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North Ossetian (Russia)

Russia_NorthOssetian

North Ossetian (Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_NorthOssetian), with 1 sample from Russia.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Dzharkutan 2 (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan), Caucasus (Medieval, Russia) and Anapa (Medieval); the nearest living populations are North Ossetian, Balkar and Karachay.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup J2a.

Period
Ancient
Country
Russia
Sampled near
Vladikavkaz 43.02, 44.65
Samples
1
Catalogue
Russia_NorthOssetian.DG 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
#PopulationDistance
1Dzharkutan 2 (Bronze Age, Uzbekistan)Uzbekistan_Dzharkutan_BA_22.56
2Caucasus (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_Medieval3.52
3Anapa (Medieval)Anapa_MA3.65
4Alan (Medieval, Russia)Russia_Alan4.36
5Alan (Medieval)Alan_MA4.43
6Himera 480BCE 5 (Iron Age, Sicily)Sicily_Himera_480BCE_55.03
7North Caucasus (Middle Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_North_Caucasus_MBA5.25
8Armenia (Middle Bronze Age) · Armenia_MBAArmenia_MBA5.41
9Caucasus Late Maikop (Bronze Age, Russia)Russia_Caucasus_LateMaikop5.52
10Armenia (Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age)Armenia_LBA_EIA5.71
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1North OssetianNorth_Ossetian2.69
2BalkarBalkar2.82
3KarachayKarachay3.07
4AbazinAbazin3.14
5OssetianOssetian3.14
6AdygeiAdygei3.17
7CircassianCircassian3.19
8IngushianIngushian3.29
9CherkesCherkes3.37
10ChechenChechen3.55

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

Individuals 1

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.

SampleSexSiteY-DNA
S_North_Ossetian-1.DGMVladikavkazJ2a1 J-Y25817