Ancient population · Iron Age
Xinjiang Unknown (Iron Age, China)
China_Xinjiang_Unknown_IA
Xinjiang Unknown (Iron Age, China) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (China_Xinjiang_Unknown_IA), with 1 sample from China, dated to c. 400 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Xinjiang Jirentaigoukou Historical (Antiquity, China), Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 2 (Medieval, Mongolia) and Nomad (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Teleut, Khakass Kachins and Khakass.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is D4j.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 400 BCE
- Country
- China
- Sampled near
- Unknown, Xinjiang 41.11, 85.24
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- KumarFuScience2022
- Catalogue
China_Xinjiang_Unknown_IA
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 | Xinjiang Jirentaigoukou Historical (Antiquity, China)China_Xinjiang_Jirentaigoukou_Historical | 3.44 |
| 2 | Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 2 (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khuvsgul_XiongnuLateMedieval_2 | 4.34 |
| 3 | Nomad (Medieval)Nomad_MA | 4.48 |
| 4 | Early Avar Elite (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_EarlyAvar_Elite | 4.62 |
| 5 | Birlik (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_Birlik_IA | 4.62 |
| 6 | Sukhbaatar Xiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Sukhbaatar_XiongnuLateMedieval | 5.05 |
| 7 | Danube Tisza Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary)Hungary_DanubeTisza_LAvar | 5.48 |
| 8 | Early Xiongnu rest (Iron Age)Early_Xiongnu_rest | 5.78 |
| 9 | Early Avar leader (Medieval)early_Avar_leader | 5.79 |
| 10 | Munkhkhairkhan 3 (Middle Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_MBA_Munkhkhairkhan_3 | 5.80 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TeleutTeleut | 3.16 |
| 2 | Khakass KachinsKhakass_Kachins | 3.40 |
| 3 | KhakassKhakass | 3.61 |
| 4 | AltaianAltaian | 4.15 |
| 5 | Altaian KizhiAltaian_Kizhi | 4.86 |
| 6 | ShorShor | 5.60 |
| 7 | KirghizKirghiz | 5.93 |
| 8 | Kirghiz ChinaKirghiz_China | 6.15 |
| 9 | Kazakh ChinaKazakh_China | 6.21 |
| 10 | Kazakh XinjiangKazakh_Xinjiang | 6.24 |
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.