Modern population
Tamang
Tamang
Tamang is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tamang), with 7 samples from Bagmati, Nepal.
Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Magar, Nepali Tamang Simigaon and Gurung, and among ancient ones Mustang Suila (Late Chalcolithic, Nepal), Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal) and Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP).
- Period
- Modern
- Country
- Nepal
- Origin
- Bagmati, Nepal
- Sampled near
- Janakpur Zone 27.56, 85.97
- Samples
- 7
- Published in
- WangReichNature2021
- Catalogue
Tamang
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MagarMagar | 1.32 |
| 2 | Nepali Tamang SimigaonNepali_Tamang_Simigaon | 1.54 |
| 3 | GurungGurung | 3.92 |
| 4 | Nepali Tamang TashinamNepali_Tamang_Tashinam | 5.20 |
| 5 | JamatiaJamatia | 6.09 |
| 6 | TripuriTripuri | 6.15 |
| 7 | RiangRiang | 6.31 |
| 8 | RaiRai | 6.50 |
| 9 | Nepali Sherpa RolwalingNepali_Sherpa_Rolwaling | 6.63 |
| 10 | Tibetan XunhuaTibetan_Xunhua | 7.05 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mustang Suila (Late Chalcolithic, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Suila_LateC | 4.65 |
| 2 | Mustang Rhirhi (Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Rhirhi_IA | 6.23 |
| 3 | Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP)Samdzong_1500BP | 6.24 |
| 4 | Samdzong (Antiquity, c. 1500 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Samdzong_1500BP | 6.35 |
| 5 | Mustang Samdzong Middle Kingdoms (Medieval, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Samdzong_MiddleKingdoms | 6.64 |
| 6 | Mustang Chokhopani (Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Chokhopani_IA | 6.64 |
| 7 | Manang Kyang (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Manang_Kyang_LIA | 6.69 |
| 8 | Mustang Mebrak EMiddle Kingdoms (Late Iron Age, Nepal)Nepal_Mustang_Mebrak_LIA_EMiddleKingdoms | 6.73 |
| 9 | Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2700 BP)Chokhopani_2700BP | 6.82 |
| 10 | Chokhopani (Iron Age, c. 2800 BP, Nepal)Nepal_Chokhopani_2800BP | 7.13 |
Individuals 7
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.
| Sample | Sex | Site |
|---|---|---|
Ta05 | F | Nepal, modern |
Ta24 | M | Nepal, modern |
Ta39 | F | Nepal, modern |
Ta43 | F | Nepal, modern |
Ta52 | F | Nepal, modern |
Ta64 | M | Nepal, modern |
Ta80 | M | Nepal, modern |