Modern population

Sherpa

Sherpa

Sherpa is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Sherpa), with 6 samples from Dolakha, Nepal.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Tibetan Shigatse, Tibetan and Tibetan Shannan, and among ancient ones Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal), Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal) and Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal).

Period
Modern
Country
Nepal
Origin
Dolakha, Nepal
Sampled near
Sagarmatha Zone 27.63, 86.66
Samples
6
Catalogue
Sherpa

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
1Tibetan ShigatseTibetan_Shigatse1.36
2TibetanTibetan1.37
3Tibetan ShannanTibetan_Shannan1.44
4Nepali Sherpa RolwalingNepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling1.50
5Tibetan LhasaTibetan_Lhasa1.55
6Tibetan NagquTibetan_Nagqu1.92
7RaiRai2.18
8Nepali Tamang TashinamNepali_Tamang_Tashinam2.61
9Tibetan ChamdoTibetan_Chamdo2.75
10Qiang DaofuQiang_Daofu3.04
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms1.44
2Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms1.57
3Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA1.87
4Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP2.13
5Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP)Samdzong_1500BP2.19
6Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA2.39
7Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA2.49
8Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)Chokhopani_2700BP2.62
9Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP2.62
10Mustang Lubrak (Early Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Lubrak_EIA2.79

Individuals 6

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
Sherpa04FSingel
Sherpa08MSingel
Sherpa09MSingel
Sherpa13FSingel
T_Sherpa-1Dolakha, Nepal
T_Sherpa-2Dolakha, Nepal