Empress Ashina

Empress Ashina was a princess of the royal clan of the Göktürk Khaganate, the steppe empire that stretched from Manchuria to the Black Sea, married to Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou to seal a nomad-imperial alliance. Her genome revealed almost pure Northeast-Asian ancestry, pinpointing the homeland of the Türkic royal house. She and her husband form one of the very few ancient imperial couples sequenced together.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in The Göktürk genome of Empress Ashina.

Every Ancestry Map includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because this is a single real individual, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances. That is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that Empress Ashina is your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about Ancestry Map, the full Global25 report.

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  Who was Empress Ashina?

  Empress Ashina (551-582 CE, Xianyang, China) is one of the Historical figures entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by one sequenced ancient genome published in the study "The Göktürk genome of Empress Ashina".

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  What does "matching" Empress Ashina mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Is Empress Ashina my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near this individual's in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to Empress Ashina?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers. Browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

• Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou543-578 CE

• The Christians of Nicaea's Sunken Basilicac. 350-700 CE

• The Türks of Gurvan Dovc. 540-635 CE

• The Byzantine Villagers of Chhîmc. 430-760 CE

• The Kunbábony Avar Khagan630-670 CE

• The Early Medieval Georgiansc. 400-900 CE

• The Alans of the North Caucasusc. 350-1100 CE

• The Chen Clan of the Tang Frontierearly 8th century CE

• The Georgians of Late Antiquity2nd-6th century CE

• The Salme Ship Warriorsc. 750 CE

• The Early Medieval Slavs of Velimc. 650-950 CE

• The Princess of Hasslebenc. 300 CE