Modern population

Tunisian

Name: Tunisian (Tunisian)
Creator: Genoplot

Tunisian

Tunisian is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Tunisian), with 8 samples from Tataouine, Tunisia.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Berber Tunisia Sen, Tunisian Berber Matmata and Algerian, and among ancient ones Canary Islands Guanche (Medieval), Guanche (Medieval, Canary Islands) and Morocco (Late Neolithic) · Morocco_LN.

Period: Modern
Country: Tunisia
Origin: Tataouine, Tunisia
Sampled near: Tunis 36.82, 10.17
Samples: 8
Published in: LazaridisKrauseNature2014
Catalogue: Tunisian

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	Berber Tunisia Sen`Berber_Tunisia_Sen`	1.60
2	Tunisian Berber Matmata`Tunisian_Berber_Matmata`	1.89
3	Algerian`Algerian`	2.58
4	Libyan`Libyan`	2.84
5	Tunisian Berber Zraoua`Tunisian_Berber_Zraoua`	3.05
6	Tunisian Berber Tamezret`Tunisian_Berber_Tamezret`	3.23
7	Moroccan North`Moroccan_North`	3.69
8	Mozabite`Mozabite`	3.81
9	Moroccan`Moroccan`	4.16
10	Tunisia`Tunisia`	4.23

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Canary Islands Guanche (Medieval)`Canary_Islands_Guanche`	4.41
2	Guanche (Medieval, Canary Islands)`CanaryIslands_Guanche`	4.47
3	Morocco (Late Neolithic) · Morocco_LN`Morocco_LN`	9.33
4	Morocco (Late Neolithic) · MAR_LN`MAR_LN`	11.19
5	Nazari Period Late Muslim (Medieval, Spain)`Spain_NazariPeriod_LateMuslim`	11.27
6	Sardinia Punic 1 (Iron Age, Italy)`Italy_Sardinia_IA_Punic_1`	11.76
7	Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)`Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian`	11.79
8	Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)`Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod`	12.72
9	Hellenistic (Antiquity)`Hellenistic`	12.95
10	Lebanese Muslim Sunni`Lebanese_Muslim_Sunni`	14.03

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
`Tunisian200000`	F	Tunis
`Tunisian20A5`	F	Tunis
`Tunisian20B4`	M	Tunis
`Tunisian20C1`	M	Tunis
`Tunisian20C4`	F	Tunis
`Tunisian20D1`	F	Tunis
`Tunisian20D4`	F	Tunis
`Tunisian20F4`	M	Tunis