How much Kangju, Wusun and Sarmatian ancestry do Tajiks- Pamiris, Yaghnobis have?

[Zanzibar]

I'm pretty ignorant about their genetics and their ethnogenesis but I want to learn more. Are they mainly descendants of Kangju and Wusun with some additional BMAC, Western-Iranian (in the case of Tajiks and Yaghnobis) and some AASI and Khovsgol_BA admixture (the latter in the case of Tajiks and Sarikolis)? Also are Kangju and Wusun related to the Sogdians and Bactrians?

Are these models accurate? Do Rushan and Shugnan Pamiris actually have that much Kangju ancestry?

Target: Tajik
Distance: 1.9434% / 0.01943397
47.6 KAZ_Kangju
20.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
17.8 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
10.8 MNG_Khovsgol_BA
3.8 S_AASI_SimAv

Target: Tajik_Badakshan
Distance: 1.6468% / 0.01646753
65.2 KAZ_Kangju
20.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
6.2 S_AASI_SimAv
5.8 UZB_Bustan_BA
2.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Ishkashim
Distance: 1.5314% / 0.01531388
64.4 KAZ_Kangju
26.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
7.8 S_AASI_SimAv
1.4 UZB_Bustan_BA
0.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Rushan
Distance: 1.5277% / 0.01527711
74.0 KAZ_Kangju
15.2 UZB_Bustan_BA
7.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
3.2 S_AASI_SimAv

Target: Tajik_Shugnan
Distance: 1.2513% / 0.01251254
71.0 KAZ_Kangju
15.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
9.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
4.6 S_AASI_SimAv
0.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Yagnobi
Distance: 1.7713% / 0.01771289
61.6 KAZ_Kangju
23.4 UZB_Bustan_BA
15.0 IRN_Hasanlu_IA

Target: Sarikoli_China
Distance: 1.9756% / 0.01975636
60.6 KAZ_Kangju
25.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
7.4 S_AASI_SimAv
6.8 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Replacing Kangju with Wusun and the fit worsens:

Target: Tajik
Distance: 2.1224% / 0.02122369
50.2 KAZ_Wusun
28.0 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
10.0 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
7.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA
3.6 S_AASI_SimAv
1.0 UZB_Bustan_BA

Target: Tajik_Badakshan
Distance: 1.9991% / 0.01999119
64.8 KAZ_Wusun
19.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
7.8 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
4.8 S_AASI_SimAv
3.0 UZB_Bustan_BA

Target: Tajik_Ishkashim
Distance: 1.9892% / 0.01989189
61.0 KAZ_Wusun
22.4 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
7.6 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
5.6 S_AASI_SimAv
3.4 UZB_Bustan_BA

Target: Tajik_Rushan
Distance: 2.4308% / 0.02430840
68.2 KAZ_Wusun
16.0 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
15.0 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
0.8 S_AASI_SimAv

Target: Tajik_Shugnan
Distance: 1.9472% / 0.01947241
66.0 KAZ_Wusun
18.0 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
13.6 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
2.4 S_AASI_SimAv

Target: Tajik_Yagnobi
Distance: 2.6429% / 0.02642927
53.8 KAZ_Wusun
31.4 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
14.8 UZB_Bustan_BA

Target: Sarikoli_China
Distance: 2.0092% / 0.02009193
68.4 KAZ_Wusun
23.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
6.8 S_AASI_SimAv
1.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA
0.4 UZB_Bustan_BA

Looks like they prefer Kangju to Wusun. Is it because Wusun have more East Eurasian ancestry than Kangju?

Also you can model using Sarmatians instead of Kangju or Wusun to model Tajiks, Pamiris, Yaghnobis? The fits are also really good surprisingly. Are they also heavily Sarmatian-derived?

Using Sarmatian_RUS_Urals

Target: Tajik
Distance: 1.7848% / 0.01784766
38.2 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
26.8 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
11.6 MNG_Khovsgol_BA
9.8 UZB_Bustan_BA
9.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
4.0 S_AASI_SimAv

Target: Tajik_Badakshan
Distance: 1.4523% / 0.01452271
53.2 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
20.8 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
11.8 UZB_Bustan_BA
6.4 S_AASI_SimAv
4.6 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
3.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Ishkashim
Distance: 1.2656% / 0.01265647
52.6 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
25.4 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
8.8 UZB_Bustan_BA
8.0 S_AASI_SimAv
4.0 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
1.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Rushan
Distance: 1.2930% / 0.01293048
60.6 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
19.4 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
11.0 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
4.8 UZB_Bustan_BA
3.6 S_AASI_SimAv
0.6 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Shugnan
Distance: 1.0999% / 0.01099851
57.0 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
25.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
10.8 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
4.6 S_AASI_SimAv
1.6 MNG_Khovsgol_BA
0.4 UZB_Bustan_BA

Target: Tajik_Yagnobi
Distance: 1.6267% / 0.01626683
49.8 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
25.0 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
15.8 UZB_Bustan_BA
8.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
0.8 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Sarikoli_China
Distance: 1.7011% / 0.01701095
51.6 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
24.8 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
9.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
7.4 S_AASI_SimAv
7.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Replace Sarmatian_RUS_Urals with Sarmatian_Segizsay:


Target: Tajik
Distance: 1.7473% / 0.01747340
38.8 Sarmatian_Segizsay
26.8 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
13.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
11.8 MNG_Khovsgol_BA
6.0 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
3.6 S_AASI_SimAv

Target: Tajik_Badakshan
Distance: 1.4040% / 0.01404039
53.6 Sarmatian_Segizsay
16.6 UZB_Bustan_BA
15.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
5.8 S_AASI_SimAv
4.8 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
3.6 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Ishkashim
Distance: 1.2101% / 0.01210120
53.2 Sarmatian_Segizsay
20.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
13.6 UZB_Bustan_BA
7.4 S_AASI_SimAv
4.0 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
1.6 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Rushan
Distance: 1.2731% / 0.01273112
60.8 Sarmatian_Segizsay
12.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
11.2 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
11.2 UZB_Bustan_BA
3.0 S_AASI_SimAv
1.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Shugnan
Distance: 1.1566% / 0.01156558
57.0 Sarmatian_Segizsay
19.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
11.2 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
6.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
4.0 S_AASI_SimAv
2.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Tajik_Yagnobi
Distance: 1.6354% / 0.01635395
50.6 Sarmatian_Segizsay
25.0 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
21.2 UZB_Bustan_BA
2.4 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
0.8 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Sarikoli_China
Distance: 1.5255% / 0.01525543
52.2 Sarmatian_Segizsay
19.8 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
13.6 UZB_Bustan_BA
7.6 MNG_Khovsgol_BA
6.8 S_AASI_SimAv

Please correct me if my models are flawed: that I'm doing it wrong. To reiterate, I'm really ignorant and new to the genetics of this region and the ethnic groups inhabited. Thoughts please?

[Leto]

Did you manage to get coordinates for the Tajiks from Jeong? I keep asking about them because I wanna run them through my Central Asian model.

[Avicenna]

Could you run Afghan_pashtun , Pashtun_kabul , Pashtun_North Afghanistan , Pashtun_kandahar and Safi_pakthun Laghman please ??

[Komintasavalta]

Did you manage to get coordinates for the Tajiks from Jeong? I keep asking about them because I wanna run them through my Central Asian model.

They're already in G25, if you mean the Tajiks from Jeong. et al. 2019. They're all the samples named just "Tajik" without a suffix for the region.

$ curl https://reichdata.hms.harvard.edu/pub/datasets/amh_repo/curated_releases/V44/V44.3/SHARE/public.dir/v44.3_HO_public.anno|grep Tajik|cut -f2,4,8,9,10,11,12|grep Jeong|tr \\t \;
TJ-0080;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-0086;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-0091;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-011;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Kyrgyz_Tajikistan;Gorno-Badakhshan region, Murgab district;Tajikistan;38.15;73.95
TJ-032;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Kyrgyz_Tajikistan;Gorno-Badakhshan region, Murgab district;Tajikistan;38.15;73.95
TJ-038;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Kyrgyz_Tajikistan;Gorno-Badakhshan region, Murgab district;Tajikistan;38.15;73.95
TJ-098;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Kyrgyz_Tajikistan;Gorno-Badakhshan region, Murgab district;Tajikistan;38.15;73.95
TJ-0108;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Kulyab district;Tajikistan;37.9;69.77
TJ-0155;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Kulyab district;Tajikistan;37.9;69.77
TJ-0484;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Gissar district;Tajikistan;38.52;68.53
TJ-0486;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Gissar district;Tajikistan;38.52;68.53
TJ-0495;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-0500;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Kulyab district;Tajikistan;37.9;69.77
TJ-0517;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Kulyab district;Tajikistan;37.9;69.77
TJ-0555;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Kulyab district;Tajikistan;37.9;69.77
TJ-0573;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Kulyab district;Tajikistan;37.9;69.77
TJ-0574;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Kulyab district;Tajikistan;37.9;69.77
TJ-0686;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Gissar district;Tajikistan;38.52;68.53
TJ-0688;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Gissar district;Tajikistan;38.52;68.53
TJ-0796;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-0798;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-0807;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-0982;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-0984;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-0986;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-1032;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
TJ-1041;JeongNatureEcologyEvolution2019;Tajik;Aininsky district;Tajikistan;39.37;68.52
$ curl 'https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1HYrDwxEXv82DvDLoq736pS5ZTGJA4dn5'|grep Tajik:TJ|cut -d, -f1|paste -sd\  -
Tajik:TJ-0080 Tajik:TJ-0086 Tajik:TJ-0091 Tajik:TJ-0108 Tajik:TJ-0155 Tajik:TJ-0484 Tajik:TJ-0486 Tajik:TJ-0495 Tajik:TJ-0500 Tajik:TJ-0517 Tajik:TJ-0555 Tajik:TJ-0573 Tajik:TJ-0574 Tajik:TJ-0686 Tajik:TJ-0688 Tajik:TJ-0796 Tajik:TJ-0798 Tajik:TJ-0807 Tajik:TJ-0982 Tajik:TJ-0984 Tajik:TJ-0986 Tajik:TJ-1032 Tajik:TJ-1041

[Zanzibar]

Could you run Afghan_pashtun , Pashtun_kabul , Pashtun_North Afghanistan , Pashtun_kandahar and Safi_pakthun Laghman please ??

I will. Btw the Tajik_Badakhshan samples are actually from Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan, not from Badakhshan in Far Northern Afghanistan.

[Zanzibar]

Did you manage to get coordinates for the Tajiks from Jeong? I keep asking about them because I wanna run them through my Central Asian model.

Sorry I will ask them. Preoccupied with too many stuff.

[Leto]

They're already in G25, if you mean the Tajiks from Jeong. et al. 2019. They're all the samples named just "Tajik" without a suffix for the region.

Okay, thanks! I will sort them out and rename them properly.

[Zanzibar]

Could you run Afghan_pashtun , Pashtun_kabul , Pashtun_North Afghanistan , Pashtun_kandahar and Safi_pakthun Laghman please ??

Please do not quote them as I might have to remove them later as I'm not sure if these samples are privated or not (they weren't added to the G25 spreadsheet so I don't think they are for public use) .

I will put them in spoilers just for safety. Do not quote please.

Spoiler!

Target: Pashtun_Afghanistan_Average
Distance: 1.4303% / 0.01430341
45.2 KAZ_Kangju
23.8 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
17.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
9.4 S_AASI_SimAv
4.6 IRN_Hasanlu_IA

Target: Pashtun_Kabul_Paghman
Distance: 1.9346% / 0.01934597
46.8 KAZ_Kangju
35.4 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
10.4 S_AASI_SimAv
6.6 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
0.8 MNG_Khovsgol_BA


Target: Pashtun_Kandahar
Distance: 2.0031% / 0.02003122
41.6 KAZ_Kangju
36.2 UZB_Bustan_BA
11.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
8.4 S_AASI_SimAv
2.6 IRN_Hasanlu_IA

Target: Pashtun_North_Afghanistan
Distance: 1.5111% / 0.01511069
46.4 KAZ_Kangju
26.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
15.4 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
9.8 S_AASI_SimAv
1.8 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
0.6 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Replacing the Kangju with Wusun instead, the fits worsen

Target: Pashtun_Afghanistan_Average
Distance: 1.8302% / 0.01830220
41.4 KAZ_Wusun
31.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
16.2 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
8.0 S_AASI_SimAv
3.2 UZB_Bustan_BA


Target: Pashtun_Kabul_Paghman
Distance: 2.0801% / 0.02080116
44.2 KAZ_Wusun
32.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
14.2 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
9.4 S_AASI_SimAv


Target: Pashtun_Kandahar
Distance: 2.4289% / 0.02428925
37.6 KAZ_Wusun
23.6 UZB_Bustan_BA
18.0 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
13.6 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
7.2 S_AASI_SimAv

Target: Pashtun_North_Afghanistan
Distance: 1.9016% / 0.01901586
43.4 KAZ_Wusun
23.4 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
13.4 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
11.2 UZB_Bustan_BA
8.6 S_AASI_SimAv

Replacing the Kangju and Wusun with Sarmatians instead. First using Sarmatian_RUS_Urals:

Target: Pashtun_Afghanistan_Average
Distance: 1.3208% / 0.01320774
36.8 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
34.0 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
13.2 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
9.8 S_AASI_SimAv
6.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
0.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA


Target: Pashtun_Kabul_Paghman
Distance: 1.9084% / 0.01908444
37.4 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
36.8 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
13.4 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
10.6 S_AASI_SimAv
1.8 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Target: Pashtun_Kandahar
Distance: 1.9098% / 0.01909815
34.4 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
24.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
22.0 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
10.8 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
8.8 S_AASI_SimAv

Target: Pashtun_North_Afghanistan
Distance: 1.3347% / 0.01334668
37.0 Sarmatian_RUS_Urals
25.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
15.2 UZB_Bustan_BA
10.8 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
9.8 S_AASI_SimAv
1.6 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Substituting Sarmatian_RUS_Urals with Sarmatian_Segizsay


Target: Pashtun_Afghanistan_Average
Distance: 1.3174% / 0.01317438
37.0 Sarmatian_Segizsay
30.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
13.4 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
9.4 S_AASI_SimAv
9.4 UZB_Bustan_BA
0.6 MNG_Khovsgol_BA


Target: Pashtun_Kabul_Paghman
Distance: 1.9999% / 0.01999868
36.8 Sarmatian_Segizsay
36.2 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
14.6 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
10.2 S_AASI_SimAv
2.2 MNG_Khovsgol_BA


Target: Pashtun_Kandahar
Distance: 1.7711% / 0.01771139
35.4 Sarmatian_Segizsay
26.8 UZB_Bustan_BA
19.0 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
10.4 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
8.4 S_AASI_SimAv

Target: Pashtun_North_Afghanistan
Distance: 1.4486% / 0.01448565
36.8 Sarmatian_Segizsay
21.6 IRN_Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA1
19.0 UZB_Bustan_BA
11.2 IRN_Hasanlu_IA
9.4 S_AASI_SimAv
2.0 MNG_Khovsgol_BA

Overall, they have less Kangju, Wusun, Sarmatian ancestry than Tajiks. Instead, they seem to have more heavily Iranian_Neolithic/BMAC, more AASI and less Mongoloid than the Tajiks.

[Dr_Maul]

Yagnobis are a good proxy for Sogdians and Bactrians overall. Added Saidu Sharif H_o as I am sure to have read that Hindu slavery strongly impacted the region genetically. Pamiris seem to be 30+% Wusun/Kangju

[Leto]

Yagnobis are a good proxy for Sogdians and Bactrians overall. Added Saidu Sharif H_o as I am sure to have read that Hindu slavery strongly impacted the region genetically. Pamiris seem to be 30+% Wusun/Kangju
[IMG]https://i.ibb.co/xsxc1tm/a.png

Do you think there is medieval Indian admixture in Tajiks? What would be the best Bronze Age proxy for Indian? I'm less interested in later cultures as they are pretty much descended from the Bronze Age Steppe herders anyway.