Ancient population · Iron Age

Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)

Name: Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal) (Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms)
Creator: Genoplot

Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms

Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms), with 8 samples from Nepal, dated to c. 320 BCE.

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

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup O2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include M9a (4) and F1c (3).

Period: Iron Age
Date: c. 320 BCE
Country: Nepal
Sampled near: Mebrak Tomb 28.86, 83.92
Samples: 8
Published in: LiuJeongNatComm2022
Catalogue: Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms

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 Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms`	1.13
2	Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA`	1.14
3	Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA`	1.45
4	Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP)`Samdzong_1500BP`	1.88
5	Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)`Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP`	1.90
6	Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA`	2.15
7	Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)`Chokhopani_2700BP`	2.36
8	Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)`Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP`	2.44
9	Mebrak (Iron Age, c. 2125 BP)`Mebrak_2125BP`	2.50
10	Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)`Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA`	2.62

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sherpa`Sherpa`	1.57
2	Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling`Nepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling`	1.58
3	Tibetan Shannan`Tibetan_Shannan`	1.70
4	Tibetan Shigatse`Tibetan_Shigatse`	1.75
5	Tibetan`Tibetan`	1.77
6	Tibetan Lhasa`Tibetan_Lhasa`	2.04
7	Rai`Rai`	2.22
8	Tibetan Nagqu`Tibetan_Nagqu`	2.39
9	Nepali Tamang Tashinam`Nepali_Tamang_Tashinam`	2.50
10	Tibetan Xunhua`Tibetan_Xunhua`	2.71

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-MF10037

mtDNA

7 individuals with a call

M9a1a1c1b1a 4
F1c1a1a 3

Individuals 8

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
`M2113_noUDG`	F	800 BCE - 150 CE	Mebrak Tomb		M9a1a1c1b1a
`M295_noUDG`	F	800 BCE - 150 CE	Mebrak Tomb		F1c1a1a
`M3490_noUDG`	F	800 BCE - 150 CE	Mebrak Tomb		F1c1a1a
`M354_noUDG`	M	800 BCE - 150 CE	Mebrak Tomb	O2a2b1a1a1a4a1 O-MF10037	M9a1a1c1b1a
`M368_noUDG`	F	800 BCE - 150 CE	Mebrak Tomb		M9a1a1c1b1a
`M4580_noUDG`	F	800 BCE - 150 CE	Mebrak Tomb		F1c1a1a
`M4681_noUDG`	F	800 BCE - 150 CE	Mebrak Tomb		M9a1a1c1b1a
`M63_M339_M359_noUDG`