Средневековый генофонд Водской земли Великого Новгорода
Medieval Gene Pool of the Vod’ Land of Novgorod the Great

Summary/Abstract: The DNA of 17 individuals of the 12th—15th centuries from the burial grounds of Teglitsa I and II, Ratchino I, Velikino was studied. There were identified Y-chromosomal haplogroups of 12 males, mitochondrial haplogroups of 12 males and females. In the genetic structure of the population of the Izhora plateau, the presence of three Y-chromosomal haplogroups, confined to certain sites, was identified. Individuals from Teglitsa I belong to haplogroup E1b1b1a1b (V13), from the Teglitsa II to R1a1a1b1a (Z282), individuals with haplogroup N1a1 (M46) have been identified in Velikino. In Ratchino I, three haplogroups were identified: N1a1 (M46), N1a1a1a1a (CTS2929), E1b1b1a1b (V13). Phylogenetic networks built on the basis of STR haplotypes of the Y chromosome for haplogroup N1a (M46) showed the genetic proximity of the medieval collectives from Ratchino I and Velikino to the modern populations of the Baltic-Finnish peoples. A surprise was the good representation in Teglitsa and Ratchino of the haplogroup E1b1b1a1b (V13), which has a predominantly Carpathian-Balkan distribution. The study of mitochondrial DNA showed a high diversity of female lines and the absence of their confinement to certain sites. Among the mt-DNA haplogroups of archaeological individuals of the Izhora plateau, there are Western Eurasian and Eastern Eurasian haplogroups, however, most haplogroups belong to Western Eurasian — H2a2a1, U5a, U5b, J1c, J1b1a, T2b, K1, and only two Eastern Eurasian — W6 and D4g2.

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