Modern population

Karelian

Karelian

Karelian is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Karelian), with 33 samples from Karelia, Russia.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Vepsian, Finnish East and Russian Krasnoborsky, and among ancient ones Baltic (Iron Age, Estonia), Estonia (Iron Age) and Himera 480BCE 3 (Iron Age, Sicily).

Period
Modern
Country
Russia
Origin
Karelia, Russia
Sampled near
Northern Ostrobothnia 65.91, 29.93
Sites
Prionezhsky and Olonets Districts (8)
Kalevala District (6)
Samples
33
Catalogue
Karelian

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
1VepsianVepsian0.97
2Finnish EastFinnish_East1.04
3Russian KrasnoborskyRussian_Krasnoborsky1.75
4IngrianIngrian1.94
5Russian PinegaRussian_Pinega1.95
6Finnish CentralFinnish_Central1.95
7Finnish NorthFinnish_North2.09
8Russian PinezhskyRussian_Pinezhsky2.19
9FinnishFinnish2.35
10Russian KostromaRussian_Kostroma2.51
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Baltic (Iron Age, Estonia)Baltic_EST_IA4.44
2Estonia (Iron Age)Estonia_IA4.52
3Himera 480BCE 3 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_35.61
4Ingria (Iron Age, Russia)Russia_IA_Ingria5.71
5Viking (Medieval, Ukraine)Ukraine_Viking5.97
6Baltic (Medieval, Estonia)Baltic_EST_MA5.98
7Kurevanikha VA (Medieval)Kurevanikha_VA6.02
8Estonia (Medieval)Estonia_Medieval6.05
9Ingria (Iron Age)Ingria_IA6.17
10Bodzia VA (Medieval)Bodzia_VA6.28

Individuals 33

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
GS000013765Karelia, Russia
GS000016970Karelia, Russia
KAR-005MPrionezhsky and Olonets Districts
KAR-009MPrionezhsky and Olonets Districts
KAR-030MPrionezhsky and Olonets Districts
KAR-034MPrionezhsky and Olonets Districts
KAR-046MPrionezhsky and Olonets Districts
KAR-092MPrionezhsky and Olonets Districts
KAR-105MKalevala District
KAR-110MKalevala District
KAR-111MKalevala District
KAR-131MKalevala District
KAR-157MPrionezhsky and Olonets Districts
KAR-165MKalevala District
KAR-167MKalevala District
KAR-173MPrionezhsky and Olonets Districts
karelia1Karelia, Russia
Karelia10Karelia, Russia
Karelia11Karelia, Russia
Karelia12Karelia, Russia
Karelia13Karelia, Russia
Karelia14Karelia, Russia
Karelia15Karelia, Russia
Karelia16Karelia, Russia
Karelia17Karelia, Russia
karelia2Karelia, Russia
karelia3Karelia, Russia
karelia4Karelia, Russia
karelia5Karelia, Russia
karelia6Karelia, Russia
karelia7Karelia, Russia
karelia8Karelia, Russia
karelia9Karelia, Russia