Modern population

Saharawi

Saharawi

Saharawi is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Saharawi), with 22 samples from Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Berber MAR ERR, Berber MAR TIZ and Moroccan, and among ancient ones Guanche (Medieval, Canary Islands), Canary Islands Guanche (Medieval) and Morocco (Late Neolithic) · Morocco_LN.

Period
Modern
Country
Morocco
Origin
Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
Sampled near
Guelmim-Es Semara 27.30, -8.90
Samples
22
Catalogue
Saharawi

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
1Berber MAR ERRBerber_MAR_ERR2.02
2Berber MAR TIZBerber_MAR_TIZ2.14
3MoroccanMoroccan3.60
4MozabiteMozabite4.02
5AlgerianAlgerian5.18
6Tunisian Berber MatmataTunisian_Berber_Matmata5.62
7TunisianTunisian6.62
8Tunisian Berber TamezretTunisian_Berber_Tamezret6.73
9Berber Tunisia ChenBerber_Tunisia_Chen7.12
10Berber Tunisia SenBerber_Tunisia_Sen7.24
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Guanche (Medieval, Canary Islands)CanaryIslands_Guanche6.08
2Canary Islands Guanche (Medieval)Canary_Islands_Guanche6.59
3Morocco (Late Neolithic) · Morocco_LNMorocco_LN13.30
4Morocco (Late Neolithic) · MAR_LNMAR_LN14.42
5Early Christian (Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian16.30
6Early Christian S (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_S16.32
7Nazari Period Late Muslim (Medieval, Spain)Spain_NazariPeriod_LateMuslim16.60
8Early Christian R (Medieval, Sudan)Sudan_EarlyChristian_R17.01
9Sardinia Punic 1 (Iron Age, Italy)Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_117.11
10Kulubnarti (Medieval)MA_Kulubnarti17.32

Individuals 24

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.

SampleSexSite
SAH10Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH12Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH13Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH14Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH18FClose to the Algerian border
SAH2Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH21FClose to the Algerian border
SAH22Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH24FClose to the Algerian border
SAH27FClose to the Algerian border
SAH31Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH34FClose to the Algerian border
SAH40Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH41Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH44Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH48Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH49Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH58Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH59Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH6Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH7Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH9FClose to the Algerian border
SAH3 outlierLaâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
SAH8 outlierLaâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco