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DOI: 10.24075/brsmu.2025.062
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Genetic portraits of volga–Oka region in the context of the Central Russia’s gene pool (Y-SNP polymorphism)

Ponomarev GYu1 , Shlykov AG1 , Gorin IO1 , Voronina MM1 , Potanina AYu1 , Petrov VA1 , Koshel SM2 , Adamov DS1 , Balanovska EV1
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1 Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia

2 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Georgy Yu. Ponomarev
Moskvorechye, 1, 115522, Moscow, Russia; moc.liamg@009i62ts

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Funding: the study was supported by the RSF grant No. 25-28-01594.

Acknowledgements: the authors would like to thank all participants of the expedition survey, who provided their biological samples for the study, to Administration and employees of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Ryazan Region and Republic of Mordovia for institutional support and assistance in conducting expeditions, as well as to Biobank of North Eurasia for access to DNA collections.

Author contribution: Ponomarev GYu — genotyping and Y-SNP marker analysis, study design; Shlykov AG — manager of the expedition survey of the gene pool of the Ryazan Region and Mordovia; Ponomarev GYu, Voronina MM, Petrov VA — expedition members, questionnaire survey data analysis; Adamov DS, Potanina AYu, Gorin IO — statistical analysis; Koshel SM — cartographic analysis; Adamov DS, Balanovska EV — study design and manuscript writing.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Research Centre for Medical Genetics (protocol No. 1 dated 29 June 2020). The data were acquired after obtaining the written informed consent from the assessed individuals and anonymised.

Received: 2025-10-16 Accepted: 2025-11-22 Published online: 2025-12-01
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