Description
Haplogroup N1c1 (M46), also known as N-Tat after the Tat marker, is one of the most important Y-DNA haplogroups in Northern Eurasia, associated with Uralic-speaking peoples and Siberian populations. It reaches extraordinarily high frequencies among Yakuts (~90%), Nganasans (~75%), Nenets (~75%), and Evenks, and is also found at elevated frequencies among Finno-Ugric Europeans including Finns (~62%), Estonians (~34%), and Latvians (~38%). N1c1 appears to have originated in Central Siberia and spread west with Uralic-speaking populations into Northeastern Europe, and north with proto-Samoyedic peoples into the Arctic.
Interesting Fact
N1c1 is perhaps the clearest Y-chromosome marker of the Uralic language family expansion — the same migration that brought Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and the Samoyed languages to their current locations. Yakuts, who speak a Turkic language but carry ~90% N1c1, acquired this haplogroup from pre-Turkic Uralic or Siberian populations they absorbed during their northward expansion along the Lena River.
Distribution by Ethnicity
| Ethnic distribution | Region | Frequency | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yakuts | Siberia (Russia) | n=300 | |
| Nganasans | Siberia (Russia) | n=100 | |
| Nenets | Arctic Siberia | n=150 | |
| Finns | Northern Europe | n=600 | |
| Latvians | Northern Europe | n=300 | |
| Estonians | Northern Europe | n=400 |
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References
- Rootsi et al. (2007) — A counter-clockwise northern route of the Y-chromosome haplogroup N from Southeast Asia towards Europe. European Journal of Human Genetics 15(2), 204–211.