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Or are they just linguistically Turkicized natives of the region? The Early Medieval sample from Yakutia is pretty much the same as modern Yakuts, even though it predates the arrival of Yakut language to the region (if I'm not mistaken):
Distance to: RUS_Yana_MA:Yana_Young [dated to 1050-1250 AD]
0.03114707 Yakut
0.04020740 Sakha
0.06699746 Dolgan
0.11528888 Evenk
0.11599602 Todzin
(...)
Although Late Neolithic samples are admittedly different:
Distance to: RUS_Yakutia_Ymyiakhtakh_LN:yak021
0.05577941 Yukagir_Tundra
0.06523120 Nganassan
0.06558116 Even
0.08384846 Evenk
0.10701579 Koryak
(...)
Distance to: RUS_Yakutia_Ymyiakhtakh_LN:Kamenka1
0.06760518 Yukagir_Tundra
0.06767126 Nganassan
0.07179231 Even
0.07866252 Evenk
0.11835146 Todzin
(...)
Distance to: RUS_Yakutia_Ymyiakhtakh_LN:Kamenka3
0.06285526 Yukagir_Tundra
0.07155585 Even
0.07406188 Nganassan
0.08215681 Evenk
0.11427256 Koryak
(...)
Distance to: RUS_Yakutia_Ymyiakhtakh_LN:N4b2
0.06300490 Yukagir_Tundra
0.07509860 Evenk
0.08004853 Even
0.08145025 Nganassan
0.08825834 Todzin
(...)
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