Modern population

Kirghiz China

Name: Kirghiz China (Kirghiz_China)
Creator: Genoplot

Kirghiz_China

Kirghiz China is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kirghiz_China), with 7 samples from Xinjiang, Kyrgyzstan.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Kirghiz, Kazakh Xinjiang and Kirghiz Tajikistan Pamir, and among ancient ones Xinjiang Kalatasi (Iron Age, China), Arkhangai (Late Medieval, Mongolia) and Nomad (Medieval).

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups R1a (3), N and N1c.

Period: Modern
Country: Kyrgyzstan
Origin: Xinjiang, Kyrgyzstan
Sampled near: Naryn 40.66, 76.00
Samples: 7
Published in: WangReichNature2021
Catalogue: Kirghiz_China

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	Kirghiz`Kirghiz`	1.16
2	Kazakh Xinjiang`Kazakh_Xinjiang`	2.37
3	Kirghiz Tajikistan Pamir`Kirghiz_Tajikistan_Pamir`	2.45
4	Kazakh China`Kazakh_China`	2.57
5	Kazakh`Kazakh`	4.10
6	Teleut`Teleut`	5.11
7	Altaian`Altaian`	5.73
8	Altaian Kizhi`Altaian_Kizhi`	6.32
9	Khakass Kachins`Khakass_Kachins`	6.33
10	Khakass`Khakass`	6.58

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Xinjiang Kalatasi (Iron Age, China)`China_Xinjiang_Kalatasi_IA`	3.10
2	Arkhangai (Late Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Arkhangai_LateMedieval`	3.21
3	Nomad (Medieval)`Nomad_MA`	3.85
4	Selenge Xiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Selenge_XiongnuLateMedieval`	3.95
5	Xinjiang Jirentaigoukou Historical (Antiquity, China)`China_Xinjiang_Jirentaigoukou_Historical`	4.38
6	Sukhbaatar Xiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Sukhbaatar_XiongnuLateMedieval`	4.52
7	Mongol (Mongolia)`MNG_Mongol`	4.64
8	Arkhangai Xiongnu Early Medieval 3 (Medieval, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Arkhangai_XiongnuEarlyMedieval_3`	4.70
9	Xinjiang Baiyanghe Historical (Antiquity, China)`China_Xinjiang_Baiyanghe_Historical`	5.40
10	Early Avar Elite (Medieval, Hungary)`Hungary_EarlyAvar_Elite`	5.64

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

6 men with a call

Individuals 13

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.

Sample	Sex	Site	Y-DNA
`KZ46`	F	Xinjiang
`KZ52`	M	Xinjiang	N
`KZ65`	M	Xinjiang	R1a1a1
`KZ73`	M	Xinjiang	R1a1a1
`KZ78`	M	Xinjiang	R1b1
`KZ83`	M	Xinjiang	N1c1
`KZ87`	M	Xinjiang	R1a1a1
`KZ12` outlier	M	Xinjiang	R1a1a1
`KZ15` outlier	M	Xinjiang	J2a1h
`KZ22` outlier	M	Xinjiang	R1a1a1
`KZ35` outlier	M	Xinjiang	R1a1a1
`KZ77` outlier	M	Xinjiang	R1b1
`KZ81` outlier	M	Xinjiang	R1a1a1