DNA of Saami people #scandinavia #genetics #history #uralic

The Saami people are indigenous to the Kola Peninsula and North of Fenoscandia. They are Uralic speakers which places them in the same linguistic family tree as Finns and Hungarians. Due to their arctic environment and a diet that lacks sugar, the Saamis have certain genetic adaptations typical of other arctic peoples. Relative to their Scandinavian neighbors, the Saami have higher odds of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cystic fibrosis, inherited anemia, and stroke.
The Saami do not resemble Scandinavians or Finns genetically. Instead they resemble populations of the Russia’s Volga-Ural region.
The Saami descend from a 50/50 mixture of Indo-Europeans with Bronze Age Uralic newcomers into Europe, whereas their Scandinavian neighbors to the west and Finnish neighbors to the South are almost entirely Indo-European genetically.
In the Iron Age, Saamic languages were spoken as far south as Leningrad oblast, but overtime Finnic speakers have displaced them further and further north.

[RainOtherwell]

I am a descendant of the Saami. But it is incredibly diluted, so mostly Finn

[Michael-yog]

... They don't consume sugar, thus don't consume glucose, how are they at risk of diabetes?