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EM (Faroes)

Faroes_EM

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

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Early Modern (Faroes), Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands) and Greenland E VA (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Scottish, Orcadian and Icelandic.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1a (4) and R1b (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include H3a (6), H1ap, H5 and J2a.

Period
Ancient
Date
c. 1600 CE
Origin
Sandoy, Faroe Islands
Sampled near
Church 2 61.85, -6.80
Samples
9
Catalogue
Faroes_EM

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
1Early Modern (Faroes)Faroes_EarlyModern0.73
2Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands)Netherlands_Groningen_Saxon_Medieval1.17
3Greenland E VA (Medieval)GreenlandE_VA1.18
4Saxon (Medieval, England)England_Saxon1.24
5England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval1.28
6Schleswig Saxon LMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Schleswig_Saxon_LMedieval1.30
7Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)Greenland_EarlyNorse1.34
8Saxon (Early Medieval, England)England_EarlyMedieval_Saxon1.36
9Collegno (Medieval)Collegno_MA1.41
10Hofstadir VA (Medieval)Hofstadir_VA1.44
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1ScottishScottish1.04
2OrcadianOrcadian1.08
3IcelandicIcelandic1.28
4IrishIrish1.31
5NorwegianNorwegian1.35
6DanishDanish1.36
7EnglishEnglish1.53
8DutchDutch1.58
9WelshWelsh1.65
10English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall1.66

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

7 men with a call

mtDNA

9 individuals with a call

Individuals 15

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
VK234M1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1b1a1b1a1a2e1 R-Z43162H3a1a
VK236F1500-1700 CEChurch 2H3a1a
VK237M1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1 R-Z283J2a2c
VK238M1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1 R-M417H3a1a
VK240F1500-1700 CEChurch 2H1ap1
VK242M1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1f1a1 R-S764H3a1a
VK245M1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1b1a3a2b R-S6244H3a1
VK25M1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1b1a1b1a1a3b1a R-BY11764H3a1a
VK46M1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1b1a3a2b1a R-BY203535H5
VK241 outlierF1500-1700 CEChurch 2H17
VK244 outlierM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1 R-Z283H2a2a2
VK248 outlierM1500-1700 CEChurch 2I1 I1H49a
VK27 outlierM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151U5a1g1
VK44 outlierM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1b1a1b R-M269H3a1a
VK45 outlierM1500-1700 CEChurch 2R1a1a1 R-M417H3a1