Russian DNA: ancient origins across the largest gene-pool gradient in Europe
Russian ancestry is a Slavic core laid over older northern and steppe worlds: what ancient DNA shows about the East Slavic expansion, the Uralic-related north, the steppe south, and how to read a Russian genome.
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