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Oyiraad ancestry in Wranakh Tibetans?
Topic Started: Aug 30 2017, 12:14:06 AM (68 Views)
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I mentioned the Wranakh Tibetans at http://www.anthropedia.science/topic/10020928/ . In the light of the possible appearance of Wranakh data in the supplementary tables of Qi et al. 2013, one should mention the possibility that Wranakhs could have Oyiraad ancestry. But unfortunately, the y-chromosomal data published by Qi et al. 2013 (n=5) won't suffice for any proper comparison. Furthermore, the possible Wranakh mtDNA hg profile is relatively distinctive. Then again, the Oyiraad mtDNA profiles so far known to me are not to the same extent...

Basically, patrilineal Oyiraad (or other Mongolian) ancestry in some of the privileged men among them will suffice if they claim Mongolian ancestry since both Mongols and Tibetans are patrilineal. However, one of the sources to which Sulek refers in her 2010 essay describes Wranakhs as phenotypically more or less similar to Mongols. So more than just a few Mongolian men might have contributed to their gene pool. And their mtDNA could be from Mongolian ancestors as well.

As Sulek mentions, there is hardly any recent literature on the Wranakhs. So an increase of knowledge about their historical role as a relatively large and economically well-off(?) population geographically in between more typical Tibetans and southern Mongolic-speakers might be of interest.
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