Ancient population · Iron Age
Wusun (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Wusun
Kazakhstan_Wusun
Wusun (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Wusun is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kazakhstan_Wusun), with 2 samples from Kazakhstan, dated to c. 250 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Xinjiang Tielieketesai 1 (Iron Age, China), Wusun (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_Wusun and Kangju (Antiquity, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_Kangju; the nearest living populations are Tajik Rushan, Pamiri Rushan and Tajik Shugnan.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup N; its mtDNA haplogroup is HV6.
- Period
- Iron Age
- Date
- c. 250 BCE
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Sampled near
- Turgen-2 43.22, 77.85
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
- Catalogue
Kazakhstan_Wusun.SGvariant
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 Tielieketesai 1 (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Tielieketesai_IA_1 | 2.63 |
| 2 | Wusun (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_WusunKAZ_Wusun | 2.92 |
| 3 | Kangju (Antiquity, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_KangjuKazakhstan_Kangju | 3.74 |
| 4 | Kangju (Antiquity, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_KangjuKAZ_Kangju | 3.82 |
| 5 | Xinjiang Hetian Historical (Antiquity, China)China_Xinjiang_Hetian_Historical | 4.42 |
| 6 | Xinjiang Songshugou (Late Bronze Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Songshugou_LBA | 4.45 |
| 7 | Chanchar2 Early Sarmatian (Iron Age)Chanchar2_Early_Sarmatian | 4.55 |
| 8 | Kazakhstann Otrar Culture (Late Iron Age)Kazakhstann_OtrarCulture_LIA | 4.67 |
| 9 | Xinjiang Ayousaigoukou (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Ayousaigoukou_IA | 4.68 |
| 10 | Sarmatian (Iron Age, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_SarmatianKAZ_Sarmatian | 4.89 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tajik RushanTajik_Rushan | 4.18 |
| 2 | Pamiri RushanPamiri_Rushan | 4.34 |
| 3 | Tajik ShugnanTajik_Shugnan | 4.63 |
| 4 | Pamiri ShugnanPamiri_Shugnan | 4.76 |
| 5 | Pamiri BadakhshanPamiri_Badakhshan | 5.15 |
| 6 | Tajik Tajikistan KulobTajik_Tajikistan_Kulob | 5.64 |
| 7 | TajikTajik | 5.77 |
| 8 | Pamiri IshkashimPamiri_Ishkashim | 5.79 |
| 9 | Tajik YaghnobiTajik_Yaghnobi | 5.85 |
| 10 | Tajik Tajikistan HisorTajik_Tajikistan_Hisor | 5.86 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
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.