Ancient population · Medieval

Greenland W VA (Medieval)

Name: Greenland W VA (Medieval) (GreenlandW_VA)
Creator: Genoplot

GreenlandW_VA

Greenland W VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (GreenlandW_VA), with 3 samples from Sermersooq, Greenland, dated to c. 850–1220 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mid VA (Medieval), Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland) and Hiddestorf Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include H54 (2) and U5b.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 850–1220 CE
Country: Greenland
Origin: Sermersooq, Greenland
Sampled near: V051 64.44, -50.12
Sites: V051 (2)
V007
Samples: 3
Published in: MargaryanWillerslevNature2020
Catalogue: GreenlandW_VA

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	Mid VA (Medieval)`Mid_VA`	3.07
2	Early Norse (Medieval, Greenland)`Greenland_EarlyNorse`	3.19
3	Hiddestorf Saxon EMedieval (Medieval, Germany)`Germany_Hiddestorf_Saxon_EMedieval`	3.25
4	Sweden (Iron Age) · SWE_IA`SWE_IA`	3.28
5	Baiuvaric (Medieval)`MA_Baiuvaric`	3.31
6	Germany (Early Medieval)`Germany_EarlyMedieval`	3.34
7	Late Norse (Medieval, Greenland)`Greenland_LateNorse`	3.34
8	Greenland E VA (Medieval)`GreenlandE_VA`	3.37
9	Denmark (Iron Age)`Denmark_IA`	3.37
10	EM (Faroes)`Faroes_EM`	3.39

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Swedish`Swedish`	3.43
2	Norwegian`Norwegian`	3.44
3	Icelandic`Icelandic`	3.48
4	Danish`Danish`	3.50
5	Dutch`Dutch`	3.74
6	German Hamburg`German_Hamburg`	3.78
7	Shetlandic`Shetlandic`	3.80
8	Scottish`Scottish`	3.85
9	Orcadian`Orcadian`	3.87
10	English`English`	3.94

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a R-Y141037

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

H54 2
U5b1e1

Individuals 3

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`VK189`	F	1168-1271 calCE	V007		H54
`VK196`	F	771-957 calCE	V051		U5b1e1
`VK75`	M	893-1155 calCE	V051	R1b1a1b1a1a R-Y141037	H54