Modern population

Alevi Dersim

Alevi_Dersim

Alevi Dersim is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Alevi_Dersim), with 14 samples from Turkey.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Kurd Kurmanji Turkey, Kurd Zaza Turkey and Kurd USSR, and among ancient ones Turkish East, Hasanlu (Iron Age) and Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran).

Period
Modern
Country
Turkey
Origin
Turkey
Sampled near
Tunceli 39.36, 39.48
Samples
14
Catalogue
Alevi_Dersim

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.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Kurd Kurmanji TurkeyKurd_Kurmanji_Turkey0.67
2Kurd Zaza TurkeyKurd_Zaza_Turkey0.78
3Kurd USSRKurd_USSR1.44
4KurdishKurdish1.44
5Kurd IraqKurd_Iraq1.48
6EzidEzid1.49
7Kurd SyriaKurd_Syria1.56
8Talysh AzerbaijanTalysh_Azerbaijan1.57
9Kurd Sorani Iran MukriyanKurd_Sorani_Iran_Mukriyan1.84
10Azerbaijani Republic ShakiAzerbaijani_Republic_Shaki2.03
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Turkish EastTurkish_East1.98
2Hasanlu (Iron Age)Hasanlu_IA2.07
3Hasanlu (Iron Age, Iran)Iran_Hasanlu_IA2.13
4Achaemenid Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Achaemenid_Hellenistic2.98
5Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval3.12
6Ganj Dareh Historic (Antiquity, Iran)Iran_GanjDareh_Historic3.15
7Dinkha Tepe BIA B (Iron Age)DinkhaTepe_BIA_B3.20
8Hajji Firuz (Iron Age, Iran)Iran_HajjiFiruz_IA3.55
9Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age)Hasanlu_MBA3.71
10Armenia (Late Iron Age)Armenia_LIA3.73

Individuals 14

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

SampleOrigin
Alevi_Dersim01Turkey
Alevi_Dersim02Turkey
Alevi_Dersim03Turkey
Alevi_Dersim04Turkey
Alevi_Dersim05Turkey
Alevi_Dersim06Turkey
Alevi_Dersim07Turkey
Alevi_Dersim08Turkey
Alevi_Dersim09Turkey
Alevi_Dersim10Turkey
Alevi_Dersim11Turkey
Alevi_Dersim12Turkey
Alevi_Dersim13Turkey
Alevi_Dersim14Turkey