Modern population

Kikuyu

Name: Kikuyu (Kikuyu)
Creator: Genoplot

Kikuyu

Kikuyu is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kikuyu), with 4 samples from Nairobi, Kenya.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Bulala, Baggara Arab Chad B and Sudan Daju, and among ancient ones Kakapel (Medieval, c. 900 BP), Historic 2 (Antiquity, Kenya) and Kenya (c. 400 BP) · KEN_400BP.

Period: Modern
Country: Kenya
Origin: Nairobi, Kenya
Sampled near: Central -0.40, 36.90
Samples: 4
Published in: LazaridisKrauseNature2014
Catalogue: Kikuyu

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	Bulala`Bulala`	4.84
2	Baggara Arab Chad B`Baggara_Arab_Chad_B`	5.39
3	Sudan Daju`Sudan_Daju`	6.50
4	Sandawe`Sandawe`	7.20
5	Zaghawa Sudan`Zaghawa_Sudan`	8.15
6	Zaghawa Chad`Zaghawa_Chad`	8.39
7	Sengwer`Sengwer`	8.50
8	Ogiek`Ogiek`	9.13
9	Chad Maba`Chad_Maba`	9.39
10	Baggara Arab Sudan`Baggara_Arab_Sudan`	9.63

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Kakapel (Medieval, c. 900 BP)`Kakapel_900BP`	10.90
2	Historic 2 (Antiquity, Kenya)`Kenya_Historic_2`	11.69
3	Kenya (c. 400 BP) · KEN_400BP`KEN_400BP`	12.30
4	Kenya (c. 400 BP) · Kenya_400BP`Kenya_400BP`	12.30
5	Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_Kakapel_LIA`	12.31
6	Pastoral (Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_IA_Pastoral`	12.98
7	Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP)`Ethiopia_4500BP`	13.41
8	Mota (Ethiopia)`ETH_Mota`	13.81
9	LSA (Antiquity, Kenya)`Kenya_LSA`	14.98
10	Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)`Pemba_600BP`	15.81

Individuals 4

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
`Ayodo_47K`	M	Nyeri
`Ayodo_61K`	F	Nyeri
`Ayodo_67K`	F	Nyeri
`Ayodo_83K`	F	Nyeri