Modern population

Baka

Name: Baka (Baka)
Creator: Genoplot

Baka

Baka is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Baka), with 2 samples from East Region, Cameroon.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Bakola, Biaka and Bedzan, and among ancient ones Shum Laka (Iron Age), SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon) and Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana).

Period: Modern
Country: Cameroon
Origin: East Region, Cameroon
Sampled near: East 2.12, 14.73
Samples: 2
Catalogue: Baka

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bakola`Bakola`	3.92
2	Biaka`Biaka`	4.63
3	Bedzan`Bedzan`	4.85
4	Bantu S E`Bantu_S.E.`	21.70
5	Bantu S W`Bantu_S.W.`	23.54
6	Ngumba`Ngumba`	23.68
7	Nyaneka`Nyaneka`	24.69
8	Makhuwa`Makhuwa`	24.73
9	Ronga`Ronga`	24.97
10	Yao`Yao`	25.02

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Shum Laka (Iron Age)`Shum_Laka`	11.25
2	SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon)`Cameroon_SMA`	11.31
3	Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)`Botswana_Xaro_EIA`	20.49
4	MWI Fingira (Iron Age)`MWI_Fingira`	20.76
5	Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP`	20.77
6	Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Hora_LSA_15500BP`	20.90
7	Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP`	21.21
8	Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Chencherere_LSA_5200BP`	21.51
9	Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)`Hora_9000BP`	21.57
10	MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age)`MWI_Chencherere`	21.59

Individuals 2

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

Sample	Origin
`T_Baka-1.DG`	East Region, Cameroon
`T_Baka-2.DG`	East Region, Cameroon