Alena Kushniarevich

Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 23b Riia Street, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, 23b Riia Street, Tartu 51010, Estonia.

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July 2019

The Arrival of Siberian Ancestry Connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic Speakers further East.

Curr Biol 2019 05 9;29(10):1701-1711.e16. Epub 2019 May 9.

Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia. Electronic address:

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May 2019

Y-chromosomal analysis of clan structure of Kalmyks, the only European Mongol people, and their relationship to Oirat-Mongols of Inner Asia.

Eur J Hum Genet 2019 09 11;27(9):1466-1474. Epub 2019 Apr 11.

Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.

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September 2019

The Genetic Ancestry of Modern Indus Valley Populations from Northwest India.

Authors:

Ajai K Pathak Anurag Kadian Alena Kushniarevich Francesco Montinaro Mayukh Mondal Linda Ongaro Manvendra Singh Pramod Kumar Niraj Rai Jüri Parik Ene Metspalu Siiri Rootsi Luca Pagani Toomas Kivisild Mait Metspalu Gyaneshwer Chaubey Richard Villems

Am J Hum Genet 2018 12;103(6):918-929

Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia.

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December 2018

Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations.

Genome Biol 2018 09 21;19(1):139. Epub 2018 Sep 21.

Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia.

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September 2018

The genetic variation in the R1a clade among the Ashkenazi Levites' Y chromosome.

Sci Rep 2017 11 2;7(1):14969. Epub 2017 Nov 2.

Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.

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November 2017

Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7.

Authors:

Hovhannes Sahakyan Baharak Hooshiar Kashani Rakesh Tamang Alena Kushniarevich Amirtharaj Francis Marta D Costa Ajai Kumar Pathak Zaruhi Khachatryan Indu Sharma Mannis van Oven Jüri Parik Hrant Hovhannisyan Ene Metspalu Erwan Pennarun Monika Karmin Erika Tamm Kristiina Tambets Ardeshir Bahmanimehr Tuuli Reisberg Maere Reidla Alessandro Achilli Anna Olivieri Francesca Gandini Ugo A Perego Nadia Al-Zahery Massoud Houshmand Mohammad Hossein Sanati Pedro Soares Ekta Rai Jelena Šarac Tena Šarić Varun Sharma Luisa Pereira Veronica Fernandes Viktor Černý Shirin Farjadian Deepankar Pratap Singh Hülya Azakli Duran Üstek Natalia Ekomasova Trofimova Ildus Kutuev Sergei Litvinov Marina Bermisheva Elza K Khusnutdinova Niraj Rai Manvendra Singh Vijay Kumar Singh Alla G Reddy Helle-Viivi Tolk Svjetlana Cvjetan Lovorka Barac Lauc Pavao Rudan Emmanuel N Michalodimitrakis Nicholas P Anagnou Kalliopi I Pappa Maria V Golubenko Vladimir Orekhov Svetlana A Borinskaya Katrin Kaldma Monica A Schauer Maya Simionescu Vladislava Gusar Elena Grechanina Periyasamy Govindaraj Mikhail Voevoda Larissa Damba Swarkar Sharma Lalji Singh Ornella Semino Doron M Behar Levon Yepiskoposyan Martin B Richards Mait Metspalu Toomas Kivisild Kumarasamy Thangaraj Phillip Endicott Gyaneshwer Chaubey Antonio Torroni Richard Villems

Sci Rep 2017 04 7;7:46044. Epub 2017 Apr 7.

Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia.

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April 2017

Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia.

Authors:

Luca Pagani Daniel John Lawson Evelyn Jagoda Alexander Mörseburg Anders Eriksson Mario Mitt Florian Clemente Georgi Hudjashov Michael DeGiorgio Lauri Saag Jeffrey D Wall Alexia Cardona Reedik Mägi Melissa A Wilson Sayres Sarah Kaewert Charlotte Inchley Christiana L Scheib Mari Järve Monika Karmin Guy S Jacobs Tiago Antao Florin Mircea Iliescu Alena Kushniarevich Qasim Ayub Chris Tyler-Smith Yali Xue Bayazit Yunusbayev Kristiina Tambets Chandana Basu Mallick Lehti Saag Elvira Pocheshkhova George Andriadze Craig Muller Michael C Westaway David M Lambert Grigor Zoraqi Shahlo Turdikulova Dilbar Dalimova Zhaxylyk Sabitov Gazi Nurun Nahar Sultana Joseph Lachance Sarah Tishkoff Kuvat Momynaliev Jainagul Isakova Larisa D Damba Marina Gubina Pagbajabyn Nymadawa Irina Evseeva Lubov Atramentova Olga Utevska François-Xavier Ricaut Nicolas Brucato Herawati Sudoyo Thierry Letellier Murray P Cox Nikolay A Barashkov Vedrana Skaro Lejla Mulahasanovic Dragan Primorac Hovhannes Sahakyan Maru Mormina Christina A Eichstaedt Daria V Lichman Syafiq Abdullah Gyaneshwer Chaubey Joseph T S Wee Evelin Mihailov Alexandra Karunas Sergei Litvinov Rita Khusainova Natalya Ekomasova Vita Akhmetova Irina Khidiyatova Damir Marjanović Levon Yepiskoposyan Doron M Behar Elena Balanovska Andres Metspalu Miroslava Derenko Boris Malyarchuk Mikhail Voevoda Sardana A Fedorova Ludmila P Osipova Marta Mirazón Lahr Pascale Gerbault Matthew Leavesley Andrea Bamberg Migliano Michael Petraglia Oleg Balanovsky Elza K Khusnutdinova Ene Metspalu Mark G Thomas Andrea Manica Rasmus Nielsen Richard Villems Eske Willerslev Toomas Kivisild Mait Metspalu

Nature 2016 Oct 21;538(7624):238-242. Epub 2016 Sep 21.

Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.

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October 2016

East Eurasian ancestry in the middle of Europe: genetic footprints of Steppe nomads in the genomes of Belarusian Lipka Tatars.

Sci Rep 2016 07 25;6:30197. Epub 2016 Jul 25.

Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.

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July 2016

Human Y Chromosome Haplogroup N: A Non-trivial Time-Resolved Phylogeography that Cuts across Language Families.

Am J Hum Genet 2016 07;99(1):163-73

Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia. Electronic address:

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July 2016

Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal Data.

PLoS One 2015 2;10(9):e0135820. Epub 2015 Sep 2.

Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

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May 2016

A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture.

Authors:

Monika Karmin Lauri Saag Mário Vicente Melissa A Wilson Sayres Mari Järve Ulvi Gerst Talas Siiri Rootsi Anne-Mai Ilumäe Reedik Mägi Mario Mitt Luca Pagani Tarmo Puurand Zuzana Faltyskova Florian Clemente Alexia Cardona Ene Metspalu Hovhannes Sahakyan Bayazit Yunusbayev Georgi Hudjashov Michael DeGiorgio Eva-Liis Loogväli Christina Eichstaedt Mikk Eelmets Gyaneshwer Chaubey Kristiina Tambets Sergei Litvinov Maru Mormina Yali Xue Qasim Ayub Grigor Zoraqi Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen Farida Akhatova Joseph Lachance Sarah Tishkoff Kuvat Momynaliev François-Xavier Ricaut Pradiptajati Kusuma Harilanto Razafindrazaka Denis Pierron Murray P Cox Gazi Nurun Nahar Sultana Rane Willerslev Craig Muller Michael Westaway David Lambert Vedrana Skaro Lejla Kovačevic Shahlo Turdikulova Dilbar Dalimova Rita Khusainova Natalya Trofimova Vita Akhmetova Irina Khidiyatova Daria V Lichman Jainagul Isakova Elvira Pocheshkhova Zhaxylyk Sabitov Nikolay A Barashkov Pagbajabyn Nymadawa Evelin Mihailov Joseph Wee Tien Seng Irina Evseeva Andrea Bamberg Migliano Syafiq Abdullah George Andriadze Dragan Primorac Lubov Atramentova Olga Utevska Levon Yepiskoposyan Damir Marjanovic Alena Kushniarevich Doron M Behar Christian Gilissen Lisenka Vissers Joris A Veltman Elena Balanovska Miroslava Derenko Boris Malyarchuk Andres Metspalu Sardana Fedorova Anders Eriksson Andrea Manica Fernando L Mendez Tatiana M Karafet Krishna R Veeramah Neil Bradman Michael F Hammer Ludmila P Osipova Oleg Balanovsky Elza K Khusnutdinova Knut Johnsen Maido Remm Mark G Thomas Chris Tyler-Smith Peter A Underhill Eske Willerslev Rasmus Nielsen Mait Metspalu Richard Villems Toomas Kivisild

Genome Res 2015 Apr 13;25(4):459-66. Epub 2015 Mar 13.

Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, United Kingdom;

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April 2015

Ancient DNA reveals matrilineal continuity in present-day Poland over the last two millennia.

Authors:

Anna Juras Miroslawa Dabert Alena Kushniarevich Helena Malmström Maanasa Raghavan Jakub Z Kosicki Ene Metspalu Eske Willerslev Janusz Piontek

PLoS One 2014 22;9(10):e110839. Epub 2014 Oct 22.

Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland.

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July 2015

Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans.

Authors:

Iosif Lazaridis Nick Patterson Alissa Mittnik Gabriel Renaud Swapan Mallick Karola Kirsanow Peter H Sudmant Joshua G Schraiber Sergi Castellano Mark Lipson Bonnie Berger Christos Economou Ruth Bollongino Qiaomei Fu Kirsten I Bos Susanne Nordenfelt Heng Li Cesare de Filippo Kay Prüfer Susanna Sawyer Cosimo Posth Wolfgang Haak Fredrik Hallgren Elin Fornander Nadin Rohland Dominique Delsate Michael Francken Jean-Michel Guinet Joachim Wahl George Ayodo Hamza A Babiker Graciela Bailliet Elena Balanovska Oleg Balanovsky Ramiro Barrantes Gabriel Bedoya Haim Ben-Ami Judit Bene Fouad Berrada Claudio M Bravi Francesca Brisighelli George B J Busby Francesco Cali Mikhail Churnosov David E C Cole Daniel Corach Larissa Damba George van Driem Stanislav Dryomov Jean-Michel Dugoujon Sardana A Fedorova Irene Gallego Romero Marina Gubina Michael Hammer Brenna M Henn Tor Hervig Ugur Hodoglugil Aashish R Jha Sena Karachanak-Yankova Rita Khusainova Elza Khusnutdinova Rick Kittles Toomas Kivisild William Klitz Vaidutis Kučinskas Alena Kushniarevich Leila Laredj Sergey Litvinov Theologos Loukidis Robert W Mahley Béla Melegh Ene Metspalu Julio Molina Joanna Mountain Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi Desislava Nesheva Thomas Nyambo Ludmila Osipova Jüri Parik Fedor Platonov Olga Posukh Valentino Romano Francisco Rothhammer Igor Rudan Ruslan Ruizbakiev Hovhannes Sahakyan Antti Sajantila Antonio Salas Elena B Starikovskaya Ayele Tarekegn Draga Toncheva Shahlo Turdikulova Ingrida Uktveryte Olga Utevska René Vasquez Mercedes Villena Mikhail Voevoda Cheryl A Winkler Levon Yepiskoposyan Pierre Zalloua Tatijana Zemunik Alan Cooper Cristian Capelli Mark G Thomas Andres Ruiz-Linares Sarah A Tishkoff Lalji Singh Kumarasamy Thangaraj Richard Villems David Comas Rem Sukernik Mait Metspalu Matthias Meyer Evan E Eichler Joachim Burger Montgomery Slatkin Svante Pääbo Janet Kelso David Reich Johannes Krause

Nature 2014 Sep;513(7518):409-13

1] Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72074, Germany. [2] Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany. [3] Max Planck Institut für Geschichte und Naturwissenschaften, Jena 07745, Germany.

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September 2014

Standing at the gateway to Europe--the genetic structure of Western balkan populations based on autosomal and haploid markers.

Authors:

Lejla Kovacevic Kristiina Tambets Anne-Mai Ilumäe Alena Kushniarevich Bayazit Yunusbayev Anu Solnik Tamer Bego Dragan Primorac Vedrana Skaro Andreja Leskovac Zlatko Jakovski Katja Drobnic Helle-Viivi Tolk Sandra Kovacevic Pavao Rudan Ene Metspalu Damir Marjanovic

PLoS One 2014 22;9(8):e105090. Epub 2014 Aug 22.

Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; University Center of Forensic Science, Split, Croatia.

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May 2015

No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews.

Hum Biol 2013 Dec;85(6):859-900

Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

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December 2013

Unravelling the distinct strains of Tharu ancestry.

Eur J Hum Genet 2014 Dec 26;22(12):1404-12. Epub 2014 Mar 26.

CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.

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December 2014

The phylogenetic and geographic structure of Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a.

Eur J Hum Genet 2015 Jan 26;23(1):124-31. Epub 2014 Mar 26.

1] Estonian Biocentre and the Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia [2] Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia.

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January 2015