Ancestral Lines
DNA of the Chechen teips
Each of the five main paternal lines among Chechens has a story of its own: one is shared with the Ingush, another with Dagestan, the third is found in the Caucasus almost only among Chechens, the fourth is shared with the Native Americans, and the fifth is the main line of the western neighbours.
Corpus composition
Share of each line. The rest is mostly R1a, R1b, T1a.
Lines
- J2 The main Nakh line 46%. A shared letter, different teip branches.
- J1 Shared with Dagestan 25% among Chechens, 3% among the Ingush.
- L1 Rare across the Caucasus Nearly half of its Chechen carriers descend from one ancestor.
- Q1 Kinship across the ocean An ancestor shared with Native Americans lived 17,700 years ago.
- G2 The western neighbours' line 74% among Ossetians, 3% among Chechens.
- R1aR1bT1a Three rare lines Together, 3.7%; each has its own geography.
Which teips does your teip converge with — and when did the lines diverge?
The full tree of a line, with the ages of all its branches, the gars and nekye within each teip, and a comparison of teips — in the app.
Open in Google Play The “DNA of Nations” app