Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe

• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07483-5
• Publication Date: 2018-11-21T16:29:05Z
• Authors: Thiseas C. Lamnidis; Kerttu Majander; Choongwon Jeong; Elina Salmela; Anna Wessman; Vyacheslav Moiseyev; Valery Khartanovich; Oleg Balanovsky; Matthias Ongyerth; Antje Weihmann; Antti Sajantila; Janet Kelso; Svante Pääbo; Päivi Onkamo; Wolfgang Haak; Johannes Krause; Stephan Schiffels
• Keywords: Ancient DNA; Western europe; European population; Human migration

European population history has been shaped by migrations of people, and their subsequent admixture. Recently, ancient DNA brought new insights into migration events linked to the advent agriculture, possibly spread Indo-European languages. However, little is known about north-eastern Europe, in particular populations speaking Uralic languages, such as Finns Saami. Here we analyse genomic data from 11 individuals Finland north-western Russia. We show that genetic makeup northern Europe was Siberia began at least 3500 years ago. This Siberian ancestry subsequently admixed many modern region, particularly languages today. Additionally, ancestors Saami inhabited a larger territory during Iron Age, which adds historical linguistic information Finland.