Ancient population · Medieval

Hun Elite (Late Iron Age, Kazakhstan)

Name: Hun Elite (Late Iron Age, Kazakhstan) (Kazakhstan_Hun_Elite_LIA)
Creator: Genoplot

Kazakhstan_Hun_Elite_LIA

Hun Elite (Late Iron Age, Kazakhstan) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Hun_Elite_LIA), with 1 sample from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 400 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 2 (Medieval, Mongolia), Sukhbaatar Xiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia) and Xinjiang Ayousaigoukou Historical (Antiquity, China); the nearest living populations are Altaian Kizhi, Altaian and Mongol Xinjiang.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a; its mtDNA haplogroup is D4j.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 400 CE
Country: Kazakhstan
Sampled near: Kurayly 50.47, 57.06
Samples: 1
Published in: Gnecchi-RusconeKrauseSciAdv2021
Catalogue: Kazakhstan_Hun_Elite_LIA

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Khuvsgul Xiongnu Late Medieval 2 (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Khuvsgul_XiongnuLateMedieval_2`	3.51
2	Sukhbaatar Xiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Sukhbaatar_XiongnuLateMedieval`	3.89
3	Xinjiang Ayousaigoukou Historical (Antiquity, China)`China_Xinjiang_Ayousaigoukou_Historical`	4.56
4	Birlik (Iron Age, Kazakhstan)`Kazakhstan_Birlik_IA`	4.70
5	Mongolia (Bronze Age)`MNG_BA`	4.75
6	Early Xiongnu rest (Iron Age)`Early_Xiongnu_rest`	4.78
7	Mongol (Mongolia)`MNG_Mongol`	5.10
8	Danube Tisza Late Avar (Medieval, Hungary)`Hungary_DanubeTisza_LAvar`	5.10
9	Khovd (Late Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Khovd_LateMedieval`	5.17
10	Center West 4 (Late Bronze Age)`Center_West_LBA_4`	5.18

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Altaian Kizhi`Altaian_Kizhi`	4.05
2	Altaian`Altaian`	4.09
3	Mongol Xinjiang`Mongol_Xinjiang`	4.37
4	Mongolian`Mongolian`	4.73
5	Kalmyk`Kalmyk`	4.89
6	Kazakh China`Kazakh_China`	4.94
7	Khakass Kachins`Khakass_Kachins`	5.02
8	Mogush`Mogush`	6.14
9	Kirghiz`Kirghiz`	6.41
10	Kirghiz China`Kirghiz_China`	6.58

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1a1a1b2a2a3c2 R-YP5505

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

D4j11

Individuals 1

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	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`KRY001`	M	364-423 calCE	Kurayly	R1a1a1b2a2a3c2 R-YP5505	D4j11