number of samples from china in a 2006 study: (a) the uyghurs who live primarily in far northwestern china 4.5% of 67. (b) the northern han 2.3% of 44. (c) the southern han 0% of 40. (d) tibet 0% of 105. (e) the zhuang who live in southern china or vietnam, 0% of 20. (f) the yao of southern china 0% of 60. (g) in manchuria or among the manchus in northeastern china, 0% of 93. (h) the evenks who live principally along the border of northeastern china 0% of 31. (i) the oroqen of northeastern china 0% of 22. (j) the yi who live principally in southern china and who speak a burmese language 0% of 43. (k) the tujia of central china, 0% of 47. a 2005 study that sampled five southern chinese groups found the following percentages of g: (1) the han less than 1% g in 166 samples. (2) the miao 0% of 58. (3) the she 0% of 51. (4) the tujia 0% of 49. (5) the yao 0% of 60. a 2008 study that concentrated on the island of hainan off the southeastern chinese coast found 0% g among 405 men from various island aborigine groups. a 2007 study that concentrated on the mang of yunnan province in southern china found no g among 65 samples. another 2007 study that sampled tibet found 0% g among 156 samples a 2010 study of northwestern china found g (m201) in 2% of 41 kazakhs; 2% of 31 tajikes; and 2% of 23 ozbeks. no g was found among tu, xibo, mongolian, tataer, uighur, yugu, kirghiz, russ, dongxiang, bao'an and salar persons. a 2011 study found only a few g samples among hundreds of samples around china of the majority han population. the han locales with single g samples were liaoning in the northeast with one g2b (m377) man, henan in the east central area with one g2a1 (p16) and henan again with one g2a (p15) man not m286 or p16. this same study found 2% of uyghur were g2a (p15) but not m286 or p16. these were all in xinjiang in the northwest. and among 62 hui men from ningxia in the north central area, 1.6% were g1 and 1.6% were g2a (p15) but not p16 or m286. no g at all found among hui elsewhere or in tibet (262 samples) or among the xibe, hazak, evenks, bulang, wa, jing, dai, zhuang, dong, mulao, buyi, li, maonan, shui, gelao, miao, yao, she, bai, hani, jingpo, lahu, lisu naxi, yi, tujia, hui, man or kyrgyz men sampled at various locations. in a newer genetic study, y-dna g-m201 was found in the genes of a few han chinese individuals from ningxia province and beijing. india in 405 samples taken in india in a 2005 study, 1.5% were g. in a 2009 study covering mostly new delhi and andhra pradesh 2% of 104 samples were g. in another study in 2008 that concentrated on southern indian locations, less than 1% of 155 samples was g in tamil nadu, and the g percentage in andhra pradesh was 1% of 167 samples. a study that sampled 1052 men within 25 diverse populations in india, only one man was g. this man was included in the samples labeled kash. pandit. a 2006 study that sampled 1074 men within 77 diverse indian populations found only one man in central india who was g. another study from 2009 found in 560 samples from northern india that 4% were g. the authors found no g among 96 bhargavas or 88 chaturvedis (both brahmins), but 1.7% of 118 other brahmins, 9.7% of 154 shia and 5.8% of 104 sunni samples were g. in a 2003 study of 286 men belonging to two tribal groups of andhra pradesh in southern india, as well as five caste groups from various parts of india, only one man in west bengal was g. in a 2006 study of 728 indian samples taken from among 36 populations and 18 castes, 1.2% were g. these were all g2a (p15+) men. in this study many of the g2a men were contained within the samples of the dravidian upper caste where g persons comprised 11.9% of 59 samples. in a 2010 study sampling 45 cochin jews from southern india, none were haplogroup g. the same study found 6.5% of 31 bene israel jews from mumbai were g. in the yhrd database, among 44 samples taken among the afridi pashtuns in uttar pradesh, northern india, 28 (64%) were found to belong to haplogroup g. in a 2010 study of muslims in india, in uttar pradesh in n. india 2.3% of 129 indian sunni men were g as were 8% of 161 indian shia there. in andhra pradesh in southern india, 8% of 25 iranian shia were g. among the dawoodi bohra of west and south india, no g was found in 76 samples, as was the case among mappla of southern india. in a 2009 study of 621 samples from various components of the indian caste system, g was found in 10.9% of 64 gujarat brahmins in the west and 3.3% there among 32 maharashtra brahmins and none among gujarat bhils. in the east, 11.1% of 27 bihar paswan were g, but none found among bihar brahmins and west bengal brahmins. in the central area, no g found among uttar pradesh kols and gonds, and among madhya pradesh brahmins, gonds and saharia. in the north, 3.6% of 49 punjab brahmins were g and 2% of 51 j&k kashmiri pandists, but none found among j&k kashmir gujars or among uttar pradesh or himachal brahmins. indonesia in 80 samples taken in indonesia, 0% were g. in another study confined to western new guinea none of 183 samples were g. in a study of the northwestern end of the island of new guinea among 162 samples from 13 populations none were g. in another study confined to the island of sumba no g was found among 352 samples. a study that gathered 552 samples in bali, 21 in western indonesia and 55 in eastern indonesia failed to find any g persons. iran of 33 samples taken in northern iran, 15.2% were g. of these 5 samples, 4 were g2a (p15+). and 12.8% of 117 samples from the south of that country were g. in this latter location the percentage of g1 almost equaled the g2a percentage. the authors did not provide information about locations sampled. of 91 samples taken at unstated location(s) in northern iran (2009), 2.2% were g. of 50 samples taken from the mazandarani in northern iran west of the caspian sea, 14% were g. likewise of 50 samples from the gilaki in the same area, 10% were g. of 50 samples taken from the talysh along the southwestern shore of the caspian sea in north central iran, 2% were g. samples were taken in another study in khuzestan province of west central iran, and 15% g found among 53 bakhtiari in izeh and 6% g among arabs in ahvaz. in a study of jewish men, there were no haplogroup g men among 49 men with iranian origins. japan in 259 samples taken among the following groups or locations in japan: ainu, aomori, okinawa, shizuoka, tokushima and kyushu 0% were g. in another study, among 23 samples taken in japan, none were g. kazakhstan two kazakh tribes are believed to have the highest levels of haplogroup g in the world. this is striking partly because most kazakh males fall into c3. a study of the kazakh madzhars (madjars) in the torgay area of kazakhstan, 86.7% of 45 samples were g. this is the highest concentration of g reported anywhere in the world so far. all the samples were g1. a limited study has found haplogroup g-m285 (g1) among four out of five argyns sampled in central kazakhstan. the argyns, who were previously known as the basmyl, were first documented in the 6th century, residing in what is now the xinjiang region of china. korea in 75 samples taken in korea in a 2006 study, 0% were g. among another 85 samples also taken in 2006 in korea, 0% were g. a 2011 study of 64 korean samples, again found no g among them. malaysia in 32 samples taken among malays (presumably from malaysia), 6.3% were g. mongolia in 149 samples taken in mongolia, 0.7% were g. on 47 samples taken also in 2006 in mongolia, 0% were g. nepal in 188 samples taken in a 2007 study in 3 locations in nepal, none were g. also in nepal among 173 tharus in terai, no g was found in a 2009 study. pakistan of 638 samples taken in pakistan, 2.7% were g. this same study found the percentage of g among 96 samples from pakistani pathans was 11.5%; among 44 samples from kalash men was 18.1% and among 97 samples from burusho men was 1% – all groups of northern pakistan. among 176 pakistani samples gathered in another study, g2a (p15+) men represented 4.6% of the total. g1 (m285+) men represented 0.6%, and g2b (m377+) men were 1.1%. papua new guinea in a large study of northern island melanesia within papua new guinea (2006) none of 685 samples was g. most of these were papuan-speaking persons. in 46 samples taken in papua new guinea (2006), 0% were g. in another study (2008) 19 samples taken on the island of new britain none were found to be g, and none of 52 samples in the trobriand islands were g. in this same study, on the mainland of papua new guinea none of 197 samples were listed as g. russian federation in a 2006 study, in russia among 98 altai samples, 1% were g. the altai or altay are a turkic group overlapping mongolia and south central russia. in this same study among the buryats, a mongol people who live principally just north of mongolia, 1.2% of 81 samples were g, and no g at all was found among 31 samples from the evens who live principally in the far northeastern area of russia. in another 2006 study concentrating on the southern siberian border region, going from west to east: (a) of 92 samples from the turkic altaian-kizhi, 1.1% g. (b) of 47 samples from the teleuts, 0% g. (c) of 51 samples from the turkic shors 0% g. (d) of 53 samples from the turkic khakassians, 0% g. (e) of 113 samples from the mongolized turkic tuvinians, 0.9% g. (f) of 36 samples from the turkic todjins, 0% g. (g) of 53 samples from the turkic tofalars, 0% g. (g) of 34 samples from sojots, 2.9% g. (h) of 238 samples from the mongol buryats, 0.4% g. much farther to the north among 50 evenks, 0% g. another 2006 study covered primarily the northeastern area of siberia where yakuts and yakut-speaking evenks live. the authors did not test for g, but the report suggests the men all belonged instead to the haplogroups shown in the report. a 2008 study concentrated on two populations of northwestern siberia. among 63 mansi, 4% were g, and among 106 khanty none were g. in a small study of 18 siberian samples, none were g. in a 2011 study of the altai republic among 119 samples, 3.4% were g1 and 1.7%% were g2a. sri lanka in 91 samples taken in sri lanka in one study 5.5% were g. in another study of sinhalese men, none of 39 samples was g. taiwan in 132 samples taken in taiwan, 0% were g. among 48 samples taken among taiwanese aboriginals, none were g. uzbekistan a study of 15 jewish men from uzbekistan found 0% were haplogroup g. this same study, however, referred to a mixture of studies in which 22% of other uzbek jewish men samples belonged to haplogroup g. vietnam in 70 samples taken in vietnam, 0% were g. europe albania among 55 samples taken in albania in a 2009 study, 1.8% were g2a (p15+). none were g2a3a (m406+). in a 2010 study, no g was found among sampled gabel and jevg men, but 1.2% of gheg and 3.3% of tosk were g (m201+). austria a survey of the general population of austria based on testing of snps is lacking, but an approximation