There is a new study, which claims to have tested a real Rurikid and the haplogroup is definitely N1a!
This is Dmitry Alexandrovich , the son of Alexander Nevski. There are further claims that sample origin of Gleb is not proven and this is just a random burial, hence the Slavic haplogoup. The real Rurikid is neither pure Scandinavian or Slavic, but with a sizable East Asian component and East Asian mtdna F1b1.
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Representatives of the Rurikovich family were the rulers of Rus' for seven centuries, from the 9th century
until the end of the 16th century. “The Tale of Bygone Years”, the main chronicle source about the first centuries of the history of Rus',
traces the origin of this princely family to the Varangian Rurik, who was called to reign in 862, one
However, direct genetic evidence of the origin of the early Rurikovichs has not yet been obtained.
In this work, for the first time, a genome-wide paleogenetic analysis of the bone remains of
ruler of the Rurikovich family - Grand Duke of Vladimir Dmitry Alexandrovich (?–1294), son
Grand Duke of Kyiv and Vladimir Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (1221–1263). Installed
that his Y chromosome belongs to the N1a haplogroup. Most of the modern Rurikovichs,
corresponding, according to their pedigrees, to haplogroup N1a, have the most similar variants
of the Y chromosomes with each other, as well as with the Y chromosome of Prince Dmitry Alexandrovich. The
full genome data of medieval and modern Rurikovichs can clearly indicate that
that their family, starting at least from the 11th century. (since the time of Grand Duke Yaroslav the Wise), characteristic
characterized by carriage of the N1a haplogroup of the Y chromosome. All other alleged Rurikovichs
both ancient and modern are carriers of other haplogroups (R1a, I2a), have a high
heterogeneity of the Y chromosome sequence and do not support a single origin. Most
the probable distant ancestors of Prince Dmitry Alexandrovich in the male line were men who left the Bolshoi Oleniy Island burial ground on the coast of the Kola Peninsula around 3600 years ago. Modeling of the genome of Prince Dmitry Alexandrovich indicates a contribution to his origin the formation of three ancestral components:
(1) populations of the early medieval population of eastern Scandinavia
from the island of Öland; (2) representatives of the steppe nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppes of the Iron Age
or the early medieval population of Central Europe (steppe nomads from the territory of Hungary)
and (3) an ancient Siberian component. Reliable statistics values were also obtained by replacing
inhabitants of Scandinavia into representatives of the Slavic ancient Russian population of the 11th century. Thus,
for the first time, using the example of ancient Rurikovich, a genetic component of a complex nature is shown
interethnic interactions in the formation of the nobility of medieval Rus'.
