Modern population
Assyrian
Assyrian
Assyrian is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Assyrian), with 13 samples from Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria.
Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Georgian Jew, Mountain Jew Dagestan and Armenian Ararat, and among ancient ones Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA, Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey) and Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey).
- Period
- Modern
- Country
- Syria
- Origin
- Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria
- Sampled near
- Homs 34.00, 39.00
- Sites
- Hakkâri (5)
Urmia (2)
Adeh
Amadiya
Erbil
and 1 more - Samples
- 13
- Published in
- LazaridisReichNature2016
- Catalogue
AssyrianAssyrian_ooutliers
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgian JewGeorgian_Jew | 1.16 |
| 2 | Mountain Jew DagestanMountain_Jew_Dagestan | 1.30 |
| 3 | Armenian AraratArmenian_Ararat | 1.73 |
| 4 | ArmenianArmenian | 1.78 |
| 5 | Armenian UrfaArmenian_Urfa | 1.83 |
| 6 | Armenian ErzurumArmenian_Erzurum | 1.84 |
| 7 | Chaldean IraqChaldean_Iraq | 1.85 |
| 8 | Mountain Jew AzerbaijanMountain_Jew_Azerbaijan | 1.89 |
| 9 | Iranian JewIranian_Jew | 2.15 |
| 10 | Kurdish JewKurdish_Jew | 2.17 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA | 1.69 |
| 2 | Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_SoutheastByzantine | 2.03 |
| 3 | Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_PostMedieval | 2.04 |
| 4 | Mountain JewMountain_Jew | 2.05 |
| 5 | Hasanlu (Iron Age)Hasanlu_IA | 2.60 |
| 6 | Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible | 2.79 |
| 7 | Hasanlu B (Late Bronze Age)Hasanlu_LBA_B | 2.83 |
| 8 | Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_LateHellenistic | 2.84 |
| 9 | Armenia (Early Medieval)Armenia_EarlyMedieval | 2.91 |
| 10 | Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)DinkhaTepe_BIA_A | 3.00 |
Individuals 14
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.
| Sample | Catalogue entry | Sex | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
Assyrian151 | Assyrian | F | Hakkâri |
Assyrian152 | Assyrian | M | Hakkâri |
Assyrian153 | Assyrian | M | Hakkâri |
Assyrian155 | Assyrian | M | Mosul |
Assyrian159 | Assyrian | F | Amadiya |
Assyrian160 | Assyrian | M | Urmia |
Assyrian161 | Assyrian | M | Adeh |
Assyrian162 | Assyrian | M | Erbil |
Assyrian163 | Assyrian | F | Hakkâri |
Assyrian164 | Assyrian | M | Urmia |
Assyrian165 | Assyrian | F | Hakkâri |
ASYR_Hakkari01 | Assyrian | Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria | |
NIRQCHR01 | Assyrian | Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria | |
Assyrian160 outlier | Assyrian_o | M | Urmia |