Babenko, Vladimir N.
AU - Nesterova, Marina S.
AU - Pozdnyakov, Dmitri V.
AU - Molodin, Vyacheslav I.
AU - Polosmak, Natalia V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Pilipenko et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2018/9/20
Y1 - 2018/9/20
N2 - Early nomads in the Eurasian steppes since the beginning of the 1st millennium BC played a key role in the formation of the cultural and genetic landscape of populations of a significant part of Eurasia, from Eastern Europe to Eastern Central Asia. Numerous archaeological cultures associated with early nomads have been discovered throughout the Eurasian steppe belt. The Tagar archaeological culture existed in the Minusinsk basin (Sayan Mountains, Southern Siberia, Russia) in the northeastern periphery of the Eurasian steppe belt from the 8th to 1st century BC during the pre-Scythian, Scythian, and Early Xiongnu-Sarmatian periods. In this study, we evaluated mtDNA diversity in the Tagar population based on representative series (N = 79) belonging to all chronological stages of the culture. The Tagar population had a mixed mtDNA pool dominated by Western Eurasian haplogroups and subgroups (H, HV6, HV*, I, K, T, U2e, U4, U5a, and U*) and, to a lesser degree, Eastern Eurasian haplogroups (A*, A8, C*, C5, D, G2a, and F1b). The Tagar population showed a similar mtDNA pool structure to those of other Iron Age populations representing the “Scythian World.” We observed particularly high similarity between the Tagar and Classic Scythians from the North Pontic region. Our results support the assumption that genetic components introduced by Bronze Age migrants from Western Eurasia contributed to the formation of the genetic composition of Scythian period populations in Southern Siberia. Another important component of the Tagar mtDNA pool was autochthonous East Eurasian lineages, some of which (A8 and C4a2a) are potential markers of the westward genetic influence of the eastern populations of the Scythian period. Our results suggest a genetic continuity (at least partial) between the Early, Middle, and Late Tagar populations.
AB - Early nomads in the Eurasian steppes since the beginning of the 1st millennium BC played a key role in the formation of the cultural and genetic landscape of populations of a significant part of Eurasia, from Eastern Europe to Eastern Central Asia. Numerous archaeological cultures associated with early nomads have been discovered throughout the Eurasian steppe belt. The Tagar archaeological culture existed in the Minusinsk basin (Sayan Mountains, Southern Siberia, Russia) in the northeastern periphery of the Eurasian steppe belt from the 8th to 1st century BC during the pre-Scythian, Scythian, and Early Xiongnu-Sarmatian periods. In this study, we evaluated mtDNA diversity in the Tagar population based on representative series (N = 79) belonging to all chronological stages of the culture. The Tagar population had a mixed mtDNA pool dominated by Western Eurasian haplogroups and subgroups (H, HV6, HV*, I, K, T, U2e, U4, U5a, and U*) and, to a lesser degree, Eastern Eurasian haplogroups (A*, A8, C*, C5, D, G2a, and F1b). The Tagar population showed a similar mtDNA pool structure to those of other Iron Age populations representing the “Scythian World.” We observed particularly high similarity between the Tagar and Classic Scythians from the North Pontic region. Our results support the assumption that genetic components introduced by Bronze Age migrants from Western Eurasia contributed to the formation of the genetic composition of Scythian period populations in Southern Siberia. Another important component of the Tagar mtDNA pool was autochthonous East Eurasian lineages, some of which (A8 and C4a2a) are potential markers of the westward genetic influence of the eastern populations of the Scythian period. Our results suggest a genetic continuity (at least partial) between the Early, Middle, and Late Tagar populations.
KW - Archaeology
KW - DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics
KW - Ethnic Groups/genetics
KW - European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics
KW - Genetics, Population
KW - Geography
KW - Haplotypes/genetics
KW - Humans
KW - Paleontology
KW - Phylogeny
KW - Siberia
KW - VOLGA-URAL REGION
KW - ANCIENT DNA
KW - CENTRAL-ASIAN POPULATIONS
KW - NORTH CHINA
KW - ETHNIC POPULATIONS
KW - EARLY BRONZE-AGE
KW - PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
KW - SILK ROAD
KW - MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA ANALYSIS
KW - DIVERSITY
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0204062
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0204062
M3 - Article
C2 - 30235269
AN - SCOPUS:85053703213
VL - 13
SP - e0204062
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 9
M1 - 0204062
ER -
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