The genetic study of a museum anthropological sample from the urban burial of Staraya Ryazan of the 11th–13th centuries
- Authors: Soshkina A.D.1, Andreeva T.V.2,1,3, Kunizheva S.S.2,1, Adrianova I.Y.1, Malyarchuk A.B.1,3, Manakhov P.D.3, Buzhilova A.P.3, Strikalov I.Y.4, Rogaev E.I.2,5
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Affiliations:
- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Sirius University
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- University of Massachusetts
- Issue: Vol 61, No 6 (2025)
- Pages: 70-81
- Section: ГЕНЕТИКА ЧЕЛОВЕКА
- URL: https://jdigitaldiagnostics.com/0016-6758/article/view/687085
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0016675825060062
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/SWFXYY
- ID: 687085
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Abstract
Old (Staraya) Ryazan has a special place in the history of Rus' cities. Following its destruction by Batu's troops in December 1237, the city declined and was ultimately abandoned in the 14th century. The new city was built in a different place. Studies of the population of Old Ryazan based on anthropological museum collections, allow us to assess the genetic structure of the urban population mainly of the pre-Mongol period. The article discusses the results of the analysis of one sample from the materials obtained during the excavations of A.V. Selivanov. The results of anthropological and whole-genome analysis showed that the sample under study belonged to a woman. Reconstruction and analysis of the complete sequence of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) indicated its belonging to the Western European haplogroup HV4a1a. This study is the first finding of this mitochondrial haplogroup among the medieval population of Rus'. The discovered mtDNA maternal lineage is currently rare and predominantly distributed among the European population of the Franco-Cantabrian region (the territory of northern Spain and south France). The closest matches in the complete mtDNA sequence (a difference of one nucleotide position) with the studied sample were found in modern representatives of the Basques and one individual from Denmark. The results obtained may indicate the Western European maternal ancestry of the studied woman from medieval Old Ryazan and the existence of possible common relatives with the modern population of Western Europe. Our study is an example of the use of modern genomic methods to reconstruct the individual history of people whose anthropological materials are presented in museum collections. In addition, the obtained results contribute to understanding the peculiarities of the formation of the genetic structure of the urban population of Rus'.
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A. D. Soshkina
Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: andreeva@rogaevlab.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
T. V. Andreeva
Sirius University; Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lomonosov Moscow State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: andreeva@rogaevlab.ru
Scientific Center of Genetics and Life Sciences, Center of Genetics and Genetic Technologies, Faculty of Biology, Department of Genetics
Russian Federation, Sirius Federal Territory, village Sirius, 354340; Moscow, 119991; Moscow, 119234S. S. Kunizheva
Sirius University; Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: andreeva@rogaevlab.ru
Scientific Center of Genetics and Life Sciences
Russian Federation, Sirius Federal Territory, village Sirius, 354340; Moscow, 119991I. Y. Adrianova
Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: andreeva@rogaevlab.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
A. B. Malyarchuk
Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: andreeva@rogaevlab.ru
Center of Genetics and Genetic Technologies, Faculty of Biology, Department of Genetics
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991; Moscow, 119234P. D. Manakhov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: andreeva@rogaevlab.ru
Scientific Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology
Russian Federation, Moscow, 125009A. P. Buzhilova
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: andreeva@rogaevlab.ru
Scientific Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology
Russian Federation, 125009 RussiaI. Yu. Strikalov
Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: andreeva@rogaevlab.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 117292
E. I. Rogaev
Sirius University; University of Massachusetts
Email: evivrecc@gmail.com
Scientific Center of Genetics and Life Sciences, Chan Medical School, Department of Psychiatry
Russian Federation, Sirius Federal Territory, village Sirius, 354340; Shrewsbury, 01545 USAReferences
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