Ancient population · Antiquity
MDorset (Antiquity, Canada)
Canada_MDorset
MDorset (Antiquity, Canada) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Canada_MDorset), with 1 sample from Canada, dated to c. 200 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Saqqaq (Bronze Age, Greenland), Late Dorset (Canada) and Lena River Middle N (Chalcolithic, Russia); the nearest living populations are Itelmen, Koryak and Yukagir Tundra.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is D2a.
- Period
- Antiquity
- Date
- c. 200 CE
- Country
- Canada
- Sampled near
- Victoria Island 69.40, -106.26
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- FlegontovSchiffelsNature2019
- Catalogue
Canada_MDorset
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 | Saqqaq (Bronze Age, Greenland)Greenland_Saqqaq | 2.89 |
| 2 | Late Dorset (Canada)Canada_LateDorset | 3.79 |
| 3 | Lena River Middle N (Chalcolithic, Russia)Russia_LenaRiver_MiddleN | 5.99 |
| 4 | Magadan (Bronze Age)Magadan_BA | 7.89 |
| 5 | Dzhylinda (Mesolithic)Dzhylinda_Meso | 8.18 |
| 6 | Buryatia M (Neolithic)Buryatia_M | 8.22 |
| 7 | Buryatia M (Neolithic, Russia)Russia_Buryatia_M | 8.41 |
| 8 | Siberia Lena (Early Neolithic, Russia)Russia_Siberia_Lena_EN | 8.94 |
| 9 | Central Yakutia (Late Neolithic, Russia)Russia_CentralYakutia_LN | 8.95 |
| 10 | Baikal (Neolithic)Baikal_N | 9.55 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 1
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.