“…Further, we will see that the native groups of Siberia are also very different from each other in terms of the HBV variants they host. The rates of HBsAg positives in each groups are indicated according to the reported data for Altaians [46], Kazakhs [47], Tuvans [48], Teleuts and Taimyr [25], YNAR [49,50,51], Buryats [36], Yakuts [52,53], Chukchi [35], across Siberia [25], urban population of the western former USSR [35,38,[54][55][56], Central Asian Republics as cited in the systematic review [57], and Mongolia [58].…”