Study: Estonians Genetically Closer to Russians Than to Finns

[esaima]

Thursday 25th of october 2012 was the day when Estonians were officially informed about that because the main national newspapers wrote about doctoral dissertation by Tõnu Esko from Tartu University "Novel applications of SNP array data in the analysis of the genetic structure of Europeans and in genetic association studies".


A newly published University of Tartu doctoral thesis has concluded that Estonians and Finns, despite having similar languages, are genetically less related than Estonians are to Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles and northwestern Russians.
Nevertheless, Estonians are still the closest genetic relatives that the Finns have, reported Postimees.
In the study, Tõnu Esko and others compared the DNA sequences of 16 European ethnicities.
Of the DNA sets analyzed, those most distantly related to Estonians were the Italians, French, Spanish, and Finns in northern Kuusamo region.
http://news.err.ee/society/c9cd7d0c-...e-d7204ac6fe85




The dissertation itself:
http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/bitstr...pdf?sequence=1

[esaima]

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[sevruk]

Karl's nightmare

[Austrvegr]

Karl's nightmare

We all know it only pertains to North Russians who are Estonians in disguise.

(Just to prevent Karl from running out of his house slashing passers-by with a kitchen knife.)

[morski]

Karl disapproves. :nono:

[Gustavsson]

By the way, Estonians and Russians looks diffrent quite for me.

[Talvi]

It also mentions that to Finns Estonians are still genetically the closest. Which means we arent that particularly slavic, just that North-west Russians arent either.

Northwestern Russians are actually more genetically similar to Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians than to Central and Southern Russians

[Sarmatian]

It also mentions that to Finns Estonians are still genetically the closest. Which means we arent that particularly slavic, just that North-west Russians arent either.

Does that means you are about to make claims about Greater Estonia?

[Gustavsson]

I've also heard that North-Western Russians have less Slavic genes compared with that other Slavs like similary what Talvi mentioned.

[Talvi]

Does that means you are about to make claims about Greater Estonia?

Ever checked the map of Finnic peoples? Baby, half of Russia is rightfully "ours". Even if the cultures and languages are dying it would be foolish to think they had no impact on local "Russian" genetics.