Fwd: Magyar and Madjar

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Abstract

 

Bíró AZ, Zalán A, Völgyi A, Pamjav H.

 

Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest

H-1088, Hungary.

 

The Madjars are a previously unstudied population from Kazakhstan who

practice a form of local exogamy in which wives are brought in from

neighboring tribes, but husbands are not, so the paternal lineages

remain genetically isolated within the population. Their name bears a

striking resemblance to the Magyars who have inhabited Hungary for

over a millennium, but whose previous history is poorly understood. We

have now carried out a genetic analysis of the population structure

and relationships of the Madjars, and in particular have sought to

test whether or not they show a genetic link with the Magyars. We

concentrated on paternal lineages because of their isolation within

the Madjars and sampled males representing all extant male lineages

unrelated for more than eight generations (n = 45) in the Torgay area

of Kazakhstan. The Madjars show evidence of extensive genetic drift,

with 24/45 carrying the same 12-STR haplotype within haplogroup G.

Genetic distances based on haplogroup frequencies were used to compare

the Madjars with 37 other populations and showed that they were

closest to the Hungarian population rather than their geographical

neighbors. Although this finding could result from chance, it is

striking and suggests that there could have been genetic contact

between the ancestors of the Madjars and Magyars, and thus that modern

Hungarians may trace their ancestry to Central Asia, instead of the

Eastern Uralic region as previously thought. Am J Phys Anthropol 2009.

© 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19170200?ordinalpos=1 & itool=EntrezSystem2.PEn\

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