Modern population

Biaka

Biaka

Biaka is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Biaka), with 6 samples from Mambéré-Kadéï, Central African.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Baka, Bakola and Bedzan, and among ancient ones Shum Laka (Iron Age), SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon) and Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi).

Period
Modern
Origin
Mambéré-Kadéï, Central African
Sampled near
Lobaye Prefecture 4.00, 17.00
Samples
6
Catalogue
Biaka

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
#PopulationDistance
1BakaBaka4.63
2BakolaBakola7.42
3BedzanBedzan9.22
4Bantu S EBantu_S.E.25.89
5Bantu S WBantu_S.W.27.70
6NgumbaNgumba27.74
7NyanekaNyaneka28.81
8MakhuwaMakhuwa28.85
9RongaRonga29.08
10KongoKongo29.12
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Shum Laka (Iron Age)Shum_Laka15.23
2SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon)Cameroon_SMA15.31
3Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP23.07
4MWI Fingira (Iron Age)MWI_Fingira23.25
5Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Hora_LSA_15500BP23.25
6Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP23.60
7Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi)Malawi_Chencherere_LSA_5200BP23.94
8MWI Chencherere (Bronze Age)MWI_Chencherere24.10
9Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)Hora_9000BP24.15
10Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)Botswana_Xaro_EIA24.61

Individuals 6

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexSite
HGDP00454MCentral African Republic, modern
HGDP00455MCentral African Republic, modern
HGDP00457MCentral African Republic, modern
HGDP00458MCentral African Republic, modern
HGDP00459MCentral African Republic, modern
HGDP00460MCentral African Republic, modern