Modern population

Kalmyk

Name: Kalmyk (Kalmyk)
Creator: Genoplot

Kalmyk

Kalmyk is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kalmyk), with 5 samples from Kalmykia, Russia.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Mongolian, Mongol Xinjiang and Mongol, and among ancient ones Xinjiang Ayousaigoukou Historical (Antiquity, China), Khovd (Late Medieval, Mongolia) and Sukhbaatar Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia).

Period: Modern
Country: Russia
Origin: Kalmykia, Russia
Sampled near: Republic of Kalmykia 46.17, 45.34
Samples: 5
Published in: LazaridisKrauseNature2014
Catalogue: Kalmyk

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	Mongolian`Mongolian`	1.21
2	Mongol Xinjiang`Mongol_Xinjiang`	1.94
3	Mongol`Mongol`	3.00
4	Buryat`Buryat`	4.01
5	Altaian Kizhi`Altaian_Kizhi`	5.25
6	Mogush`Mogush`	5.78
7	Kazakh China`Kazakh_China`	5.79
8	Altaian`Altaian`	5.88
9	Khamnegan`Khamnegan`	6.12
10	Mongol Inner Mongolia`Mongol_Inner_Mongolia`	6.27

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Xinjiang Ayousaigoukou Historical (Antiquity, China)`China_Xinjiang_Ayousaigoukou_Historical`	4.07
2	Khovd (Late Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Khovd_LateMedieval`	4.10
3	Sukhbaatar Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Sukhbaatar_Xiongnu`	4.21
4	Mongolia (Medieval)`MNG_MA`	4.54
5	Nomad (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan)`Kyrgyzstan_Medieval_Nomad`	4.89
6	Hun Elite (Late Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Hun_Elite_LIA`	4.89
7	Sukhbaatar Xiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Sukhbaatar_XiongnuLateMedieval`	4.99
8	Mongol (Mongolia)`MNG_Mongol`	5.09
9	Nomad HP (Antiquity, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Nomad_HP`	5.42
10	Nomad HP (Antiquity)`Nomad_HP`	5.44

Individuals 5

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	Site
`kalmyk11`	M	Yashkul
`kalmyk13`	M	Yashkul
`kalmyk14`	M	Yashkul
`kalmyk22`	M	Yashkul
`kalmyk9`	M	Yashkul