Ancient population · Iron Age

Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)

Name: Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal) (Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP)
Creator: Genoplot

Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP

Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP), with 1 sample from Nepal, dated to c. 820 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP), Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal) and Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal); the nearest living populations are Rai, Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling and Sherpa.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O2a; its mtDNA haplogroup is D4j.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 820 BCE
Country: Nepal
Sampled near: Chokhopani Tomb 28.72, 83.67
Samples: 1
Published in: JeongWarinnerPNAS2016
Catalogue: Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP.SG variant

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	Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)`Chokhopani_2700BP`	1.23
2	Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA`	2.03
3	Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms`	2.44
4	Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms`	2.60
5	Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA`	2.66
6	Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA`	2.90
7	Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)`Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP`	3.06
8	Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP)`Samdzong_1500BP`	3.11
9	Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA`	3.28
10	Mebrak (Iron Age, c. 2125 BP)`Mebrak_2125BP`	3.43

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Rai`Rai`	2.30
2	Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling`Nepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling`	2.62
3	Sherpa`Sherpa`	2.62
4	Nepali Tamang Tashinam`Nepali_Tamang_Tashinam`	2.64
5	Tibetan`Tibetan`	2.81
6	Tibetan Shigatse`Tibetan_Shigatse`	3.02
7	Tibetan Shannan`Tibetan_Shannan`	3.10
8	Tibetan Lhasa`Tibetan_Lhasa`	3.14
9	Tibetan Nagqu`Tibetan_Nagqu`	3.21
10	Gurung`Gurung`	3.58

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-F20067

mtDNA

1 individual with a call

D4j1b

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	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`C1_noUDG.SG`	M	1200-450 BCE	Chokhopani Tomb	O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-F20067	D4j1b