Editing Alans (section)

==Genetics==
[[File:Ossetians.JPG|thumb|Ossetians]]

In a study conducted in 2014 by V. V.{{nbsp}}Ilyinskyon on bone fragments from 10 Alanic burials on the Don River, DNA could be abstracted from a total of seven. Four of them turned out to belong to yDNA [[Haplogroup G2]] and six of them had mtDNA{{nbsp}}[[Haplogroup I (mtDNA)|I]]. The fact that many of the samples share the same y- and mtDNA raises the possibility that the tested individuals belonged to the same tribe or even were close relatives. Nevertheless, this supports the argument for a direct Alan ancestry of [[Ossetians]], competing with the hypothesis that Ossetians are alanized Caucasic-speakers, as the main haplogroup among Ossetians is also G2.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.academia.edu/7061155 |title = Афанасьев Г.Е., Добровольская М.В., Коробов Д.С., Решетова И.К. О культурной, антропологической и генетической специфике донских алан // Е.И. Крупнов и развитие археологии Северного Кавказа. М. 2014. С. 312–315|last1 = Reshetova|first1 = Irina|last2 = Afanasiev|first2 = Gennady}}</ref>

In 2015, the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow conducted research on various Sarmato-Alan and Saltovo-Mayaki culture Kurgan burials. In this analysis, the two Alan samples from the 4th to 6th century CE had yDNAs G2a-P15 and R1a-z94, while from the three Sarmatian samples from 2nd to 3rd century CE two had yDNA J1-M267 and one possessed R1a.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z6AHBTuUfQao.kwOSocRsvcoo |title = ДДНК Сарматы, Аланы}}</ref> Also, the three Saltovo-Mayaki samples from 8th to 9th century CE turned out to have yDNAs G, J2a-M410 and R1a-z94 respectively.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.academia.edu/15713987 | title=Афанасьев Г.Е., Вень Ш., Тун С., Ван Л., Вэй Л., Добровольская М.В., Коробов Д.С., Решетова И.К., Ли Х.. Хазарские конфедераты в бассейне Дона // Естественнонаучные методы исследования и парадигма современной археологии. М. 2015. С. 146–153| last1=Reshetova| first1=Irina| last2=Afanasiev| first2=Gennady}}</ref>

A genetic study published in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' in May 2018 examined the remains of six Alans buried in the [[Caucasus]] from c. 100 CE to 1400 CE. The sample of Y-DNA extracted belonged to [[haplogroup R1]] and [[haplogroup Q-M242]]. One of the [[Q-M242]] samples found in Beslan, North Ossetia from 200 CE found 4 relatives among [[Chechens]] from the Shoanoy Teip.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yfull.com/tree/Q-YP4000/|title=Q-YP4000 YTree}}</ref> The samples of mtDNA extracted belonged to [[Haplogroup HV (mtDNA)|HV2a1]], [[Haplogroup U (mtDNA)#Haplogroup U4|U4d3]], [[Haplogroup X (mtDNA)|X2f]], [[Haplogroup H (mtDNA)|H13a2c]], [[Haplogroup H (mtDNA)#H5|H5]], and [[Haplogroup W (mtDNA)|W1]].{{sfn|Damgaard et al.|2018}}