Modern population

Iranian Jew

Iranian_Jew

Iranian Jew is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iranian_Jew), with 15 samples from Isfahan, Iran.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Mountain Jew Dagestan, Mountain Jew Azerbaijan and Kurdish Jew, and among ancient ones Mountain Jew, Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA and Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age).

Period
Modern
Country
Iran
Origin
Isfahan, Iran
Sampled near
Tehran 35.70, 51.42
Samples
15
Catalogue
Iranian_Jew

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
#PopulationDistance
1Mountain Jew DagestanMountain_Jew_Dagestan1.40
2Mountain Jew AzerbaijanMountain_Jew_Azerbaijan1.71
3Kurdish JewKurdish_Jew1.90
4Iraqi JewIraqi_Jew2.11
5AssyrianAssyrian2.15
6Chaldean IraqChaldean_Iraq2.20
7Mountain Jew ChechnyaMountain_Jew_Chechnya2.23
8Nash Didan Jew UrmiaNash_Didan_Jew_Urmia2.30
9Georgian JewGeorgian_Jew2.36
10Iraqi Arab WestIraqi_Arab_West2.40
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Mountain JewMountain_Jew2.17
2Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IATurkey_IA2.88
3Dinkha Tepe BIA A (Bronze Age)DinkhaTepe_BIA_A2.93
4Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_SoutheastByzantine3.03
5Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_PostMedieval3.03
6Hasanlu (Iron Age)Hasanlu_IA3.06
7Hasanlu 2 (Late Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_Hasanlu_LBA_23.19
8Hasanlu B (Late Bronze Age)Hasanlu_LBA_B3.27
9Late Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)Armenia_LateHellenistic3.57
10Turkey (Medieval)Turkey_Medieval3.61

Individuals 15

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.

SampleSexSite
GRC12118101Isfahan, Iran
GRC12118121Isfahan, Iran
IranianJew1132FIran, modern 2
IranianJew1143MIran, modern 2
IranianJew1159MIran, modern 2
IranianJew1409FIran, modern 2
IranianJew1513FIran, modern 2
IranianJew1556FIran, modern 2
IranianJew1557FIran, modern 2
IranianJew1832MIran, modern 2
IranianJew1845MIran, modern 2
IranJew1419Isfahan, Iran
IranJew1425Isfahan, Iran
IranJew4485Isfahan, Iran
IranJew4685Isfahan, Iran