The Jadoon,[a] also known as Gadoon[2] or Jadun (Pashto: ږدون،ګدون،سدون،زدون; Hindko: جدون) is a Pashtun tribe primarily residing in the Hazara and Kohistan regions as well as in the southern slopes of Mahaban mountains called the Gadoon area in the Swabi district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

[2] Sir Olaf Caroe, a British Raj-era administrator of NWFP, counts Jadoon tribe under Panni sub-division in the genealogy of the Gharghasht in his book The Pathans.

O3-M122 was absent in the Sayyid (Syed) population and appeared in low numbers among Tanolis, Gujars and Yousafzais.

[10][11] 56.25% of Jadoons in another test carried West Eurasian maternal Haplogroup H (mtDNA).

[12] Dental morphology of the Swabi Jadoons was also analyzed and compared to other groups in the regions like Yousufzais and Sayyids.