Modern population

Madagascar Mikea

Madagascar_Mikea

Madagascar Mikea is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Madagascar_Mikea), with 11 samples from Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Madagascar Temoro, Madagascar Vezo and Fulani Burkina Faso Ziniare, and among ancient ones Kenya (c. 400 BP) · KEN_400BP, Kenya (c. 400 BP) · Kenya_400BP and Pastoral (Iron Age, Kenya).

Period
Modern
Country
Madagascar
Origin
Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
Sampled near
Atsimo-Andrefana -21.75, 43.36
Samples
11
Catalogue
Madagascar_Mikea

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
1Madagascar TemoroMadagascar_Temoro1.26
2Madagascar VezoMadagascar_Vezo1.98
3Fulani Burkina Faso ZiniareFulani_Burkina_Faso_Ziniare20.41
4FulaniFulani21.47
5SandaweSandawe21.72
6Baggara Arab Chad BBaggara_Arab_Chad_B22.00
7KikuyuKikuyu22.12
8Baggara Arab SudanBaggara_Arab_Sudan22.21
9Fulani GuineaFulani_Guinea22.99
10ElmoloElmolo23.24
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Kenya (c. 400 BP) · KEN_400BPKEN_400BP22.15
2Kenya (c. 400 BP) · Kenya_400BPKenya_400BP22.15
3Pastoral (Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_IA_Pastoral25.06
4Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LIA25.09
5Historic 2 (Antiquity, Kenya)Kenya_Historic_225.39
6Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 1400 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_1400BP25.50
7Molo Cave Pastoral N (Medieval, Kenya)Kenya_MoloCave_PastoralN26.21
8LSA (Antiquity, Kenya)Kenya_LSA26.30
9Ethiopia (Bronze Age, c. 4500 BP)Ethiopia_4500BP26.41
10Kakapel (Medieval, c. 900 BP)Kakapel_900BP26.62

Individuals 15

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

SampleOrigin
GSM1293672Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293673Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293674Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293679Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293683Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293684Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293685Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293686Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293690Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293691Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293692Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293676 outlierAtsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293680 outlierAtsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293682 outlierAtsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
GSM1293687 outlierAtsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar