Ancient population · Iron Age

Xinjiang Caishichang (Iron Age, China)

Name: Xinjiang Caishichang (Iron Age, China) (China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA)
Creator: Genoplot

China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA

Xinjiang Caishichang (Iron Age, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA), with 3 samples from China, dated to c. 300–90 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Tian Shan Saka (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan), Xinjiang Wutulan Suodunbulake possible (Iron Age, China) and Xinjiang Dongmaili (Iron Age, China); the nearest living populations are Tajik Tajikistan Hisor, Pamiri Sarikoli and Besermyan.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2b; its mtDNA haplogroups include M3 (2) and A11.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 300–90 BCE
Country: China
Sampled near: Caishichang 43.80, 82.51
Samples: 3
Published in: KumarFuScience2022
Catalogue: China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA
China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA_oWestEurasian 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	Tian Shan Saka (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_TianShan_Saka`	1.73
2	Xinjiang Wutulan Suodunbulake possible (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Wutulan_IA_Suodunbulake_possible`	1.84
3	Xinjiang Dongmaili (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Dongmaili_IA`	2.10
4	Saka (Iron Age, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_Saka_IA`	2.12
5	Saka Tian Shan (Iron Age) · Saka_Tian_Shan`Saka_Tian_Shan`	2.16
6	Xinjiang Simutasi (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Simutasi_IA`	2.39
7	Xinjiang Abusanteer (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Abusanteer_IA`	2.42
8	Xinjiang Kuokesuxi (Early Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Kuokesuxi_EIA`	2.47
9	Xinjiang Axile (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Axile_IA`	2.48
10	Xinjiang Wutulan (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Wutulan_IA`	2.49

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Tajik Tajikistan Hisor`Tajik_Tajikistan_Hisor`	6.82
2	Pamiri Sarikoli`Pamiri_Sarikoli`	6.82
3	Besermyan`Besermyan`	7.49
4	Tajik`Tajik`	7.51
5	Tajik Tajikistan Ayni`Tajik_Tajikistan_Ayni`	7.54
6	Tatar Lipka`Tatar_Lipka`	7.61
7	Pamiri Wakhi`Pamiri_Wakhi`	7.95
8	Tatar Kazan`Tatar_Kazan`	7.96
9	Udmurt`Udmurt`	8.06
10	Pamiri Badakhshan`Pamiri_Badakhshan`	8.14

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

J2b2a2b1a J-Y958

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

M3 2
A11

Individuals 7

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
`C3314`	`China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA`	F	400-200 BCE	Caishichang		M3
`C3315`	`China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA`	M	152-23 calBCE	Caishichang	J2b2a2b1a J-Y958	M3
`C3318.SG`	`China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA`	F	336-53 calBCE	Caishichang		A11
`C3312` outlier	`China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA`	M	350-0 BCE	Caishichang	E1b1b1a1 E-M78	T2b2
`C3317` outlier	`China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA`	F	350-0 BCE	Caishichang		D4j5
`C3319` outlier	`China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA_oWestEurasian`	M	800-1 BCE	Caishichang	Q1b1b Q-YP4004	U4a2
`C3320` outlier	`China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA_oWestEurasian`	M	400-200 BCE	Caishichang	J2 J-M410	U5b1b2