Saami and Finns

[Eugenicus]

Finns (East Baltic racial type)







Saami (Lappid racial type)

[Exeter]

Are they all from Lundborg?

[Eugenicus]

Originally Posted by Exeter

Are they all from Lundborg?

Indeed, the book can be found at the SNPA:

Lundborg, Herman
Svenska Folk- och Rastyper
Three chapters from this book (1927)

[Lada]

This girl looks to me like this russian actresse:

[Aptrgangr]

The genetic relationship between the Finns and the Finnish Saami (Lapps):

analysis of nuclear DNA and mtDNA.

P. Lahermo, A. Sajantila, P. Sistonen, M. Lukka, P. Aula, L. Peltonen, and M. L. Savontaus
Department of Medical Genetics, University of Turku, Finland.
P. Lahermo: pailah/at/utu.fi

Abstract
The genetic relationships between two Finno-Ugric-speaking populations, the Finns and the Finnish Saami (Lapps), were studied by using PCR for six nuclear-DNA marker loci, mitochondrial restriction-site polymorphism, and sequence variation of a 360-bp segment of the mitochondrial control region. The allele frequencies of each of the nuclear-DNA marker loci and the frequencies of mtDNA restriction haplotypes were significantly different between the populations. The Saami showed exceptionally low variation in their mtDNA restriction sites. The 9-bp deletion common in East Asian populations was not observed, nor did the haplotype data fit into the haplogroup categorization of Torroni et al. The average number of nucleotide substitutions from the mtDNA haplotype data indicated that the Finnish Saami may be closer to the Finns than to the other reference populations, whereas nuclear DNA suggested that the Finns are more closely related to the European reference populations than to the Finnish Saami. The similarity of the Finns to the other Europeans was even more pronounced according to the sequence data. We were unable to distinguish between the Finns and either the Swiss or Sardinian reference populations, whereas the Finnish Saami clearly stood apart. The Finnish Saami are distinct from other Circumarctic populations, although two of the lineages found among the Saami showed closer relationship to the Circumarctic than to the European lineages. The sequence data indicated an exceptionally high divergence for the Saami mtDNA control lineages. The distribution of the pairwise nucleotide differences in the Saami suggested that this population has not experienced an expansion similar to what was indicated for the Finns and the reference populations.

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The genetic relationship between the Finns and the Finnish Saami (Lapps): analysis of nuclear DNA and mtDNA.