 The Qongyrat tribe of Kazakhs are notable for the extremely high frequency among them (64/95 = 67.37%) of Y-DNA that belongs to haplogroup C-M407 (younger than 7000 years), a clade that otherwise has been observed with greatest frequency among Buryats (117/217 = 53.9%, 40/80 = 50.0%, 86/298 = 28.9% (mostly northern and western)) and other indigenous peoples of Buryatia (15/28 = 53.6% Sojots, 27/51 = 52.9% Hamnigans).Members of C-M407 also have been found with lower frequency among Mongols in Mongolia, Kalmyks (especially Dörwöds), Manchus in China, and Yakuts in Sakha Republic and sporadically among Han Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and Armenians.Dariga Nazarbayeva's children are Kongyrat.