Modern population

Tajik

Tajik

Tajik is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tajik), with 25 samples from Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Tajik Tajikistan Ayni, Tajik Tajikistan Hisor and Tajik Tajikistan Kulob, and among ancient ones Arkhangai (Early Medieval, Mongolia), Tajik Badakhshan and Sarikoli (China).

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup L1a (2).

Period
Modern
Country
Tajikistan
Origin
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Sampled near
Khujand 39.37, 68.52
Sites
Aininsky District (12)
Kulyab District (7)
Gissar District (4)
Shughnon District (2)
Samples
25
Catalogue
Tajik
Tajik.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.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Tajik Tajikistan AyniTajik_Tajikistan_Ayni0.95
2Tajik Tajikistan HisorTajik_Tajikistan_Hisor1.25
3Tajik Tajikistan KulobTajik_Tajikistan_Kulob1.66
4Pamiri BadakhshanPamiri_Badakhshan3.26
5Pamiri SarikoliPamiri_Sarikoli3.61
6Tajik ShugnanTajik_Shugnan3.83
7Pamiri IshkashimPamiri_Ishkashim3.90
8Pamiri ShugnanPamiri_Shugnan4.05
9Pamiri WakhiPamiri_Wakhi4.08
10Tajik IshkashimTajik_Ishkashim4.15
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Arkhangai (Early Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Arkhangai_EarlyMedieval2.54
2Tajik BadakhshanTajik_Badakhshan3.26
3Sarikoli (China)Sarikoli_China3.66
4Modern Nomad (Kyrgyzstan)Kyrgyzstan_Modern_Nomad3.98
5Xinjiang Hetian Historical (Antiquity, China)China_Xinjiang_Hetian_Historical4.76
6Chuy Burana Black Death (Medieval, Kyrgyzstan)Kyrgyzstan_Chuy_Burana_BlackDeath_Medieval4.84
7Ksirov Kushan (Antiquity, Tajikistan)Tajikistan_Ksirov_Kushan4.98
8Hetian HE1 (Antiquity)Hetian_HE15.33
9Arkhangai MLBAto EIAor Medieval (Medieval, Mongolia)Mongolia_Arkhangai_MLBAtoEIAorMedieval5.39
10Xinjiang Tielieketesai 1 (Iron Age, China)China_Xinjiang_Tielieketesai_IA_15.59

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call of 25

Individuals 25

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.

SampleCatalogue entrySexSiteY-DNA
S_Tajik-1.DGTajik.DGMShughnon DistrictL1a2a L-Y127424
S_Tajik-2.DGTajik.DGMShughnon DistrictL1a2a L-FT322205
TJ-0080TajikMAininsky District
TJ-0086TajikMAininsky District
TJ-0091TajikMAininsky District
TJ-0108TajikMKulyab District
TJ-0155TajikMKulyab District
TJ-0484TajikMGissar District
TJ-0486TajikMGissar District
TJ-0495TajikMAininsky District
TJ-0500TajikMKulyab District
TJ-0517TajikMKulyab District
TJ-0555TajikMKulyab District
TJ-0573TajikMKulyab District
TJ-0574TajikMKulyab District
TJ-0686TajikMGissar District
TJ-0688TajikMGissar District
TJ-0796TajikMAininsky District
TJ-0798TajikMAininsky District
TJ-0807TajikMAininsky District
TJ-0982TajikMAininsky District
TJ-0984TajikMAininsky District
TJ-0986TajikMAininsky District
TJ-1032TajikMAininsky District
TJ-1041TajikMAininsky District