New DNA analyses show the extent of the Yamnaya people’s genetic reach starting 5,000 years ago and how it made descendants prone to diseases like MS.

A detailed genomic study of early Eurasian horses, published in June 2024 in the journal Nature, shows that Yamnaya horses were not ancestors of the first domestic horses, known as the DOM2 lineage.

Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher risk of multiple sclerosis than other ancestries: It’s a genetic legacy of horseback-riding cattle herders who swept into the ...

When a Bronze Age people called the Yamnaya moved into northwestern Europe, they carried gene variants that today are known to increase people’s risk of multiple sclerosis, researchers found.

The Yamnaya culture, also known as the pit-grave culture or the Yamna culture, is a poorly understood ancient people group who lived across modern-day eastern Europe between 3300 and 2600 B.C ...

The people who lived there, known as the Yamnaya, were nomadic pastoralists who lived and travelled with large herds of animals, and started migrating outward about 5,000 years ago.

Grave of a Yamnaya horse rider discovered in Strejnicu, Romania. The man, 30 to 40 years old at the time of death, displays skeletal traits typical of "horsemanship syndrome." (Alin Frînculeasa) ...

Scholars have wondered whether horses aided the Yamnaya’s spread, some 1,000 years before the earliest convincing evidence of equestrianism, both written and illustrated. Animal bones from Yamnaya ...

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, CanadaAncient human DNA hints at why multiple sclerosis affects so many northern Europeans today By: Lauran Neergaard, The Associated Press Posted: 10:16 AM CST ...