Modern population

Ethiopian Wolayta

Name: Ethiopian Wolayta (Ethiopian_Wolayta)
Creator: Genoplot

Ethiopian_Wolayta

Ethiopian Wolayta is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ethiopian_Wolayta), with 1 sample from Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Somali Kenya, Somali and Rendille, and among ancient ones Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP), Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya) and Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya).

Period: Modern
Country: Ethiopia
Origin: Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
Sampled near: Amhara 12.81, 37.05
Samples: 1
Catalogue: Ethiopian_Wolayta

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	Somali Kenya`Somali_Kenya`	2.88
2	Somali`Somali`	3.61
3	Rendille`Rendille`	3.97
4	Ethiopian Oromo`Ethiopian_Oromo`	4.08
5	Iraqw`Iraqw`	4.81
6	Sudan Arab Kababish`Sudan_Arab_Kababish`	7.05
7	Datog`Datog`	8.65
8	Ethiopian Jew`Ethiopian_Jew`	8.85
9	Ethiopian Amhara`Ethiopian_Amhara`	9.53
10	Ethiopian Agaw`Ethiopian_Agaw`	9.62

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Tanzania Luxmanda (Iron Age, c. 3000 BP)`Tanzania_Luxmanda_3000BP`	2.15
2	Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_PastoralN`	3.42
3	Pastoral N Elmenteitan (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_PastoralN_Elmenteitan`	3.73
4	Lukenya Hill Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)`Kenya_LukenyaHill_PastoralN`	4.01
5	Tanzania PN (Iron Age) · Tanzania_PN`Tanzania_PN`	4.43
6	Hyrax Hill Pastoral N (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_HyraxHill_PastoralN`	4.71
7	Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)`Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN`	5.65
8	Pastoral (Neolithic)`Pastoral_N`	6.29
9	Molo Cave (Iron Age, c. 1500 BP)`MoloCave_1500BP`	7.05
10	Early Pastoral N (Bronze Age, Kenya)`Kenya_EarlyPastoralN`	8.88

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average.

Sample	Origin
`WOLAYTA5`	Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
`WOLAYTA1` outlier	Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
`WOLAYTA7` outlier	Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia