Modern population

Egyptian A

Name: Egyptian A (EgyptianA)
Creator: Genoplot

EgyptianA

Egyptian A is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (EgyptianA), with 16 samples.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Egyptian, Egyptian B and Egyptian Copt, and among ancient ones Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age), Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt) and Hellenistic (Antiquity).

Period: Modern
Sampled near: Mansoura 31.02, 31.27
Sites: Mansoura (4)
Cairo
Kafar Sheikh
Tanta
Samples: 16
Published in: LazaridisKrauseNature2014
Catalogue: EgyptianA

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	Egyptian`Egyptian`	1.19
2	Egyptian B`EgyptianB`	1.85
3	Egyptian Copt`Egyptian_Copt`	3.76
4	Bedouin A`BedouinA`	4.04
5	Yemenite Hajjah`Yemenite_Hajjah`	5.14
6	Tunisian Rbaya`Tunisian_Rbaya`	5.74
7	Saudi B`SaudiB`	5.82
8	Palestinian`Palestinian`	5.90
9	Yemenite Ibb`Yemenite_Ibb`	5.99
10	Libyan`Libyan`	6.11

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian`	5.59
2	Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)`Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod`	7.08
3	Hellenistic (Antiquity)`Hellenistic`	7.55
4	Lebanese Muslim Sunni`Lebanese_Muslim_Sunni`	7.87
5	Hellenistic (Antiquity, Lebanon)`Lebanon_Hellenistic`	8.54
6	IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)`Israel_IBA`	9.11
7	Levant Beirut Hellenistic (Antiquity)`Levant_Beirut_Hellenistic`	9.15
8	Lebanese Muslim Shia`Lebanese_Muslim_Shia`	9.16
9	Levant Ashkelon IA2 (Iron Age)`Levant_Ashkelon_IA2`	9.56
10	Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)`Levant_Sidon_MBA`	9.64

Individuals 16

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.

Sample	Sex	Site
`10AJ136`
`12AJ129`
`12AJ136`
`1AJ137`
`3AJ137`
`4AJ136`
`8AJ136`
`Egypt12AQ172`	M	Mansoura
`Egypt17AQ176`	M	Kafar Sheikh
`Egypt1AQ172`	M	Mansoura
`Egypt22TD21`	M	Cairo
`Egypt3AQ172`	M	Tanta
`Egypt5AQ172`	M	Mansoura
`Egypt7AQ172`	M	Mansoura
`GRC10044035_Egyptian005`
`GRC10044037_Egyptian010`