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Alaska Neo Aleut

Name: Alaska Neo Aleut (AK_NeoAleut)
Creator: Genoplot

AK_NeoAleut

Alaska Neo Aleut is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (AK_NeoAleut), with 7 samples from United States, dated to c. 1380–1720 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Alaska Paleo Aleut (Medieval), Alaska Athabskan and Uelen Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia); the nearest living populations are Eskimo Naukan, Eskimo and Chipewyan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include D2a (6) and A2a.

Period: Ancient
Date: c. 1380–1720 CE
Country: United States
Sampled near: Kagamil Island Warm Cave 53.05, -169.44
Sites: Kagamil Island Warm Cave (6)
Ship Rock Island
Samples: 7
Published in: FlegontovSchiffelsNature2019
Catalogue: AK_NeoAleut

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Alaska Paleo Aleut (Medieval)`AK_PaleoAleut`	2.14
2	Alaska Athabskan`AK_Athabskan`	3.56
3	Uelen Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia)`Russia_Uelen_OldBeringSea`	4.99
4	Ekven Old Bering Sea (Medieval, Russia)`Russia_Ekven_OldBeringSea`	5.03
5	Ekven (Iron Age, Russia)`Russia_Ekven_IA`	5.12
6	Old Bering Ekven (Medieval)`Old_Bering_Ekven`	6.56
7	Alaska Ancient Athabaskan (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)`AK_Ancient_Athabaskan_1100BP`	6.58
8	Ancient Beringian (Hunter-Gatherer)`Ancient_Beringian`	8.84
9	Canada (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP)`CAN_6000BP`	10.05
10	Canada (Neolithic, c. 6500 BP)`Canada_6500BP`	10.44

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Eskimo Naukan`Eskimo_Naukan`	7.46
2	Eskimo`Eskimo`	8.15
3	Chipewyan`Chipewyan`	8.39
4	Eskimo Sireniki`Eskimo_Sireniki`	9.80
5	Eskimo Chaplin`Eskimo_Chaplin`	9.85
6	Amerindian North`Amerindian_North`	10.39
7	Chukchi`Chukchi`	14.27
8	Greenlander East`Greenlander_East`	14.51
9	Cree`Cree`	17.83
10	Itelmen`Itelmen`	18.71

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

Q1b1a1a Q-M3 4

mtDNA

7 individuals with a call

D2a1a 6
A2a

Individuals 7

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I1118`	F	1450-1820 calCE	Kagamil Island Warm Cave		D2a1a
`I1123`	M	1450-1820 calCE	Kagamil Island Warm Cave	Q1b1a1a Q-M3	A2a
`I1124`	M	1480-1960 calCE	Kagamil Island Warm Cave	Q1b1a1a Q-M3	D2a1a
`I1125`	M	1240-1510 calCE	Ship Rock Island	Q1b1a1a Q-M3	D2a1a
`I1127`	F	1350-1680 calCE	Kagamil Island Warm Cave		D2a1a
`I1128`	F	1390-1700 calCE	Kagamil Island Warm Cave		D2a1a
`I1129`	M	1390-1720 calCE	Kagamil Island Warm Cave	Q1b1a1a Q-M3	D2a1a