Modern population

Mbuti

Name: Mbuti (Mbuti)
Creator: Genoplot

Mbuti

Mbuti is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mbuti), with 4 samples from Ituri, Congo.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Bakola, Bedzan and Baka, and among ancient ones Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi), Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi) and Shum Laka (Iron Age).

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups E1b (2) and B2b.

Period: Modern
Country: Congo
Origin: Ituri, Congo
Sampled near: North Kivu -1.00, 29.00
Samples: 4
Published in: MeyerPääboScience2012
MallickReichNature2016
Catalogue: Mbuti

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	Bakola`Bakola`	44.41
2	Bedzan`Bedzan`	45.76
3	Baka`Baka`	46.65
4	Biaka`Biaka`	48.13
5	Khomani San`Khomani_San`	48.93
6	Hadza`Hadza`	51.69
7	Bantu S E`Bantu_S.E.`	52.96
8	Bantu S W`Bantu_S.W.`	54.93
9	Sandawe`Sandawe`	55.41
10	Ngumba`Ngumba`	55.62

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Fingira LSA (Iron Age, c. 2500 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Fingira_LSA_2500BP`	40.91
2	Hora LSA (Hunter-Gatherer, c. 15500 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Hora_LSA_15500BP`	42.46
3	Shum Laka (Iron Age)`Shum_Laka`	42.59
4	SMA (Iron Age, Cameroon)`Cameroon_SMA`	42.67
5	MWI Fingira (Iron Age)`MWI_Fingira`	43.13
6	Hora (Neolithic, c. 9000 BP)`Hora_9000BP`	43.73
7	Fingira LSA (Chalcolithic, c. 6000 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Fingira_LSA_6000BP`	44.12
8	Hora LSA (Neolithic, c. 8500 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Hora_LSA_8500BP`	44.25
9	Kakapel LSA Kansyore (Bronze Age, Kenya)`Kenya_Kakapel_LSA_Kansyore`	44.66
10	Chencherere LSA (Bronze Age, c. 5200 BP, Malawi)`Malawi_Chencherere_LSA_5200BP`	44.90

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

B2b1 B-Y34326
E1b1a1a1a1c1a1a3a1d1b2 E-Y201976
E1b1a1a1a2a1a3a1d E-FT92286

Individuals 5

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.

Sample	Sex	Site	Y-DNA
`A_Mbuti-5.DG`	M	Congo, modern	E1b1a1a1a1c1a1a3a1d1b2 E-Y201976
`S_Mbuti-1.DG`	M	Congo, modern	E1b1a1a1a2a1a3a1d E-FT92286
`S_Mbuti-2.DG`	F	Congo, modern
`S_Mbuti-3.DG`	M	Congo, modern	B2b1 B-Y34326
`B_Mbuti-4.DG` outlier	M	Congo, modern	E1b1a1a1a2a1a3b1a2a3 E-Y203585