Natalia Balinova, Georgi Hudjašov, Vasili Pankratov, Erwan Pennarun, Maere Reidla, Ene Metspalu, Valery Batyrov, Irina Khomyakova, Tuuli Reisberg, Jüri Parik, Murat Dzhaubermezov, Elena Aiyzhy, Altana Balinova, Galina El'chinova, Nailya Spitsyna, Elza Khusnutdinova, Mait Metspalu, Kristiina Tambets, Richard Villems, Alena Kushniarevich
The Oirats are a group of Mongolian-speaking peoples residing in Russia, China, and Mongolia, who speak Oirat dialects of the Mongolian language. Migrations of nomadic ethnopolitical formations of the Oirats across the Eurasian Steppe during the Late Middle Ages/early Modern times resulted in a wide geographic spread of Oirat ethnic groups from present-day northwestern China in East Asia to the Lower Volga region in Eastern Europe. In this study, we generate new genome-wide and mitochondrial DNA data for present-day Oirat-speaking populations from Kalmykia in Eastern Europe, Western Mongolia, and the Xinjiang region of China, as well as Issyk-Kul Sart-Kalmaks from Central Asia, and historically related ethnic groups from Altai, Tuva, and Northern Mongolia to study the genetic structure and history of the Oirats...
April 11, 2024: European Journal of Human Genetics: EJHG