Modern population
Mende Sierra Leone
Mende_Sierra_Leone
Mende Sierra Leone is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Mende_Sierra_Leone), with 8 samples from Southern Province, Sierra Leone.
Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Igbo, Senegal Bedik and Cameroon Aghem, and among ancient ones Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo), Colonial African (Mexico) and Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo).
- Period
- Modern
- Country
- Sierra Leone
- Origin
- Southern Province, Sierra Leone
- Sampled near
- 8.50, -13.20
- Samples
- 8
- Published in
- LazaridisKrauseNature2014
- Catalogue
Mende_Sierra_Leone
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IgboIgbo | 2.22 |
| 2 | Senegal BedikSenegal_Bedik | 2.55 |
| 3 | Cameroon AghemCameroon_Aghem | 2.55 |
| 4 | Cameroon BafutCameroon_Bafut | 2.73 |
| 5 | Cameroon MboCameroon_Mbo | 2.78 |
| 6 | Tikar SouthTikar_South | 2.90 |
| 7 | LemandeLemande | 2.94 |
| 8 | GambianGambian | 3.07 |
| 9 | MandenkaMandenka | 3.11 |
| 10 | Cameroon BakokoCameroon_Bakoko | 3.19 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric | 4.29 |
| 2 | Colonial African (Mexico)Mexico_Colonial_African | 4.61 |
| 3 | Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric | 5.17 |
| 4 | Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Pemba_600BP | 6.65 |
| 5 | Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)Tanzania_Pemba_600BP | 7.13 |
| 6 | South Africa (c. 400 BP)South_Africa_400BP | 7.77 |
| 7 | Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)Taukome_1100BP | 8.15 |
| 8 | Munsa (c. 500 BP)Munsa_500BP | 8.38 |
| 9 | Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)Kenya_Kakapel_LIA | 11.87 |
| 10 | Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)Botswana_Xaro_EIA | 13.75 |
Individuals 8
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 |
|---|---|---|
HG03052 | F | Sierra Leone, modern, 1 |
HG03057 | M | Sierra Leone, modern, 1 |
HG03069 | M | Sierra Leone, modern, 1 |
HG03072 | M | Sierra Leone, modern, 1 |
HG03076 | F | Sierra Leone, modern, 1 |
HG03078 | M | Sierra Leone, modern, 1 |
HG03085 | F | Sierra Leone, modern, 1 |
HG03097 | F | Sierra Leone, modern, 1 |