Modern population

Saudi B

SaudiB

Saudi B is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (SaudiB), with 12 samples from Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Yemenite Ibb, Yemenite Dhamar and Yemenite Hadramaut, and among ancient ones Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age), Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt) and Hellenistic (Antiquity).

Period
Modern
Origin
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Sampled near
Makkah 21.45, 39.21
Samples
12
Catalogue
SaudiB

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
1Yemenite IbbYemenite_Ibb2.26
2Yemenite DhamarYemenite_Dhamar2.58
3Yemenite HadramautYemenite_Hadramaut2.69
4Yemenite AmranYemenite_Amran2.70
5Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda2.97
6Saudi JizanSaudi_Jizan3.60
7Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib3.61
8Yemenite HajjahYemenite_Hajjah3.82
9Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew3.89
10Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca3.92
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian4.71
2Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod6.00
3Hellenistic (Antiquity)Hellenistic6.33
4Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA6.97
5IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_IBA7.18
6Tell Qarassa Umayyad (Medieval, Syria)Syria_TellQarassa_Umayyad7.89
7Hellenistic (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_Hellenistic7.98
8Lebanon (Middle Bronze Age)Lebanon_MBA8.29
9Levant Sidon (Middle Bronze Age)Levant_Sidon_MBA8.43
10Israel (Middle–Late Bronze Age)Israel_MLBA8.58

Individuals 16

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average.

SampleOrigin
APPG7555954Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7555955Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7555956Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836394Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836395Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836397Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836402Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836405Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836406Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836407Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7850840Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7850841Mecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7555957 outlierMecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836396 outlierMecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836399 outlierMecca, Saudi Arabia
APPG7836401 outlierMecca, Saudi Arabia