Modern population

Kongo

Name: Kongo (Kongo)
Creator: Genoplot

Kongo

Kongo is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Kongo), with 1 sample from Brazzaville, Angola.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Ganguela, Umbundu and Tikar South, and among ancient ones Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo), Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo) and Colonial African (Mexico).

Period: Modern
Country: Angola
Origin: Brazzaville, Angola
Sampled near: Zaire -6.63, 14.30
Samples: 1
Published in: MallickReichNature2016
Catalogue: Kongo

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	Ganguela`Ganguela`	1.30
2	Umbundu`Umbundu`	1.54
3	Tikar South`Tikar_South`	1.74
4	Nyaneka`Nyaneka`	2.06
5	Lemande`Lemande`	2.22
6	Cameroon Mbo`Cameroon_Mbo`	2.28
7	Cameroon Bafut`Cameroon_Bafut`	2.31
8	Cameroon Aghem`Cameroon_Aghem`	2.44
9	Ngumba`Ngumba`	2.47
10	Tswa`Tswa`	2.67

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)`Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric`	2.26
2	Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)`Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric`	2.83
3	Colonial African (Mexico)`Mexico_Colonial_African`	3.02
4	Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)`Pemba_600BP`	3.97
5	Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)`Tanzania_Pemba_600BP`	4.53
6	Munsa (c. 500 BP)`Munsa_500BP`	5.23
7	South Africa (c. 400 BP)`South_Africa_400BP`	5.94
8	Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)`Taukome_1100BP`	7.95
9	Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_Kakapel_LIA`	9.67
10	Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)`Botswana_Xaro_EIA`	13.27

Individuals 1

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
`S_Kongo-2`	F	Bandevouri-Fang