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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Gene pool of the Ural-Volga region: genetic history of mordovia’s population based on the Y-chromosomal haplogroup N3a1-Y23475 phylogeography

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1 Bochkov Research Center for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia

2 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Anastasia T. Agdzhoyan
Moskvorechye, д. 1, 115522, Moscow, Russia; moc.liamg@nayohzdgaa

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Funding: State Assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for the Research Centre for Medical Genetics

Acknowlegements: the authors would like to thank all participants of the expedition survey (sample donors) and Biobank of North Eurasia (for access to DNA collections).

Author contribution: Balanovska EV — management; Shtrunov-Shlykov AG — expedition survey of the populations of Mordovia; Ponomarev GYu, Voronina MM, Adamov DS — Y-SNP and Y-STR marker genotyping; Agdzhoyan AT, Ponomarev GYu, Adamov DS, Gorin IO, Potanina AYu, Koshel SM — statistical, phylogenetic, cartographic analysis; Balanovska EV, Agdzhoyan AT — study design and manuscript writing.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Commitee of the Research Centre for Medical Genetics (protocol No. 1 dated 29 June 2020).

Received: 2024-12-10 Accepted: 2024-12-20 Published online: 2024-12-29
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