Modern population
Rai
Rai
Rai is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Rai), with 2 samples from Dhankuta, Nepal.
Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Nepali Sherpa Rolwaling, Nepali Tamang Tashinam and Sherpa, and among ancient ones Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP), Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal) and Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal).
- Period
- Modern
- Country
- Nepal
- Origin
- Dhankuta, Nepal
- Sampled near
- Bhojpur 27.59, 86.97
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- WangReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Rai
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nepali Sherpa RolwalingNepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling | 2.03 |
| 2 | Nepali Tamang TashinamNepali_Tamang_Tashinam | 2.09 |
| 3 | SherpaSherpa | 2.18 |
| 4 | TibetanTibetan | 2.31 |
| 5 | Tibetan ShannanTibetan_Shannan | 2.56 |
| 6 | Tibetan ShigatseTibetan_Shigatse | 2.57 |
| 7 | Tibetan LhasaTibetan_Lhasa | 2.68 |
| 8 | GurungGurung | 2.94 |
| 9 | Tibetan XunhuaTibetan_Xunhua | 3.04 |
| 10 | Tibetan NagquTibetan_Nagqu | 3.19 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)Chokhopani_2700BP | 1.99 |
| 2 | Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms | 2.12 |
| 3 | Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms | 2.22 |
| 4 | Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP | 2.30 |
| 5 | Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA | 2.45 |
| 6 | Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP)Samdzong_1500BP | 2.48 |
| 7 | Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP | 2.50 |
| 8 | Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA | 2.59 |
| 9 | Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA | 2.70 |
| 10 | Mebrak (Iron Age, c. 2125 BP)Mebrak_2125BP | 3.12 |
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 | Sex | Site |
|---|---|---|
Rai04 | M | Nepal, modern |
Rai14 | M | Nepal, modern |
Rai09 outlier | F | Nepal, modern |
Rai12 outlier | Nepal, modern | |
Rai16 outlier | F | Nepal, modern |