Modern population

Saudi Mecca

Name: Saudi Mecca (Saudi_Mecca)
Creator: Genoplot

Saudi_Mecca

Saudi Mecca is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Saudi_Mecca), with 2 samples from Saudi Arabia.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Yemenite Ma'rib, Yemenite Jew and Yemenite Al Jawf, and among ancient ones Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age), Jordan (Early Bronze Age) and Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt).

Period: Modern
Country: Saudi Arabia
Origin: Saudi Arabia
Samples: 2
Catalogue: Saudi_Mecca

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	Yemenite Ma'rib`Yemenite_Ma'rib`	2.32
2	Yemenite Jew`Yemenite_Jew`	2.33
3	Yemenite Al Jawf`Yemenite_Al_Jawf`	2.37
4	Yemenite Dhamar`Yemenite_Dhamar`	2.37
5	Yemenite Amran`Yemenite_Amran`	2.62
6	Yemenite Al Bayda`Yemenite_Al_Bayda`	2.70
7	Saudi Najd`Saudi_Najd`	2.82
8	Bedouin B`BedouinB`	2.83
9	Saudi`Saudi`	3.02
10	Saudi A`SaudiA`	3.19

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian`	4.23
2	Jordan (Early Bronze Age)`Jordan_EBA`	4.35
3	Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)`Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod`	4.61
4	Tell Qarassa Umayyad (Medieval, Syria)`Syria_TellQarassa_Umayyad`	5.45
5	IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)`Israel_IBA`	5.54
6	Hellenistic (Antiquity)`Hellenistic`	6.10
7	Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)`Lebanon_MBA`	7.03
8	Jordan (Late Bronze Age)`Jordan_LBA`	7.12
9	Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)`Levant_Sidon_MBA`	7.30
10	Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)`Israel_MLBA`	7.34

Individuals 2

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

Sample	Origin
`Mecca01`	Saudi Arabia
`Mecca02`	Saudi Arabia