About the Authors
- Bayazit Yunusbayev
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bayazit Yunusbayev, Mait Metspalu
* E-mail: bayazit@ebc.ee, yunusbb@inbox.ru
Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Mait Metspalu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bayazit Yunusbayev, Mait Metspalu
Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Ene Metspalu
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Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Albert Valeev
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Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Sergei Litvinov
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Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Ruslan Valiev
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Affiliation Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Vita Akhmetova
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Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Elena Balanovska
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Affiliation Research Centre for Medical Genetics, RAMS, Moscow, Russia
- Oleg Balanovsky
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Affiliations Research Centre for Medical Genetics, RAMS, Moscow, Russia, Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, RAS, Moscow, Russia
- Shahlo Turdikulova
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Dilbar Dalimova
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Pagbajabyn Nymadawa
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Affiliation Mongolian Academy of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Ardeshir Bahmanimehr
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Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
- Hovhannes Sahakyan
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Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
- Kristiina Tambets
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Affiliation Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Sardana Fedorova
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Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia
- Nikolay Barashkov
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Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia
- Irina Khidiyatova
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Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Evelin Mihailov
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Affiliations Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Gene Technology Workgroup, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Rita Khusainova
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Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Larisa Damba
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Affiliation Institute of Internal Medicine, SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Miroslava Derenko
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Affiliation Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia
- Boris Malyarchuk
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Affiliation Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia
- Ludmila Osipova
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Affiliation Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Mikhail Voevoda
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Affiliations Institute of Internal Medicine, SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Levon Yepiskoposyan
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Affiliation Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
- Toomas Kivisild
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Affiliation Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 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, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Richard Villems
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Affiliations Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BY MM RVi. Performed the experiments: BY MM. Analyzed the data: BY MM AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV SL RVa VA EB OB ST DD PN AB HS KT SF NB IK EMi RK LD MD BM LO MV LY EK RVi. Wrote the paper: BY MM RVi TK. Coorinated and prepared samples for genotyping and managed data generation: EMe. Discussed and critically edited the manuscript: TK.