Friday, November 11, 2016

Y DNA from ancient Near East

In the table below are links to Y-SNP calls for samples from the ancient Near East.
Sample  Region   Culture      Haplogroup
I1632   Armenia  Copper Age   L1a1-M27*                  calls
I1635   Armenia  Kura-Araxes  R1b1a1b-CTS3187            calls
I1293   Iran     Mesolithic   J2a-CTS1085                calls
I1945   Iran     Neolithic    R2a-Y3399                  calls
I1949   Iran     Neolithic    pre-R2-M479                calls
I1671   Iran     Neolithic    G2a1a-FGC602(xG2a1a1)      calls
I1662   Iran     Copper Age   J2a-PF5008(xL581)          calls
I1674   Iran     Copper Age   G1a1b-GG372                calls
I1069   Levant   Natufian     E1b1b1-PF1871(xE1b1b1b1)   calls
I1685   Levant   Natufian     E1b1b-CTS10365             calls
I1690   Levant   Natufian     E1b1b-CTS4345              calls
I1414   Levant   PPNB         E1b1b1b2-CTS11781          calls
I1415   Levant   PPNB         E1b1b1b2a1-Y4974           calls
I1416   Levant   PPNB         CT(xH, I, J, K)            calls
I1707   Levant   PPNB         T1-PF5610(xT1a1, T1a2)     calls
I1710   Levant   PPNB         E1b1b1a1-CTS675            calls
I1727   Levant   PPNB         F(xG, J, LT, K2)           calls
I1700   Levant   PPNC         H2-P96                     calls
I1705   Levant   Bronze Age   J1a2b-Z2324                calls
I1730   Levant   Bronze Age   J2b1-PF7314                calls
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 In the table below are links to Y-SNP calls for ancient DNA samples from the Zagros Mountains of Iran.
Sample  Period           Date BC    Haplogroup
AH2     Early Neolithic  8205–7756  J2b-M12*                calls
WC1     Early Neolithic  7455–7082  G2b2a-Z8022             calls
F38     Early Iron Age   971–832    R1b1a1a2a2a-Y:24376846  calls
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 In the table below are links to Y-SNP calls for Neolithic samples from central Asia Minor. Kilinc et al. 2016
Sample  Period                 Date BC    Haplogroup
Bon004  Pre-Pottery Neolithic  > 8300     G2a2b2b-F705      calls
Bon001  Pre-Pottery Neolithic  8212–7952  G2a2b2b1a-PF3422  calls
Tep001  Pottery Neolithic      7500–5800  G, J2, or R1b     calls
Tep006  Pottery Neolithic      7500–5800  C1a2-Y10446       calls
Tep003  Pottery Neolithic      7500–5800  G2a2a-PF3159*     calls
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SampleGenome CoveragemtDNA CoverageRead Length (Mean)mtDNA HaplogroupGenetic Sex
Bon0010.166654.60463.208U3XY
Bon0026.6882,379.09069.841K1aXX
Bon0040.243351.23470.703N1a1a1XY
Bon0050.03968.61571.021N1a1a1XX
Tep0010.02366.81280.863K1aXY
Tep0020.721730.83360.814K1a12aXX
Tep0030.694281.96360.849N1b1aXY
Tep0040.473391.60861.473N1a1a1XX
Tep0060.267259.87983.585N1a1a1XY

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Iron Age mtDNA from Batman region in SE Turkey ( historic Taron ) shows the presence of Indian population

In the proposed study, the mtDNA HVI and HVII region sequences (354 and 217 bp, respectively) of seven ancient samples collected from Cemialo Sırtı (Batman) excavation site in the southeastern of Anatolia were successfully obtained. The mtDNA HPG compositions of these ancient human samples were determined. The mtDNAhaplogroups of seven ancient individuals were assigned as H1z1, M1a, U2b1, H1a, HV, R2 and R6 and PhyloTreemt (http://www.phylotree.org/) was used for determination of the mtDNA haplogroups. Furthermore the mtDNA HVI - HVII region sequences of seven samples were comparatively analyzed with some modern human populations and various Neolithic populations that were retrieved from databases from Northern Syria (8000 BC), Central Europe (6000-1550 BC)
and Southern Paris (5000-4000 BC), including the Sagalassos population which is an ancient Byzantium population (11th–13th century Common Era (CE)) near from Ağlasun/Burdur in the Southwestern Anatolia. This study is the first study where the questions about the human ancient DNA (aDNA) are addressed in the dedicated ancient DNA laboratory of Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey.

Ancient DNA Isolation and mtDNA Analysis of approximately 2500-year-old Human Teeth and Phalanx Samples from Çemialo/Batman in Southeastern Anatolia by Rehan Yaka



From Ian Logan's GenBank page:
Code:
U2b1
EU330890(Thailand)
EU872046(India)
EU872047(India)
HM156687(India)
HM156690(India)
JX462726(India-LHON)

U2b1a
AY714020(India)
KF056258(Tibet)
KF056259(Tibet)
KF056260(Tibet)
Code:
R6
AY714028(India)
JF742197(Nepal)

R6a
AY714019(India)
HM156672(India)

R6a1
FJ004816(Ko5)
FJ004819(Ko31)
GU480018(India)
KM245130(Saudi)

R6a2
GU480008(India)
JQ704804
KC577359(Mauritius)

R6b
AY713994(India)
JX289095(Myanmar)

Do this presence of Indian mtDNA means that Indians started to arrive in Taron earlier than was presumed?

However, only in the canton of Taron did the efforts to protect the pagan temples grow into a full-scale, though self-consciously hopeless, insurrection. Most of the rebel force was put up by the Armenian-Indian theocratic principality or, more precisely, a warrior temple association founded by the Indian tribes who migrated to Armenia some two centuries earlier, presumably, during the reign of King Tiridates I (63-88 CE).

Tiridates I had ordered them to settle in this strategically important area and supply his army with trained cavalry and infantry, which they did loyally. By the fourth century these Indians had grown to a population of up to 100,000, and they had already been partially assimilated into the Armenian society:

Armenia’s Conversion to Christianity