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Borjigin-related genetic data
Topic Started: Jun 13 2011, 06:42:56 AM (276 Views)
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I don't know whether Borjigin is what should be called a "patriclan" in the narrow sense, a "clan" in the sense of an extended family (including adopted kin and in-laws) or a "tribe" in academic literature. Western authors typically to a "clan". But Bat-Ochir Bold refers to a "tribe", which probably still exists ("Mongolian nomadic society", pp. 112-3). In any case, there seem to be Borjigin-related genetic data.

On the one hand, the most wide-spread y hg among the Borjigins might point to their geographical and tribal origins. On the other hand, this hg might simply reflect where and among whom they were most popular. Therefore, one shouldn't automatically conclude any too direct relationship between Borjigins and the spread of any y hg.

Anyway, many Borjigin people seem to be within the big Mongolian star cluster of y hg C-M401+. But M48+ appears to be common among them, too. Apart from that, quite a lot of different lineages appear to be associated with the Borjigins. Maybe there is even variation according to regions. I don't know about the details of their distribution in Mongolia etc. But the big star cluster itself seems to be very wide-spread in southern Mongolia while being only relatively common in eastern Mongolia and possibly even less common in other parts of Mongolia. So it seems as if it couldn't spread much beyond a certain sphere of influence which collided with the interests of different Mongolian leaders to the east, north and west of the Borjigins.

Borjigin leaders who dominated in different regions competed against each other (May 2012, pp. 95-6). And maybe resources were restricted. So feuds among the Borjigins didn't result in a chain reaction in favour of all Borjigin-related Mongols. Rather, part of the Borjigin-related Mongols might have been forced to move far away from their original homeland. Some of them seem to have become Hazaras. Researchers should check the historical relationship between them and the so-called "Moghols" of Afghanistan, too, if there ever was any.

Sources:
Bold 2001: Mongolian nomadic society, pp. 112-3
Di Cristofaro et al. 2013: Afghan Hindu Kush
Жабагин et al. 2015: Связь изменчивости Y-хромосомы и родовой структуры: генофонд степной аристократии и духовенства казахов
May 2012: The Mongol conquests in world history, pp. 95-6
Yamamoto et al. 2013: Y-chromosome lineage in five regional Mongolian populations
Zerjal et al. 2003: The genetic legacy of the Mongols
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