Posted: 03.10.13 15:26. Post subject: Genetic affinities of Ukrainians from the maternal perspective.

ABSTRACT
The area of what is now the Ukraine has been the arena of large-scale demographic processes that may have left their traces in the contemporary gene pool of Ukrainians. In this study, we present new mitochondrial DNA data for 607 Ukrainians (hypervariable segment I sequences and coding region polymorphisms). To study the maternal affinities of Ukrainians at the level of separate mitochondrial haplotypes, we apply an original technique, the haplotype co-occurrence analysis. About 20% of the Ukrainian maternal gene pool is represented by lineages highly specific to Ukrainians, but is scarcely found in other populations. About 9% of Ukrainian mtDNA lineages are typical for peoples of the Volga region. We also identified minor gene pool strata (1.6–3.3%), each of which is common in Lithuanians, Estonians, Saami, Nenets, Cornish, and the populations of the North Caucasus. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2013. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Andrey Pshenichnov1,*, Oleg Balanovsky1,2, Olga Utevska1,3, Ene Metspalu4, Valery Zaporozhchenko1, Anastasia Agdzhoyan2, Mikhail Churnosov5, Lyubov Atramentova3, Elena Balanovska1Article first published online: 30 SEP 2013

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.22371/abstract

К сожалению, в свободном доступе текста статьи нет. Можно токо учесть слова ведущего блога Eurogenes, что украинцы куда ближе к северо-западным европейцам, чем к обитателям Северного Кавказа:

http://eurogenes.blogspot.ca/2013/09/ukrainian-mtdna-haplotype-clusters.html

Да это видно и из карты расстояний от украинцев:

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