Modern population

Iyer

Iyer

Iyer is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Iyer), with 20 samples from Tamil Nadu, India.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Brahmin Tamil Nadu Iyer, Nair and Brahmin Kerala Nambudiri, and among ancient ones Baniya Chettiar Kerala, Roopkund A (Medieval, India) and Katelai (Late Bronze Age).

Period
Modern
Country
India
Origin
Tamil Nadu, India
Sampled near
Tamil Nadu 13.21, 80.30
Samples
20
Catalogue
Iyer

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
1Brahmin Tamil Nadu IyerBrahmin_Tamil_Nadu_Iyer0.00
2NairNair1.08
3Brahmin Kerala NambudiriBrahmin_Kerala_Nambudiri1.36
4Brahmin Telugu VaidikiBrahmin_Telugu_Vaidiki1.37
5Poduval Kerala NorthPoduval_Kerala_North1.48
6Brahmin Tamil NaduBrahmin_Tamil_Nadu1.52
7GujaratiGujarati1.68
8Punjabi LahorePunjabi_Lahore1.70
9ManiyaniManiyani1.70
10Konkani CatholicKonkani_Catholic1.70
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Baniya Chettiar KeralaBaniya_Chettiar_Kerala2.31
2Roopkund A (Medieval, India)India_RoopkundA2.40
3Katelai (Late Bronze Age)Katelai_LBA4.81
4Shahr I Sokhta BA2 (Bronze Age)Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA24.94
5Rajput Madhya Pradesh NorthRajput_Madhya_Pradesh_North5.13
6Telugu GBRTelugu_GBR5.26
7Indus P (Bronze Age)Indus_P5.28
8Brahmin Himachal Pradesh WestBrahmin_Himachal_Pradesh_West5.48
9Shahr ISokhta BA2 (Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA25.55
10Aligrama (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Aligrama_IA5.75

Individuals 20

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

SampleOrigin
IR-1-1Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-10Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-11Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-12Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-13Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-14Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-15Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-17Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-18Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-19Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-2Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-20Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-21Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-22Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-4Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-5Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-6Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-7Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-8Tamil Nadu, India
IR-1-9Tamil Nadu, India