Modern population

Ethiopian Afar

Name: Ethiopian Afar (Ethiopian_Afar)
Creator: Genoplot

Ethiopian_Afar

Ethiopian Afar is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ethiopian_Afar), with 3 samples from Afar, Ethiopia.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Ethiopian Amhara, Ethiopian Tigray and Ethiopian Jew, and among ancient ones Kulubnarti (Medieval), Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan) and Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya).

Period: Modern
Country: Ethiopia
Origin: Afar, Ethiopia
Sampled near: Amhara 12.81, 37.05
Samples: 3
Catalogue: Ethiopian_Afar

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	Ethiopian Amhara`Ethiopian_Amhara`	1.26
2	Ethiopian Tigray`Ethiopian_Tigray`	1.50
3	Ethiopian Jew`Ethiopian_Jew`	1.73
4	Ethiopian Agaw`Ethiopian_Agaw`	1.78
5	Saho Eritrean`Saho_Eritrean`	2.13
6	Eritrean`Eritrean`	2.48
7	Ethiopian Oromo`Ethiopian_Oromo`	6.01
8	Sudan Arab Kababish`Sudan_Arab_Kababish`	6.56
9	Baggara Arab Chad A`Baggara_Arab_Chad_A`	6.90
10	Somali`Somali`	8.24

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Kulubnarti (Medieval)`MA_Kulubnarti`	3.63
2	Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan)`Sudan_EarlyChristian_R`	3.85
3	Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)`Kenya_EarlyPastoralN`	3.93
4	Early Christian S (Medieval, Sudan)`Sudan_EarlyChristian_S`	4.31
5	Early Christian (Sudan)`Sudan_EarlyChristian`	5.72
6	Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN`Tanzania_PN`	7.97
7	Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan`	8.27
8	Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN`	8.58
9	Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_PastoralN`	9.18
10	Pastoral (Neolithic)`Pastoral_N`	9.67

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

Sample	Origin
`AFAR4`	Afar, Ethiopia
`AFAR8`	Afar, Ethiopia
`AFAR9`	Afar, Ethiopia