Ancient population · Medieval

Honshu Kofun (Medieval, Japan)

Japan_Honshu_Kofun

Honshu Kofun (Medieval, Japan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Japan_Honshu_Kofun), with 3 samples from Japan, dated to c. 570–630 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Gimhae Daeseong Dong Three Kingdoms (Antiquity, South Korea), Gimhae Yuha Ri Three Kingdoms (Antiquity, South Korea) and Nagabaka historic (Antiquity, Japan); the nearest living populations are Japanese, Korean and Korean Antu.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include B5a, D5c and M7b.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 570–630 CE
Country
Japan
Sampled near
Iwade horizontal Cave tombs 36.62, 136.70
Samples
3
Catalogue
Japan_Honshu_Kofun.SG variant

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
1Gimhae Daeseong Dong Three Kingdoms (Antiquity, South Korea)SouthKorea_Gimhae_DaeseongDong_ThreeKingdoms1.63
2Gimhae Yuha Ri Three Kingdoms (Antiquity, South Korea)SouthKorea_Gimhae_YuhaRi_ThreeKingdoms2.64
3Nagabaka historic (Antiquity, Japan)Japan_Nagabaka_historic4.04
4Bianbian (Neolithic)Bianbian_N4.76
5NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China)China_NEastAsia_Coastal_EN4.76
6Selenge Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_Selenge_Xiongnu5.02
7Xiaojingshan (Neolithic)Xiaojingshan_N5.25
8Xiaogao (Neolithic)Xiaogao_N5.30
9Western Liao River (Bronze Age)Western_Liao_River_BA5.32
10WLR (Bronze Age, China)China_WLR_BA5.36
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1JapaneseJapanese1.50
2KoreanKorean3.30
3Korean AntuKorean_Antu3.43
4ManchuManchu4.94
5Manchu JinzhouManchu_Jinzhou5.12
6Han ShandongHan_Shandong5.29
7Han HenanHan_Henan5.34
8Manchu LiaoningManchu_Liaoning5.37
9Han ShanxiHan_Shanxi5.56
10Han JiangsuHan_Jiangsu6.12

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
JpIw31.SGF573-647 calCEIwade horizontal Cave tombsD5c1a
JpIw32.SGM541-603 calCEIwade horizontal Cave tombsO2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-Y61898B5a2a1b
JpIw33.SGF595-655 calCEIwade horizontal Cave tombsM7b1a1a1