Ancient population · Medieval

Malmo VA (Medieval)

Malmo_VA

Malmo VA (Medieval) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Malmo_VA), with 2 samples from Scania, Sweden, dated to c. 1000 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age), England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age) and Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Germany); the nearest living populations are Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b; its mtDNA haplogroups include J1b and J2b.

Period
Medieval
Date
c. 1000 CE
Country
Sweden
Origin
Scania, Sweden
Sampled near
Ljungbacka 55.54, 13.05
Samples
2
Catalogue
Malmo_VA

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
#PopulationDistance
1Netherlands (Middle Bronze Age)Netherlands_MBA1.82
2England (Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age)England_C_EBA2.13
3Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Germany)Germany_EBA_Unetice2.13
4England (Middle Bronze Age)England_MBA2.21
5Unetice (Early Bronze Age, Czech)Czech_EBA_Unetice2.21
6Ladoga VA (Medieval)Ladoga_VA2.27
7Skara VA (Medieval)Skara_VA2.27
8Pre Christian (Iceland)Iceland_Pre_Christian2.29
9Viking (Medieval, Iceland)Iceland_Viking2.30
10Hofstadir VA (Medieval)Hofstadir_VA2.30
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1SwedishSwedish2.27
2NorwegianNorwegian2.28
3DanishDanish2.52
4IcelandicIcelandic2.57
5OrcadianOrcadian2.89
6German HamburgGerman_Hamburg2.97
7ShetlandicShetlandic3.06
8ScottishScottish3.08
9DutchDutch3.16
10IrishIrish3.26

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

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.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
VK108F800-1200 CELjungbackaJ2b1a
VK217M800-1200 CELjungbackaR1b1a1b1a1a R-L151J1b1b1