Molecular Genetic Analysis of 400-Year-Old Human Remains Found in Two Yakut Burial Sites
✍ Scribed by François-Xavier Ricaut; Sergei Kolodesnikov; Christine Keyser-Tracqui; Anatoly Nikoyevich Alekseev; Eric Crubézy; Bertrand Ludes
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 115 KB
- Volume
- 129
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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✦ Synopsis
The excavation of five frozen graves at the Sytygane Syhe and Istekh-Myrane burial sites (dated at 400 years old) in central Yakutia revealed five human skeletons belonging to the Yakut population. To investigate the origin and evolution of the Yakut population as well as the kinship system between individuals buried in these two sites, DNA was extracted from bone samples and analyzed by autosomal short tandem repeats (STRs) and by sequencing hypervariable region I (HV1) of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region. The results showed a diversity of sepulchral organizations linked probably to the social or genetic back-