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Early Modern (Faroes)

Faroes_EarlyModern

Early Modern (Faroes) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Faroes_EarlyModern), with 9 samples from Faroe Islands, dated to c. 1600 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to EM (Faroes), Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands) and Saxon (Medieval, England); the nearest living populations are Scottish, Orcadian and Danish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1a (4) and R1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include H3a (3), H17, H1ap and H2a.

Period
Ancient
Date
c. 1600 CE
Sampled near
Church 2 61.85, -6.80
Samples
9
Catalogue
Faroes_EarlyModern.SG variant
Faroes_EarlyModern_o1.SG outliers
Faroes_EarlyModern_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
#PopulationDistance
1EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM0.73
2Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands)Netherlands_Groningen_Saxon_Medieval1.06
3Saxon (Medieval, England)England_Saxon1.18
4England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval1.31
5Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon1.33
6Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA1.35
7Schleswig Saxon LMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Schleswig_Saxon_LMedieval1.49
8Collegno (Medieval)Collegno_MA1.49
9Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)Greenland_EarlyNorse1.55
10England (Iron Age)England_IA1.56
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1ScottishScottish1.09
2OrcadianOrcadian1.16
3DanishDanish1.29
4IcelandicIcelandic1.30
5NorwegianNorwegian1.36
6IrishIrish1.38
7EnglishEnglish1.50
8WelshWelsh1.56
9ShetlandicShetlandic1.59
10English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall1.61

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

7 men with a call

mtDNA

9 individuals with a call

Individuals 11

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
VK237_noUDG.SGFaroes_EarlyModern.SGM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1 R-Z283J2a2c
VK238_noUDG.SGFaroes_EarlyModern.SGM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1 R-M417H3a1a
VK240_noUDG.SGFaroes_EarlyModern.SGF1500-1700 CEChurch 2H1ap1
VK241_noUDG.SGFaroes_EarlyModern.SGF1500-1700 CEChurch 2H17
VK242_noUDG.SGFaroes_EarlyModern.SGM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1f1a1 R-S764H3a1a
VK244_noUDG.SGFaroes_EarlyModern.SGM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1 R-Z283H2a2a2
VK25_noUDG.SGFaroes_EarlyModern.SGM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1b1a1b1a1a3b1a R-BY11764H3a1a
VK27_noUDG.SGFaroes_EarlyModern.SGM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151U5a1g1
VK46_noUDG.SGFaroes_EarlyModern.SGM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1b1a3a2b1a R-BY203535H5
VK245_noUDG.SG outlierFaroes_EarlyModern_o1.SGM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1b1a3a2b R-S6244H3a1
VK44_noUDG.SG outlierFaroes_EarlyModern_o2.SGM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1b1a1b R-M269H3a1a