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Inter-relations between the Korean populations of Hamgyeong, Jilin and the Russian Far East?
Topic Started: Aug 28 2012, 07:45:27 PM (677 Views)
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The Korean bride sample of Hong Yihua et al.:
Jilin: 18/18 from Hamgyeong
Liaoning: 1/1 from Gyeongsang
Heilongjiang: 3/3 from Gyeongsang

As far as I remember, there was no major genetic study on Jilin Koreans. (Judging from the coordinates given in Xue's 2006 paper, Xue's y-chromosomal samples are from Liaoning.) Zhong Hua et al. reported y hgs C3, N and O (but no higher resolution) for 34 Jilin Koreans in 2010.

Physical anthropological studies on northeastern Koreans might therefore be interesting at the moment. Zhang Zhenbao et al. studied a population in Jilin, and Levin examined relatively many Koreans from Hamgyeong-bukdo who had migrated to Soviet Central Asia. Further, Shirokogorov's hairy Koreans were from close to the Jilin/Hamgyeong region, it seems.

Men from Hamgyeong-bukdo seem to characterised by relatively long heads and broad faces (184 and 145mm as opposed to 182 and 144mm in men from "other" regions of northern Korea examined by Levin; see p. 310). Concerning Jilin, Zhang Zhenbiao's cheekbone data (146mm) cannot necessarily be directly compared with those from other anthropometrists. (Head length was 184mm.) Therefore, reference to Shirokogorov's data might be more appropriate even though the latter cautions that his samples were of mixed origins though primarily Korean regions bordering the RFE. Head length and facial width among Shirokogorov's samples were 184 and 144mm (p. 126). I.e., there seems to be some metric similarity at least between those who emigrated from Hamgyeong-bukdo and those who lived to the north of it. But this doesn't necessarily prove any particular genetic closeness since Kubo's Pyeongyang samples are sort of within the same range, too (183 and 144mm according to Levin, p. 315). Kubo's Middle Korean Gyeonggido samples (182, 144, ibid.) had slightly shorter heads and Tanabe's Pyeongan-namdo samples (185, 142) both different head and facial values though.

Mfh is a more difficult topic. Kubo gives 115mm for Pyongyang and 116mm for Gyeonggido (ibid.), Shirokogorov 117mm for "Northern Korea and the Maritime Province of Siberia", Levin 132mm for his two samples, Tanabe 119 for Pyeongan-namdo, Arase et al. give 118mm for Hamgyeong and 120mm for Pyeongyang, Kohama and Satou 116 for Chungcheong, 118 and 120 for two samples from Gyeongsang-bukdo, 120 for Gyeongsang-namdo, 117 for Jeolla-bukdo and 120mm for Jeolla-namdo. Unfortunately, I don't know about the exact locations. But it seems to me as if the data imply that at least parts of the east and the south tend to be a tad more long-faced than the rest of Korea. Similarly, Shirokogorov's sample is 1mm less long-faced than his Han, Manchu, Daghur and Urulga Tungus samples. This could be due to a more marked influence of stocks like these northwestern and western neighbours of the Koreans on western and southern Koreans. Accordingly, northeastern Koreans in particular might be something more specific to Koreans.

One interesting anthroposcopic result of Levin's study was that hook noses in the narrow sense were relatively rare in Koreans from Hamgyeong-bukdo but by far more common in other northern Koreans.

Spread of convex noses among Koreans:
Levin's "other" northern Koreans: 20,8%
Levin's Hamgyeong-bukdo Koreans: 9,7%

Spread of noses convex as for the bony part of the nose among Koreans:
Levin's "other" northern Koreans: 37,4%
Zhang's Koreans who are possibly identical with the Jilin Koreans whom measured by Zhang: 36,8% (I suppose that Zhang means the bony part of the nose. Otherwise, his percentages would be strange, as ren already pointed out.)
Levin's Hamgyeong-bukdo Koreans: 23,9%

==> This is now interesting since, judging from these data, Zhang's Chinese Koreans are, for one or the other reason, not necessarily closely related to Levin's Hamgyeong Koreans. The idea of a discontinuity between NE Korea and Dongbei also seems to be supported by the fact that Shirokogorov reported having observed Dongbei Koreans with an Ainu-like hairiness, while Levin just reported having observed 2 of 129 men with a slightly hairy chest. It's still not obvious whether this real or apparent discontinuity is caused by people of southern Korean, Chinese or other ancestry among Dongbei Koreans.
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