Medieval Super-Grandfather founder of Western Kazakh Clans from Haplogroup C2a1a2-M48

Zhabagin M. Sabitov Z. Tazhigulova I. Alborova I. Agdzhoyan A. Wei L.-H. Urasin V. Koshel S. Mustafin K. Akilzhanova A. Li H. Balanovsky O. Balanovska E.
July 2021 Springer Nature

Journal of Human Genetics
2021 #66 Issue 7 707 - 716 pp.

Western Kazakhstan is populated by three clans totaling 2 million people. Since the clans are patrilineal, the Y-chromosome is the most informative genetic system for tracing their origin. We genotyped 40 Y-SNP and 17 Y-STR markers in 330 Western Kazakhs. High phylogenetic resolution within haplogroup C2a1a2-M48 was achieved by using additional SNPs. Three lines of evidence indicate that the Alimuly and Baiuly clans (but not the Zhetiru clan) have a common founder placed 700 ± 200 years back by the STR data and 500 ± 200 years back by the sequencing data. This supports traditional genealogy claims about the descent of these clans from Emir Alau, who lived 650 years ago and whose lineage might be carried by two-thirds of Western Kazakhs. There is accumulation of specific haplogroups in the subclans representing other lineages, confirming that the clan structure corresponds with the paternal genetic structure of the steppe population.

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National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and B&R International Joint Laboratory for Eurasian Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
National Center for Biotechnology, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Forensic science center of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russian Federation
Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Institute of Anthropology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
YFull service, Moscow, Russian Federation
Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Biobank of North Eurasia, Moscow, Russian Federation
Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russian Federation

National Laboratory Astana
MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and B&R International Joint Laboratory for Eurasian Anthropology
National Center for Biotechnology
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Forensic science center of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Vavilov Institute for General Genetics
Department of Anthropology and Ethnology
YFull service
Faculty of Geography
Biobank of North Eurasia
Research Centre for Medical Genetics

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