The Roma are a group of populations with a common origin that share the Romani identity
and cultural heritage. Their genetic history has been inferred through multiple studies based …

The Yiddish language is over 1,000 years old and incorporates German, Slavic, and Hebrew
elements. The prevalent view claims Yiddish has a German origin, whereas the opposing …

Abstract Background The Mountains of the Western Lesser Caucasus with its rich plant
diversity, multicultural and multilingual nature host diverse ethnobotanical knowledge …

Y-chromosomal variation in West Asian populations has so far been studied in less detail
than in the neighboring Europe. Here, we analyzed 598 Y-chromosomes from two West …

This interdisciplinary study allowed me to establish, on the basis of linguistic, genetic,
archaeological, historical and religious data, that linguistic concordances between Gaulish …

Aim Our research attempts to provide an explicit explanation of human–biome interactions
during the last glacial period and how these have influenced current human population …

The Druze are an aggregate of communities in the Levant and Near East living almost
exclusively in the mountains of Syria, Lebanon and Israel whose~ 1000 year old religion …

This study is based on the extraction and sequencing of the mitochondrial DNA from 132
ancient human samples from central Mongolia dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age …

Objectives In this study, we characterized genetic diversity in the Svans from northwestern
Georgia to better understand the phylogeography of their genetic lineages, determine …

This study clarifies the role of refugia and landscape permeability in the formation of the
current genetic structure of peoples of the Caucasus. We report novel genome-wide data for …