Oleg Balanovsky

TL;DR: This study has analyzed, for the first time, the four major ethnic groups in present-day Afghanistan: Hazara, Pashtun, Tajik, and Uzbek, using 52 binary markers and 19 short tandem repeats on the non-recombinant segment of the Y-chromosome to suggest all current Afghans largely share a heritage derived from a common unstructured ancestral population.

TL;DR: “clan-based” approach to estimating the mutation rate provides a third, middle way between direct farther-to-son comparisons and using archeologically known migrations, whose dates are subject to revision and of uncertain relationship to genetic events.

TL;DR: This project has patched the hole in the genetic map of Eurasia by demonstrating complexity of genetic structure of Northern Eurasians, existence of East-West and North-South genetic gradients, and assessed different inputs of ancient populations into modern populations.

TL;DR: This study dataset was generated by a massive Y-chromosome genotyping effort in the genetic genealogy community, and phylogeographic patterns were revealed by a collaboration of population geneticists and genetic genealogists.

TL;DR: In this article, the Max Planck Society, the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (771234-PALEoRIDER, to W.H., 805268-CoDisEASe to K. Bos; 834616-ARCHCAUCASUS to S.H. and AP08857177 to A.Z.