About the Authors
- Alena Kushniarevich
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alena Kushniarevich, Olga Utevska
* E-mail: lkushniarevich@gmail.com (A. Kushniarevich); balanovsky@inbox.ru (OB)
Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
- Olga Utevska
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alena Kushniarevich, Olga Utevska
Affiliations Department of Genetics and Cytology, Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkіv, Ukraine, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Marina Chuhryaeva
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Affiliations Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Anastasia Agdzhoyan
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Affiliations Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Khadizhat Dibirova
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Affiliations Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Ingrida Uktveryte
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Affiliation Department of Human and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Märt Möls
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Affiliation Institute of Mathematical Statistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Lejla Mulahasanovic
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Affiliations Center for Genomics and Transcriptomics (CeGaT GmbH), Tübingen, Deutschland, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Andrey Pshenichnov
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Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Svetlana Frolova
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Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Andrey Shanko
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Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Ene Metspalu
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Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Maere Reidla
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Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Kristiina Tambets
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Affiliation Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Erika Tamm
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Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Sergey Koshel
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Affiliation Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Valery Zaporozhchenko
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Affiliations Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Lubov Atramentova
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Affiliation Department of Genetics and Cytology, Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkіv, Ukraine
- Vaidutis Kučinskas
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Affiliation Department of Human and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Oleg Davydenko
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Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
- Olga Goncharova
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Affiliation Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
- Irina Evseeva
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Affiliations Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Northern State Medical University, Arkhangel, Russia
- Michail Churnosov
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Affiliation Belgorod State University, Belgorod, Russia
- Elvira Pocheshchova
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Affiliation Kuban State Medical University, Krasnodar, Russia
- Bayazit Yunusbayev
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Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Elza Khusnutdinova
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Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Damir Marjanović
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Affiliations International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
- Pavao Rudan
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Affiliation Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
- Siiri Rootsi
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Affiliation Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Nick Yankovsky
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Affiliation Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Phillip Endicott
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Affiliation Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
- Alexei Kassian
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Affiliations Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia
- Anna Dybo
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Affiliation Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- The Genographic Consortium
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¶Membership of the Genographic Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
- Chris Tyler-Smith
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Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambs, United Kingdom
- Elena Balanovska
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Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Mait Metspalu
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Affiliation Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Toomas Kivisild
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Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Richard Villems
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¶‡ RV and OB are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
- Oleg Balanovsky
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* E-mail: lkushniarevich@gmail.com (A. Kushniarevich); balanovsky@inbox.ru (OB)
¶‡ RV and OB are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliations Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Competing Interests
The authors' have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Co-author Toomas Kivisild is a PLOS ONE Academic Editor. Additionally, Lejla Mulahasanovic is employed by Center for Genomics and Transcriptomics (CeGaT GmbH). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RV OB A. Kushniarevich EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB LA LM M. Churnosov VK OD OG SK IE DM NY PR EP TGC EK. Wrote the paper: A. Kushniarevich OB OU. General sample management and quality control for whole genome SNP analysis: EM. Performed linguistic analysis and wrote S2: A. Kassian AD. Assisted in data gathering/representation: VZ SK. Editing of the manuscript: RV TK M. Metspalu CTS PE EB A. Kassian. Performed genotyping of the Y-chromosome: OU KD IU AP SF AS AA M. Chuhryaeva OB SR. Performed genotyping of mtDNA: OB EM KT MR ET AP. Analyzed Y-chromosome and mtDNA data: OU OB. Analyzed Whole genome SNP data: A. Kushniarevich M. Metspalu BY. Supervised the statistical analyses related to the IBD segments analysis: M. Möls.