Ancient population · Iron Age
Wusun (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_Wusun
KAZ_Wusun
Wusun (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_Wusun is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (KAZ_Wusun), with 2 samples from Turkistan, Kazakhstan, dated to about 250 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Xinjiang Simutasi (Iron Age, China), Wusun (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Wusun and Xinjiang Abusanteer (Iron Age, China); the nearest living populations are Tajik Rushan, Tajik Shugnan and Tajik Tajikistan Hisor.
Its mtDNA haplogroup is U5b.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- about 250 BCE
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Origin
- Turkistan, Kazakhstan
- Sampled near
- Turgen-2 43.22, 77.85
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
- Catalogue
KAZ_Wusun
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xinjiang Simutasi (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Simutasi_IA | 2.81 |
| 2 | Wusun (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_WusunKazakhstan_Wusun | 2.92 |
| 3 | Xinjiang Abusanteer (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Abusanteer_IA | 2.97 |
| 4 | Xinjiang Tielieketesai 1 (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Tielieketesai_IA_1 | 3.46 |
| 5 | Xinjiang Hetian Historical (Antiquity, China)China_Xinjiang_Hetian_Historical | 3.58 |
| 6 | Xinjiang Wuzan (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Wuzan_IA | 3.64 |
| 7 | Molaly (Late Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)Kazakhstan_LBA_Molaly | 3.65 |
| 8 | Xinjiang Ayousaigoukou (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Ayousaigoukou_IA | 3.68 |
| 9 | Kangju (Antiquity, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_KangjuKazakhstan_Kangju | 4.04 |
| 10 | Xinjiang Caishichang (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Caishichang_IA | 4.06 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tajik RushanTajik_Rushan | 5.58 |
| 2 | Tajik ShugnanTajik_Shugnan | 5.63 |
| 3 | Tajik Tajikistan HisorTajik_Tajikistan_Hisor | 5.67 |
| 4 | Pamiri RushanPamiri_Rushan | 5.71 |
| 5 | Pamiri ShugnanPamiri_Shugnan | 5.74 |
| 6 | Pamiri BadakhshanPamiri_Badakhshan | 6.02 |
| 7 | TajikTajik | 6.08 |
| 8 | Pamiri SarikoliPamiri_Sarikoli | 6.15 |
| 9 | Tajik Tajikistan KulobTajik_Tajikistan_Kulob | 6.20 |
| 10 | Tajik Tajikistan AyniTajik_Tajikistan_Ayni | 6.37 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 4
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.