Modern population
Maori
Maori
Maori is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Maori), with 1 sample from Auckland, New Zealand.
Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Nogai Dobruja, Uzbek and Uygur, and among ancient ones Salkhit (Upper Paleolithic, Mongolia), Yana (Medieval) and Salkhit (Upper Paleolithic).
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a.
- Period
- Modern
- Country
- New Zealand
- Origin
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Sampled near
- -41.28, 174.45
- Samples
- 1
- Published in
- MallickReichNature2016
- Catalogue
Maori
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 | Nogai DobrujaNogai_Dobruja | 14.06 |
| 2 | UzbekUzbek | 14.07 |
| 3 | UygurUygur | 14.63 |
| 4 | Tatar Crimean steppeTatar_Crimean_steppe | 14.76 |
| 5 | Hazara AfghanistanHazara_Afghanistan | 14.88 |
| 6 | NogaiNogai | 15.18 |
| 7 | HazaraHazara | 15.79 |
| 8 | Turkmen UzbekistanTurkmen_Uzbekistan | 15.95 |
| 9 | BashkirBashkir | 16.12 |
| 10 | Tatar LipkaTatar_Lipka | 16.29 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salkhit (Upper Paleolithic, Mongolia)Mongolia_Salkhit_UP | 12.48 |
| 2 | Yana (Medieval)Yana_MA | 12.86 |
| 3 | Salkhit (Upper Paleolithic)Salkhit_UP | 13.18 |
| 4 | Yana (Upper Paleolithic)Yana_UP | 13.24 |
| 5 | Yana (Upper Paleolithic, Russia)Russia_Yana_UP | 13.37 |
| 6 | Khentii Xiongnu Late Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Khentii_XiongnuLateMedieval | 13.60 |
| 7 | Turk (Medieval, Kazakhstan) · KAZ_TurkKAZ_Turk | 13.93 |
| 8 | Turk (Medieval, Kazakhstan) · Kazakhstan_TurkKazakhstan_Turk | 14.11 |
| 9 | Mongun Taiga 3 (Late Bronze Age, Mongolia)Mongolia_LBA_MongunTaiga_3 | 14.36 |
| 10 | Xinjiang Xikakandasayi Historical (Antiquity, China)China_Xinjiang_Xikakandasayi_Historical | 14.36 |
Haplogroups
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 | Site | Y-DNA |
|---|---|---|---|
S_Maori-1 | M | New Zealand, modern | I2a1b1a1a1b I-Y64939 |