Modern population

Eritrean

Eritrean

Eritrean is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Eritrean), with 3 samples from Central, Eritrea.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Ethiopian Tigray, Saho Eritrean and Ethiopian Afar, and among ancient ones Kulubnarti (Medieval), Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan) and Early Christian S (Medieval, Sudan).

Period
Modern
Country
Eritrea
Origin
Central, Eritrea
Sampled near
Maekel 15.00, 39.00
Samples
3
Catalogue
Eritrean

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
1Ethiopian TigrayEthiopian_Tigray1.48
2Saho EritreanSaho_Eritrean1.69
3Ethiopian AfarEthiopian_Afar2.48
4Ethiopian AmharaEthiopian_Amhara2.53
5Ethiopian AgawEthiopian_Agaw2.62
6Ethiopian JewEthiopian_Jew3.27
7Baggara Arab Chad ABaggara_Arab_Chad_A7.62
8Ethiopian OromoEthiopian_Oromo7.89
9Sudan Arab KababishSudan_Arab_Kababish8.00
10SomaliSomali10.20
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Kulubnarti (Medieval)MA_Kulubnarti3.55
2Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_R3.78
3Early Christian S (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_S3.81
4Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)Kenya_EarlyPastoralN4.93
5Early Christian (Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian5.73
6Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PNTanzania_PN9.66
7Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan10.07
8Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN10.43
9Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_PastoralN11.00
10Pastoral (Neolithic)Pastoral_N11.46

Individuals 3

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
Eritrean_1MEritrea, modern
Eritrean_2MEritrea, modern
Eritrean_3MEritrea, modern