Genetic studies on Russians

Genetic studies show that Russians are relatively closest to Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians and other Slavs as well as Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians.

[2] While all Russians, and other Eastern European ethnic groups display variable amounts of such geneflow from East Asian sources, genetic research suggests even higher amounts of Siberian admixture among Northern and Northwestern Russians, who display high identity-by-descent sharing with the Finnish people.

This Eastern Siberian-like ancestry is maximized among modern Nganasan people and a Bronze Age specimen from Southern Siberia (Krasnoyarsk_Krai_BA), suggesting the assimilation and slavification of formerly Uralic-speaking ethnic groups during the expansion of early Slavs.

[7][8][9] A study by Wang et al. argued that the levels of "Eastern Siberian" ancestry among Russians, but also Finns, may be linked to the diffusion of paternal haplogroup N-M231.

[13][14] The Russian gene pool, even taking into account contacts with Asians, is a typical European one.