Modern population

Mala

Mala

Mala is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mala), with 1 sample from Kerala, India.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Hakkipikki, North Kannadi and Pallan, and among ancient ones Tamils GBR, Telugu GBR and Shahr I Sokhta BA3 (Bronze Age).

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1a.

Period
Modern
Country
India
Origin
Kerala, India
Sampled near
Andhra Pradesh 17.72, 83.32
Samples
1
Catalogue
Mala

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
1HakkipikkiHakkipikki2.06
2North KannadiNorth_Kannadi2.08
3PallanPallan2.19
4MadigaMadiga2.29
5SakilliSakilli2.76
6KurumbaKurumba2.81
7Chamar Uttar PradeshChamar_Uttar_Pradesh3.01
8Vishwakarma KeralaVishwakarma_Kerala3.29
9KurichiyaKurichiya3.54
10ChamarChamar3.88
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Tamils GBRTamils_GBR5.52
2Telugu GBRTelugu_GBR6.53
3Shahr I Sokhta BA3 (Bronze Age)Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA37.30
4Roopkund A (Medieval, India)India_RoopkundA9.45
5Shahr I Sokhta BA2 (Bronze Age)Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA212.10
6Indus P (Bronze Age)Indus_P12.24
7Baniya Chettiar KeralaBaniya_Chettiar_Kerala12.74
8Shahr ISokhta BA2 (Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA213.91
9Katelai (Late Bronze Age)Katelai_LBA14.54
10Rajput Madhya Pradesh NorthRajput_Madhya_Pradesh_North15.31

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexSiteY-DNA
S_Mala-2MVishakapatmanR1a1a1b2a1a1a1f R-Y895
BR_Mala-1 outlierKerala, India
S_Mala-3 outlierMVishakapatmanH3b1 H-M6214