Ancient population · Neolithic

Latvia (Middle Neolithic)

Name: Latvia (Middle Neolithic) (Latvia_MN)
Creator: Genoplot

Latvia_MN

Latvia (Middle Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Latvia_MN), with 2 samples from Latvia, dated to c. 4210 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Latvia (Hunter-Gatherer), Motala (Hunter-Gatherer, Sweden) and Sweden (Mesolithic) · Sweden_Mesolithic; the nearest living populations are Latvian, Lithuanian SZ and Lithuanian PZ.

Its mtDNA haplogroup is U5a.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 4210 BCE
Country: Latvia
Sampled near: Zvejnieki 56.28, 25.13
Samples: 2
Published in: MathiesonReichNature2018
Catalogue: Latvia_MN
Latvia_MN_o3 outliers
Latvia_MN_o1.SG outliers
Latvia_MN_o2 outliers

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	Latvia (Hunter-Gatherer)`Latvia_HG`	2.74
2	Motala (Hunter-Gatherer, Sweden)`Sweden_Motala_HG`	3.71
3	Sweden (Mesolithic) · Sweden_Mesolithic`Sweden_Mesolithic`	3.79
4	Iron Gates (Mesolithic, Romania)`Romania_IronGates_Mesolithic`	3.83
5	Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Estonia)`Estonia_EMN_Narva`	4.21
6	Narva (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)`Lithuania_EMN_Narva`	4.23
7	Sweden (Mesolithic) · SWE_Meso`SWE_Meso`	4.49
8	Narva twin Kretuonas2 (Early–Middle Neolithic, Lithuania)`Lithuania_EMN_Narva_twin.Kretuonas2`	4.83
9	Iron Gates (Hunter-Gatherer)`Iron_Gates_HG`	5.66
10	Vlasac Late Mesolithic (Hunter-Gatherer, Serbia)`Serbia_Vlasac_LateMesolithic`	5.73

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Latvian`Latvian`	21.15
2	Lithuanian SZ`Lithuanian_SZ`	21.35
3	Lithuanian PZ`Lithuanian_PZ`	21.40
4	Finnish East`Finnish_East`	21.44
5	Estonian`Estonian`	21.46
6	Karelian`Karelian`	21.58
7	Finnish Southeast`Finnish_Southeast`	21.64
8	Ingrian`Ingrian`	21.80
9	Finnish`Finnish`	21.90
10	Finnish Central`Finnish_Central`	21.98

Haplogroups

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

U5a1d2

Individuals 6

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	Catalogue entry	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I4437`	`Latvia_MN`	F	4330-4057 calBCE	Zvejnieki		U5a1d2
`I4627`	`Latvia_MN`
`I4435` outlier	`Latvia_MN_o3`	F	4214-3958 calBCE	Zvejnieki		U4a1
`I4436` outlier	`Latvia_MN_o2`	M	4318-4051 calBCE	Zvejnieki	R1b1a1a R-FTA35755	U4a1
`I4554` outlier	`Latvia_MN_o3`	F	4048-3951 calBCE	Zvejnieki		U4d1
`Latvia_MN1_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Latvia_MN_o1.SG`