Ancient population · Iron Age

Xinjian (Iron Age, China)

Name: Xinjian (Iron Age, China) (China_Xinjian_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

China_Xinjian_IA

Xinjian (Iron Age, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_Xinjian_IA), with 1 sample from China, dated to c. 340 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Xinjiang Baiyanghe 2 (Iron Age, China), Xiongnu Central Asian (Iron Age) and Karakhanid (Medieval, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Karakhanid; the nearest living populations are Uygur, Hazara and Karakalpak.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is D4j.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 340 BCE
Country: China
Sampled near: Shirenzigou 43.61, 93.17
Samples: 1
Published in: NingCuiCurrBiol2019
Catalogue: China_Xinjian_IA.SG variant
China_Xinjian_IA_o1.SG outliers
China_Xinjian_IA_o2.SG 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	Xinjiang Baiyanghe 2 (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Baiyanghe_IA_2`	3.70
2	Xiongnu Central Asian (Iron Age)`Xiongnu_Central_Asian`	3.83
3	Karakhanid (Medieval, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Karakhanid`Kazakhstan_Karakhanid`	4.33
4	Shirenzigou (Iron Age)`Shirenzigou_IA`	4.44
5	Karakhanid (Medieval, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_Karakhanid`KAZ_Karakhanid`	4.60
6	Zevakino Chilikta 2 (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_ZevakinoChilikta_IA_2`	4.64
7	Xinjiang Xikakandasayi Historical (Antiquity, China)`China_Xinjiang_Xikakandasayi_Historical`	4.65
8	Khovd MLBAEarly Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Khovd_MLBAEarlyMedieval`	4.86
9	Sarmatian Turk (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Sarmatian_Turk_IA`	5.05
10	Turkic Possible (Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_TurkicPossible_EIA`	5.10

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Uygur`Uygur`	6.08
2	Hazara`Hazara`	6.11
3	Karakalpak`Karakalpak`	6.46
4	Nogai`Nogai`	6.68
5	Hazara Afghanistan`Hazara_Afghanistan`	6.75
6	Tubalar`Tubalar`	6.80
7	Tatar Siberian`Tatar_Siberian`	7.45
8	Nogai Dobruja`Nogai_Dobruja`	7.68
9	Kazakh`Kazakh`	8.36
10	Shor Mountain`Shor_Mountain`	8.92

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

D4j1b

Individuals 5

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
`M010_noUDG.SG`	`China_Xinjian_IA.SG`	F	403-230 calBCE	Shirenzigou		D4j1b
`F004_noUDG.SG` outlier	`China_Xinjian_IA.SG`	F	400-150 BCE	Shirenzigou		A17
`M819_noUDG.SG` outlier	`China_Xinjian_IA.SG`	F	400-200 BCE	Shirenzigou		H15b1
`M820_noUDG.SG` outlier	`China_Xinjian_IA_o1.SG`	F	367-155 calBCE	Shirenzigou		U5b2c
`X3_noUDG.SG` outlier	`China_Xinjian_IA_o2.SG`	M	400-200 BCE	Shirenzigou	Q1a2a2b1 Q-F5400	G3b