Gurdeep Matharu Lall, Maarten H D Larmuseau, Jon H Wetton, Chiara Batini, Pille Hallast, Tunde I Huszar, Daniel Zadik, Sigurd Aase, Tina Baker, Patricia Balaresque, Walter Bodmer, Anders D Børglum, Peter de Knijff, Hayley Dunn, Stephen E Harding, Harald Løvvik, Berit Myhre Dupuy, Horolma Pamjav, Andreas O Tillmar, Maciej Tomaszewski, Chris Tyler-Smith, Marta Pereira Verdugo, Bruce Winney, Pragya Vohra, Joanna Story, Turi E King, Mark A Jobling
The influence of Viking-Age migrants to the British Isles is obvious in archaeological and place-names evidence, but their demographic impact has been unclear. Autosomal genetic analyses support Norse Viking contributions to parts of Britain, but show no signal corresponding to the Danelaw, the region under Scandinavian administrative control from the ninth to eleventh centuries. Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a1 has been considered as a possible marker for Viking migrations because of its high frequency in peninsular Scandinavia (Norway and Sweden)...
March 2021: European Journal of Human Genetics: EJHG