Finnish DNA: What is the Genetic History of Finland?

Subscribe to Celtic History Decoded: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCS3M_uNHH2iOJkpGhkO2SA?sub_confirmation=1 Vote For the Video Topics You Want to See & Support This Channel - https://www.patreon.com/historydecoded Check Out My Merch Store & Support This Channel: https://celtic-history-decoded.creator-spring.com/ Finnish DNA: What is the Genetic History of Finland? Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:49 Early Cultures of Finland 1:44 Uralic Speakers and Siberian Ancestry 3:30 What Makes Finnish Genetics So Unique? 4:19 Swedish Influence and Genetic Structure of Finland 5:59 Russian Rule and Estonian Connection 6:38 Finnish Disease Heritage 7:33 DNA Haplogroups of Finland What is the genetic history of Finland and what haplogroups are common in the country today? Now look at this map. It shows the speakers of Indo-European languages across Eurasia. You can see that Finland is a notable exception to this however, and this is because Finnish is a Uralic language, even though most countries around it speak an Indo-European language. But Finland isn’t just unique when it comes to its language family, it is also genetically very unique in Europe as well, making it even more fascinating to explore. Now the majority of people in Finland live in the southern and southwestern parts of the country, with it’s capital, Helsinki, right at the bottom. The Sámi people, an indigenous people of northern Europe, live primarily in the north of the country, in a region known as Sápmi, which stretches over northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Russia as well as Finland. What about the genetic history of Finland then? Well the genetic history of Finland begins with the first human settlements that arrived after the last Ice Age. Around 10,000 BC, as the glaciers receded, small groups of hunter-gatherers migrated into the region from the south and east. The first pottery appeared with the Comb Ceramic culture however, which existed from around 4200 – 2000 BC. Sources: Palo, J., Ulmanen, I., Lukka, M. et al. Genetic markers and population history: Finland revisited. Eur J Hum Genet 17, 1336–1346 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2009.53 Finns - Wikipedia Tambets, K., Yunusbayev, B., Hudjashov, G. et al. Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations. Genome Biol 19, 139 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1522-1 Dual Origins of Finns Revealed by Y Chromosome Haplotype Variation - ScienceDirect Lamnidis, T.C., Majander, K., Jeong, C. et al. Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe. Nat Commun 9, 5018 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07483-5 Finnish people’s unique genetic makeup offers clues to disease – WashU Medicine Tracing Finland’s founders: Genetic research uncovers new insights | University of Helsinki Preussner, A., Leinonen, J., Riikonen, J. et al. Y chromosome sequencing data suggest dual paths of haplogroup N1a1 into Finland. Eur J Hum Genet 33, 89–97 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-024-01707-7 Haplogroup H (mtDNA) - Eupedia Haplogroup U5 (mtDNA) - Eupedia How Finland’s Unique Genetic Heritage Is Being Used to Study the Links Between Genes and Diseases | Pfizer The Finnish genetic heritage in 2022 – from diagnosis to translational research - PMC Haplogroup N1c (Y-chromosomal DNA) - Eupedia Haplogroup I1 (Y-DNA) - Eupedia nerdy.maps File:Indo-European languages map.png - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons Pepethefrog1234567890 File:Uralic languages ( ALL LANGUAGES ).png - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons The National Board of Antiquities of Finland File:Comb ceramic pottery from Taipalsaari, Finland.jpg - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Deed - Attribution 4.0 International - Creative Commons LenguaMapa File:Haplogrupo I (Y-DNA).png - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons Maulucioni File:Haplogrupo N (ADN-Y).PNG - Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Deed - Attribution 3.0 Unported - Creative Commons Maulucioni File:Mapa de R1a.png - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons Maulucioni File:Haplogrupo R1b (ADN-Y).png - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons #finland #ancestry #dna Finland DNA - Finland Ancestry - Finnish Ancestry - Corded Ware Culture - Finnish Disease Heritage - Uralic Ancestry - Uralic Languages