Ancient population · Iron Age

Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia)

Name: Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia) (Mongolia_Xiongnu)
Creator: Genoplot

Mongolia_Xiongnu

Xiongnu (Iron Age, Mongolia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mongolia_Xiongnu), with 5 samples from Mongolia, dated to c. 200 BCE – 10 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Xiongnu East Asian (Iron Age), WLR (Bronze Age, China) and NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China); the nearest living populations are Yugur, Mongola and Han Shanxi.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups L2, O2a and R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include D4b (2), D4a, G3a and N9a.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 200 BCE – 10 CE
Country: Mongolia
Origin: Mongolia
Sampled near: Omnogobi 46.32, 103.03
Sites: Omnogobi (2)
Unknown, IKh-Uul (2)
Unknown, IKh-Tamir
Samples: 5
Published in: DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
Catalogue: Mongolia_Xiongnu_o1.SG outliers
Mongolia_Xiongnu_o2.SG 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	Xiongnu East Asian (Iron Age)`Xiongnu_East_Asian`	0.52
2	WLR (Bronze Age, China)`China_WLR_BA`	3.16
3	NEast Asia Coastal (Early Neolithic, China)`China_NEastAsia_Coastal_EN`	3.43
4	Western Liao River (Bronze Age)`Western_Liao_River_BA`	3.52
5	Upper YR (Iron Age, China)`China_Upper_YR_IA`	3.92
6	Upper Yellow River (Iron Age)`Upper_Yellow_River_IA`	3.93
7	Heshui Mohe 1 (Early Medieval, Russia)`Russia_EarlyMedieval_Heshui_Mohe_1`	3.95
8	Xiaojingshan (Neolithic)`Xiaojingshan_N`	4.20
9	Bianbian (Neolithic)`Bianbian_N`	4.24
10	Yellow River LBIA (Iron Age)`Yellow_River_LBIA`	4.34

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Yugur`Yugur`	2.42
2	Mongola`Mongola`	2.94
3	Han Shanxi`Han_Shanxi`	3.21
4	Manchu Jinzhou`Manchu_Jinzhou`	3.35
5	Manchu`Manchu`	3.56
6	Tu`Tu`	3.58
7	Han Henan`Han_Henan`	3.88
8	Manchu Liaoning`Manchu_Liaoning`	3.99
9	Korean Antu`Korean_Antu`	4.11
10	Han Shandong`Han_Shandong`	4.16

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

L2 O-MF14338
O2a1b1a1a1a1e O-Y323927
R1a1a1 R-Y174827
R1b2b1 R-Y32792

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

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
`DA38_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Mongolia_Xiongnu_o2.SG`	F	345-52 calBCE	Unknown, IKh-Uul		D4b2b4
`DA39_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Mongolia_Xiongnu_o1.SG`	M	150 calBCE - 125 calCE	Unknown, IKh-Tamir	R1a1a1 R-Y174827	N9a2a
`DA41_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Mongolia_Xiongnu_o2.SG`	M	351-54 calBCE	Unknown, IKh-Uul	R1b2b1 R-Y32792	G3a3
`DA43_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Mongolia_Xiongnu_o1.SG`	M	400 BCE - 100 CE	Omnogobi	O2a1b1a1a1a1e O-Y323927	D4a6
`DA45_noUDG.SG` outlier	`Mongolia_Xiongnu_o1.SG`	M	172 calBCE - 3 calCE	Omnogobi	L2 O-MF14338	D4b2b2b