(2004) tested a sample of twenty-one Nivkh males and found that eight of them (38%) belonged to Haplogroup C-M217, a haplogroup which is also common among Koryaks, Itelmens, Yukaghirs, Tungusic peoples, and Mongols, six of them (29%) belonged to Haplogroup K-M9(xO2-M122, O1a-M119, P-P27), four of them (19%) belonged to Haplogroup P-P27(xR1a1-SRY10831.2), two of them (9.5%) belonged to Haplogroup R1a1-SRY10831.2, and one of them (4.8%) belonged to Haplogroup BT-SRY10831.1(xC-RPS4Y711, DE-YAP, K-M9).