Ancient population · Iron Age

Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)

Name: Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal) (Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA)
Creator: Genoplot

Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA

Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA), with 7 samples from Nepal, dated to c. 400 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal), Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal) and Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal); the nearest living populations are Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling, Tibetan Shannan and Sherpa.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O2a (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include F1c (2), M62a, M9a and U2b.

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 400 BCE
Country: Nepal
Sampled near: Kyang 28.73, 84.27
Samples: 7
Published in: LiuJeongNatComm2022
Catalogue: Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA

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	Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms`	1.14
2	Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA`	1.44
3	Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms`	1.65
4	Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP)`Samdzong_1500BP`	2.18
5	Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA`	2.22
6	Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)`Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP`	2.37
7	Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA`	2.55
8	Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)`Chokhopani_2700BP`	2.60
9	Mebrak (Iron Age, c. 2125 BP)`Mebrak_2125BP`	2.86
10	Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)`Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP`	2.90

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling`Nepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling`	1.77
2	Tibetan Shannan`Tibetan_Shannan`	1.80
3	Sherpa`Sherpa`	1.87
4	Tibetan Shigatse`Tibetan_Shigatse`	1.97
5	Tibetan`Tibetan`	2.07
6	Tibetan Lhasa`Tibetan_Lhasa`	2.22
7	Nepali Tamang Tashinam`Nepali_Tamang_Tashinam`	2.54
8	Tibetan Nagqu`Tibetan_Nagqu`	2.58
9	Rai`Rai`	2.59
10	Tibetan Xunhua`Tibetan_Xunhua`	2.98

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-F20338 3

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 7

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
`KM4_noUDG`	M	800-1 BCE	Kyang	O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-F20338	F1c1a1a
`KS20_KS25_noUDG`
`KS21_KS23_KS4_noUDG`
`KS26_noUDG`	F	800-1 BCE	Kyang		M62a
`KS5_noUDG`	F	800-1 BCE	Kyang		U2b1
`KS8_noUDG`	M	800-1 BCE	Kyang	O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-MF10037	F1c1a1a
`KS9_noUDG`	M	800-1 BCE	Kyang	O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-MF10037	M9a1a1c1b1a