Modern population

Georgian Meskheti

Name: Georgian Meskheti (Georgian_Meskheti)
Creator: Genoplot

Georgian_Meskheti

Georgian Meskheti is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Georgian_Meskheti), with 5 samples from Samtskhe–Javakheti, Georgia.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Armenian Gurin, Armenian and Armenian Ararat, and among ancient ones Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia), Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia) and Armenia (Early Medieval).

Period: Modern
Country: Georgia
Origin: Samtskhe–Javakheti, Georgia
Sampled near: Tbilisi 41.72, 44.79
Samples: 5
Catalogue: Georgian_Meskheti

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.

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Armenian Gurin`Armenian_Gurin`	1.66
2	Armenian`Armenian`	2.10
3	Armenian Ararat`Armenian_Ararat`	2.11
4	Armenian Erzurum`Armenian_Erzurum`	2.12
5	Armenian Syunik`Armenian_Syunik`	2.30
6	Armenian Gesaria`Armenian_Gesaria`	2.33
7	Armenian Aintab`Armenian_Aintab`	2.33
8	Armenian Hemsheni`Armenian_Hemsheni`	2.59
9	Turkish Trabzon`Turkish_Trabzon`	2.60
10	Armenian Urfa`Armenian_Urfa`	2.63

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian`	1.78
2	Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible`	2.45
3	Armenia (Early Medieval)`Armenia_EarlyMedieval`	2.59
4	Beniamin Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Hellenistic`	2.64
5	Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible`	2.81
6	Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA`Turkey_IA`	2.87
7	SE Gaziantep Byzantine (Medieval)`SE_Gaziantep_Byz`	2.90
8	Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_SoutheastByzantine`	2.94
9	Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_PostMedieval`	3.21
10	Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age, Iran)`Iran_Hasanlu_MBA`	3.22

Individuals 5

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

Sample	Origin
`MSKH1`	Samtskhe–Javakheti, Georgia
`MSKH2`	Samtskhe–Javakheti, Georgia
`MSKH3`	Samtskhe–Javakheti, Georgia
`MSKH4`	Samtskhe–Javakheti, Georgia
`MSKH5`	Samtskhe–Javakheti, Georgia