Modern population

Bulgaria N

Name: Bulgaria N (Bulgaria_N)
Creator: Genoplot

Bulgaria_N

Bulgaria N is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Bulgaria_N), with 5 samples from Bulgaria.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Romania N, Macedonia N and Croatia N, and among ancient ones Serbia (Neolithic), Grotta Continenza (Neolithic) and Vinca (Middle Neolithic, Hungary).

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include H (2), J2a and X2b.

Period: Modern
Country: Bulgaria
Sampled near: Dzhulyunitsa 42.89, 25.78
Sites: Dzhulyunitsa (3)
Yabalkovo
Samples: 5
Published in: AkbariReichNature2026
LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Bulgaria_N
Bulgaria_N_o outliers
Bulgaria_N_oEEF 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
#	Population	Distance
1	Romania N`Romania_N`	1.83
2	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	2.55
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	3.90
4	Sardinian`Sardinian`	6.74
5	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	8.41
6	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	10.99
7	Italian Lazio`Italian_Lazio`	11.36
8	Italian Calabria`Italian_Calabria`	11.47
9	Italian Campania`Italian_Campania`	11.47
10	Italian Apulia`Italian_Apulia`	11.52

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Serbia (Neolithic)`SRB_N`	1.28
2	Grotta Continenza (Neolithic)`Grotta_Continenza_N`	1.39
3	Vinca (Middle Neolithic, Hungary)`Hungary_MN_Vinca`	1.44
4	South (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_South_N`	1.47
5	Saxony LBK (Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_Saxony_LBK_N`	1.51
6	LBK (Early Neolithic, Germany)`Germany_EN_LBK`	1.61
7	Popova (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_Popova_MN`	1.68
8	Turkey (Neolithic)`Turkey_N`	1.69
9	LBK HBS (Neolithic)`LBK_HBS`	1.77
10	Serbia (Early Neolithic)`Serbia_EN`	1.78

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

G2a2a1a2 G-Z6484 2
G2a2a1a2a2a1 G-Y140827

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 10

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	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I0698`	`Bulgaria_N`	M	6000-5900 BCE	Yabalkovo	G2a2a1a2 G-Z6484	H
`I11134`	`Bulgaria_N`	F	6100-5450 BCE	Dzhulyunitsa		X2b
`I11135`	`Bulgaria_N`	M	6100-5450 BCE	Dzhulyunitsa	G2a2a1a2 G-Z6484	J2a1a1
`I11270`	`Bulgaria_N`	M	6100-5450 BCE	Dzhulyunitsa	G2a2a1a2a2a1 G-Y140827	H
`I2521`	`Bulgaria_N`
`I0704_enhanced` outlier	`Bulgaria_N`	F	6059-5839 calBCE	Dzhulyunitsa		T2b
`I0706` outlier	`Bulgaria_N_oEEF`	M	6025-5847 calBCE	Dzhulyunitsa	C1a2 C-Y83490	K1a4b
`I1298_enhanced` outlier	`Bulgaria_N`	F	6057-5805 calBCE	Ohoden		K1a
`I17981` outlier	`Bulgaria_N_o`	F	6100-5450 BCE	Dzhulyunitsa		W6
`I2529_enhanced` outlier	`Bulgaria_N`	M	5723-5571 calBCE	Yabalkovo	I2a1b1 I-Y344225	T1a