Ancient population · Medieval

Alan (Medieval, Russia)

Name: Alan (Medieval, Russia) (Russia_Alan)
Creator: Genoplot

Russia_Alan

Alan (Medieval, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_Alan), with 3 samples from Russia, dated to c. 650–1100 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Alan (Medieval), Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age) and Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia); the nearest living populations are Kumyk, Chechen and Ingushian.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups Q1b and R1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H13a, H5 and W1.

Period: Medieval
Date: c. 650–1100 CE
Country: Russia
Sampled near: Unknown, Kirovsky 43.50, 43.77
Sites: Unknown, Kirovsky
Unknown, Malokarachayevsky
Unknown, Pravoberezhny
Samples: 3
Published in: DamgaardWillerslevNature2018
Catalogue: Russia_Alan.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	Alan (Medieval)`Alan_MA`	0.44
2	Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)`Armenia_LBA_EIA`	3.01
3	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Lchashen_LBA`	3.25
4	Beniamin (Late Bronze Age, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_LBA`	3.27
5	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · Armenia_LBA`Armenia_LBA`	3.28
6	Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBA`Armenia_MBA`	3.36
7	Armenia (Late Bronze Age) · ARM_LBA`ARM_LBA`	3.49
8	Anapa (Medieval)`Anapa_MA`	3.51
9	Caucasus (Medieval, Russia)`Russia_Caucasus_Medieval`	3.55
10	Lchashen (Late Bronze Age)`Lchashen_LBA`	3.60

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Kumyk`Kumyk`	2.10
2	Chechen`Chechen`	2.32
3	Ingushian`Ingushian`	2.58
4	Tat Dagestan Dzhalgan`Tat_Dagestan_Dzhalgan`	2.79
5	Karata`Karata`	2.97
6	Adygei`Adygei`	3.18
7	Tabasaran`Tabasaran`	3.19
8	Balkar`Balkar`	3.33
9	Kabardin`Kabardin`	3.33
10	Circassian`Circassian`	3.36

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

Q1b1b1 Q-YP4024
R1a1a1b2a2a3 R-Y71694

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

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	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`DA162_noUDG.SG`	M	450-850 CE	Unknown, Pravoberezhny	Q1b1b1 Q-YP4024	H13a2c
`DA164_noUDG.SG`	F	850-1350 CE	Unknown, Kirovsky		H5
`DA243_noUDG.SG`	M	450-1350 CE	Unknown, Malokarachayevsky	R1a1a1b2a2a3 R-Y71694	W1
`DA146_noUDG.SG` outlier	F	450-850 CE	unknown, Alagirsky		HV2a1
`DA160_noUDG.SG` outlier	F	450-850 CE	unknown, Alagirsky		U4d3