Modern population

Tikar South

Name: Tikar South (Tikar_South)
Creator: Genoplot

Tikar_South

Tikar South is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tikar_South), with 2 samples from South Province, Cameroon.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Cameroon Aghem, Cameroon Bafut and Lemande, and among ancient ones Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo), Colonial African (Mexico) and Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo).

Period: Modern
Country: Cameroon
Origin: South Province, Cameroon
Sampled near: Centre 5.85, 11.58
Samples: 2
Catalogue: Tikar_South

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	Cameroon Aghem`Cameroon_Aghem`	1.46
2	Cameroon Bafut`Cameroon_Bafut`	1.50
3	Lemande`Lemande`	1.58
4	Cameroon Mbo`Cameroon_Mbo`	1.60
5	Umbundu`Umbundu`	1.69
6	Ganguela`Ganguela`	1.71
7	Kongo`Kongo`	1.74
8	Ngumba`Ngumba`	2.18
9	Nyaneka`Nyaneka`	2.21
10	Cameroon Bangwa`Cameroon_Bangwa`	2.43

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)`Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric`	2.23
2	Colonial African (Mexico)`Mexico_Colonial_African`	2.85
3	Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)`Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric`	3.36
4	Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)`Pemba_600BP`	4.61
5	Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)`Tanzania_Pemba_600BP`	5.13
6	Munsa (c. 500 BP)`Munsa_500BP`	6.18
7	South Africa (c. 400 BP)`South_Africa_400BP`	6.43
8	Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)`Taukome_1100BP`	7.70
9	Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_Kakapel_LIA`	10.17
10	Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)`Botswana_Xaro_EIA`	13.37

Individuals 2

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

Sample	Origin
`T_Tikar_South-1.DG`	South Province, Cameroon
`T_Tikar_South-2.DG`	South Province, Cameroon