Modern population

Mandenka

Mandenka

Mandenka is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mandenka), with 15 samples from Upper River, Gambia.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Senegal Bedik, Gambian and Mende Sierra Leone, and among ancient ones Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo), Colonial African (Mexico) and Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo).

Period
Modern
Country
Gambia
Origin
Upper River, Gambia
Sampled near
Mali Prefecture 12.00, -12.00
Samples
15
Catalogue
Mandenka

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
1Senegal BedikSenegal_Bedik1.11
2GambianGambian1.15
3Mende Sierra LeoneMende_Sierra_Leone3.11
4IgboIgbo3.54
5YorubaYoruba3.58
6LakaLaka3.82
7Esan NigeriaEsan_Nigeria3.90
8Cameroon AghemCameroon_Aghem3.99
9KabaKaba4.01
10Cameroon BakokoCameroon_Bakoko4.14
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric5.98
2Colonial African (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_African6.38
3Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric6.39
4Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Pemba_600BP7.67
5Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_600BP8.06
6Munsa (c. 500 BP)Munsa_500BP9.22
7South Africa (c. 400 BP)South_Africa_400BP9.54
8Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Taukome_1100BP10.19
9Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LIA11.72
10Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)Botswana_Xaro_EIA15.02

Individuals 18

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
HGDP00904MSenegal, modern
HGDP00905MSenegal, modern
HGDP00906MSenegal, modern
HGDP00907MSenegal, modern
HGDP00908MSenegal, modern
HGDP00909FSenegal, modern
HGDP00910FSenegal, modern
HGDP00911MSenegal, modern
HGDP00912MSenegal, modern
HGDP00915FSenegal, modern
HGDP00917FSenegal, modern
HGDP01199MSenegal, modern
HGDP01200MSenegal, modern
HGDP01201FSenegal, modern
HGDP01202MSenegal, modern
B_Mandenka-3 outlierMSenegal, modernE1b1b1a1a1c2 E-Y597113
HGDP00913 outlierMSenegal, modern
HGDP00918 outlierFSenegal, modern