Modern population

Syrian Jew

Name: Syrian Jew (Syrian_Jew)
Creator: Genoplot

Syrian_Jew

Syrian Jew is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Syrian_Jew), with 2 samples from Damascus, Syria.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Alawite, Druze and Romaniote Jew, and among ancient ones Casal Bertone Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy), Lebanese Christian Maronite and Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox.

Period: Modern
Country: Syria
Origin: Damascus, Syria
Sampled near: Damascus 33.52, 36.32
Samples: 2
Catalogue: Syrian_Jew

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
#	Population	Distance
1	Alawite`Alawite`	2.21
2	Druze`Druze`	2.40
3	Romaniote Jew`Romaniote_Jew`	2.41
4	Lebanese Druze`Lebanese_Druze`	2.43
5	Karaite Egypt`Karaite_Egypt`	2.49
6	Cypriot`Cypriot`	2.63
7	Lebanese Shia Muslim Beirut`Lebanese_Shia_Muslim_Beirut`	2.68
8	Lebanese Muslim`Lebanese_Muslim`	2.71
9	Sephardic Jew`Sephardic_Jew`	2.78
10	Turkish Jew`Turkish_Jew`	2.82

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Casal Bertone Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_CasalBertone_RomanImperial`	2.71
2	Lebanese Christian Maronite`Lebanese_Christian_Maronite`	2.86
3	Lebanese Christian Greek Orthodox`Lebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox`	2.98
4	Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_IsolaSacra_RomanImperial`	3.27
5	Lebanese Muslim Shia`Lebanese_Muslim_Shia`	3.27
6	Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician`	3.29
7	Pompeii Roman (Antiquity, Italy)`Italy_Pompeii_Roman`	3.30
8	Viminacium Roman elite 2 (Antiquity, Serbia)`Serbia_Viminacium_Roman_elite_2`	3.31
9	Rome Imperial (Antiquity)`Rome_Imperial`	3.31
10	Erfurt1 (Medieval)`MA_Erfurt1`	3.42

Individuals 2

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

Sample	Origin
`SyriaJewK6`	Damascus, Syria
`SyriaJewSY06`	Damascus, Syria