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September 30, 2025GenesOpen Access

Pre-Slavic and Slavic Interaction at Eastern Periphery of Slavic Expansion in Northeastern Europe (Y-Gene Pools of Volga-Oka Region)

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DADmitry AdamovResearch Centre for Medical GeneticsASAlexsander ShlykovResearch Centre for Medical GeneticsAPA. Y. PotaninaResearch Centre for Medical Genetics

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Implication

Analysis of Y-chromosome gene pools shows pre-Slavic contributions to modern Russian and Finnic populations.

Key Points

  • About half of Russian R1a carriers in the Volga-Oka region are descended from pre-Slavic populations.
  • The haplogroup R1a frequency is 56% among Ryazan Russians and 44% among Mordovia's Finnic peoples.
  • Analysis identified 10 informative Y-STR clusters within R1a, dating back 1600–2900 years.
  • Findings suggest that the Slavs culturally assimilated indigenous tribes rather than replacing them.

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Adamov et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dc26218a7d58c25ebb2f03https://doi.org/10.3390/genes16101149
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