ALN005 23andme format

By the 4th century AD, the region of modern Kyrgyzstan—especially the Tien Shan mountains and the Fergana Valley—was a crossroads of different nomadic and sedentary cultures. While the Turkic ethnolinguistic identity was still in its formative stages, early proto-Turkic-speaking tribes were already present in Central Asia.

Originating from the Upper Yenisei River basin in southern Siberia, the Yenisei Kyrgyz were early Turkic speakers.

Their ethnogenesis likely included Old Turkic, Samoyedic, and possibly Indo-Iranian influences.

For this video, I gathered the raw DNA data of a 4th century AD sample from kyrgyzstan. It’s ethnic breakdown closely resembles modern turkic people.

Not every sample in this group is turkic. A couple of the samples have no turkic ancestry at all.

Here is what this sample scores on my trait predictor.

He is predicted to carry the R1a-Z645 Y lineage.