Ancient population · Medieval

Chernigov VA (Medieval)

Name: Chernigov VA (Medieval) (Chernigov_VA)
Creator: Genoplot

Chernigov_VA

Chernigov VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Chernigov_VA), with 1 sample from Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, dated to c. 1050 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Lutsk (Medieval), Bosnia Herzegovina (Medieval) and Ukraine (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Ukrainian Lviv, Ukrainian Sumy and Ukrainian Zakarpattia.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is H5a.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 1050 CE
Country: Ukraine
Origin: Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine
Sampled near: Chernigіv 51.49, 31.31
Samples: 1
Published in: MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
Catalogue: Chernigov_VA_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.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Lutsk (Medieval)`Lutsk_MA`	3.27
2	Bosnia Herzegovina (Medieval)`BosniaHerzegovina_Medieval`	3.32
3	Ukraine (Medieval)`Ukraine_Medieval`	3.35
4	Sunghir (Medieval, Russia)`Russia_Sunghir_Medieval`	3.48
5	Montenegro (Iron Age) · MNE_IA`MNE_IA`	3.65
6	Sunghir (Medieval)`Sunghir_MA`	3.66
7	Montenegro (Iron Age) · Montenegro_IA`Montenegro_IA`	3.69
8	Sirmium Ottoman (Serbia)`Serbia_Sirmium_Ottoman`	3.71
9	Avar 5 (Medieval, Hungary)`Hungary_Avar_5`	3.76
10	Gnezdovo VA (Medieval)`Gnezdovo_VA`	4.20

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Ukrainian Lviv`Ukrainian_Lviv`	2.80
2	Ukrainian Sumy`Ukrainian_Sumy`	3.10
3	Ukrainian Zakarpattia`Ukrainian_Zakarpattia`	3.14
4	Ukrainian`Ukrainian`	3.17
5	Russian Orel`Russian_Orel`	3.22
6	Russian Voronez`Russian_Voronez`	3.35
7	Russian Belgorod`Russian_Belgorod`	3.46
8	Ukrainian Dnipro`Ukrainian_Dnipro`	3.47
9	Ukrainian Chernihiv`Ukrainian_Chernihiv`	3.49
10	Ukrainian Zhytomyr`Ukrainian_Zhytomyr`	3.49

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

I2a1a2b1a1 I-CTS10228

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

H5a2a

Individuals 1

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	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`VK542` outlier	M	1000-1100 CE	Chernigіv	I2a1a2b1a1 I-CTS10228	H5a2a