Volga_IA seven individuals 23andme format

The Volga finns, knows through historical documents as Meryans, Mescherans, Muroma, Mari, Moksha, and Erzya, descend from populations that inhabited central Russia prior, similar to bronze age baltic populations, and siberian newcomers that brought Uralic language to the region.

Iron Age inhabitants of Suzdal were genetically unique but close to Uralic speakers, the results of ADMIXTURE also showed that Iron Age inhabitants of Suzdal carried Siberian ancestry, as do most present-day Uralic-speakers. This ancestry component is maximized in present-day Nganasans from the Taymyr Peninsula, but it may have been more widespread in the past. The best-fitting models indicated that VolgaOka_IA shared approximately half of its ancestry with a population related to Baltic Iron Age individuals (800 BCE–50 CE), and 25% of its ancestry related to Russia_Kola_BA and 25% to Iron Age Steppe).