Modern population

Orcadian

Orcadian

Orcadian is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Orcadian), with 10 samples from Scotland, United Kingdom.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Scottish, Irish and English, and among ancient ones Schleswig Saxon LMedieval (Medieval, Germany), EM (Faroes) and Early Modern (Faroes).

Period
Modern
Origin
Scotland, United Kingdom
Sampled near
Orkney Islands 59.00, -3.00
Samples
10
Catalogue
Orcadian

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.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1ScottishScottish0.58
2IrishIrish0.97
3EnglishEnglish1.00
4WelshWelsh1.11
5English CornwallEnglish_Cornwall1.27
6DutchDutch1.31
7DanishDanish1.45
8NorwegianNorwegian1.50
9IcelandicIcelandic1.58
10ShetlandicShetlandic1.65
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Schleswig Saxon LMedieval (Medieval, Germany)Germany_Schleswig_Saxon_LMedieval1.07
2EM (Faroes)Faroes_EM1.08
3Early Modern (Faroes)Faroes_EarlyModern1.16
4England (Early Medieval)England_EarlyMedieval1.18
5England (Iron Age)England_IA1.22
6England (Middle Iron Age–Late Iron Age)England_MIA_LIA1.23
7England (Middle Iron Age)England_MIA1.28
8Groningen Saxon (Medieval, Netherlands)Netherlands_Groningen_Saxon_Medieval1.32
9Kilteasheen Anglo Saxon EMedieval Norman (Medieval, Ireland)Ireland_Kilteasheen_AngloSaxon_EMedieval_Norman1.34
10Roman (Iron Age, England)England_IA_Roman1.34

Individuals 10

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.

SampleSexSite
HGDP00794FOrkney
HGDP00796FOrkney
HGDP00797FOrkney
HGDP00798MOrkney
HGDP00799FOrkney
HGDP00800FOrkney
HGDP00802FOrkney
HGDP00803MOrkney
HGDP00804MOrkney
HGDP00805FOrkney