- The intermediate position of Estonians between Balts and Finns
- The intermediate position of some Russian groups between Komi
and the main body of Europeans. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58552.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058552 A Genome-Wide Analysis of
Populations from European Russia Reveals a New Pole of Genetic
Diversity in Northern Europe Andrey V. Khrunin et al. Several
studies examined the fine-scale structure of human genetic
variation in Europe. However, the European sets analyzed
represent mainly northern, western, central, and southern
Europe. Here, we report an analysis of approximately 166,000
single nucleotide polymorphisms in populations from eastern
(northeastern) Europe: four Russian populations from European
Russia, and three populations from the northernmost Finno-Ugric
ethnicities (Veps and two contrast groups of Komi people). These
were compared with several reference European samples, including
Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Poles, Czechs, Germans, and
Italians. The results obtained demonstrated genet