Modern population

Balti

Balti

Balti is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Balti), with 9 samples from Ladakh, India.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Brahmin Uttarakhand, Rajput Mondal and Nepali Indo-Aryan C, and among ancient ones Brahmin Himachal Pradesh West, Aligrama (Iron Age, Pakistan) and Saidu Sharif (Historical, Pakistan).

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups J2a, L1a and R1a.

Period
Modern
Country
India
Origin
Ladakh, India
Sampled near
Ladakh 34.21, 78.81
Samples
9
Catalogue
Balti
Balti_o outliers

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
1Brahmin UttarakhandBrahmin_Uttarakhand3.97
2Rajput MondalRajput_Mondal4.76
3Nepali Indo-Aryan CNepali_Indo-Aryan_C4.95
4Nepali Indo-Aryan BNepali_Indo-Aryan_B5.08
5Rajput GarhwalRajput_Garhwal5.63
6Brahmin MondalBrahmin_Mondal6.02
7BurushoBurusho7.13
8BahunBahun8.07
9Nepali Indo-Aryan ANepali_Indo-Aryan_A8.61
10Brahmin Himachal PradeshBrahmin_Himachal_Pradesh9.28
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Brahmin Himachal Pradesh WestBrahmin_Himachal_Pradesh_West9.28
2Aligrama (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Aligrama_IA9.89
3Saidu Sharif (Historical, Pakistan)Pakistan_SaiduSharif_H10.41
4Barikot 2 (Medieval, Pakistan)Pakistan_Barikot_Medieval_210.64
5Aligrama (Historical, Pakistan)Pakistan_Aligrama_H10.68
6Butkara (Historical, Pakistan)Pakistan_Butkara_H10.74
7Gogdara (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Gogdara_IA11.09
8Barikot (Historical, Pakistan)Pakistan_Barikot_H11.29
9Baniya Chettiar KeralaBaniya_Chettiar_Kerala11.36
10Katelai (Late Bronze Age)Katelai_LBA11.43

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

5 men with a call

Individuals 16

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexSiteY-DNA
YPGB052BaltiMUnknown, BaltiR1b1a1b1b R-BY187628
YPGB054BaltiMUnknown, BaltiR1a1a1b2a1a2c2 R-Y29
YPGB055BaltiUnknown, Balti
YPGB057BaltiUnknown, Balti
YPGB060BaltiUnknown, Balti
YPGB063BaltiUnknown, Balti
YPGB064BaltiMUnknown, BaltiR2 R-FGC50368
YPGB066BaltiMUnknown, BaltiL1a2a L-A23354
YPGB068BaltiMUnknown, BaltiJ2a1a1b1a1a J-PF5174
YPGB053 outlierBaltiUnknown, Balti
YPGB056 outlierBaltiMUnknown, BaltiR2b1 R-FGC50339
YPGB058 outlierBaltiMUnknown, BaltiR1a1a1b2a1a2c1d R-Y881
YPGB059 outlierBaltiMUnknown, BaltiR1a1a1b2a3 R-Y37
YPGB061 outlierBaltiUnknown, Balti
YPGB067 outlierBaltiMUnknown, BaltiD1a1a1a1a1 D-Y315257
YPGB071 outlierBalti_oMUnknown, BaltiJ2a1a1b1 J-Y9354