Modern population

Vellalar

Vellalar

Vellalar is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Vellalar), with 9 samples from Northen Province, Sri Lanka.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Velama, Velamas and Telugu, and among ancient ones Telugu GBR, Tamils GBR and Shahr I Sokhta BA3 (Bronze Age).

Period
Modern
Country
Sri Lanka
Origin
Northen Province, Sri Lanka
Sampled near
9.54, 80.23
Samples
9
Catalogue
Vellalar

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
1VelamaVelama1.27
2VelamasVelamas1.27
3TeluguTelugu1.33
4Thiyya ThrissurThiyya_Thrissur1.79
5Sri LankanSri_Lankan2.03
6Tamil Sri LankaTamil_Sri_Lanka2.05
7Saliya KeralaSaliya_Kerala2.21
8KammaKamma2.25
9EzhavaEzhava2.32
10Yadav TeluguYadav_Telugu2.54
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Telugu GBRTelugu_GBR1.16
2Tamils GBRTamils_GBR1.89
3Shahr I Sokhta BA3 (Bronze Age)Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA33.28
4Roopkund A (Medieval, India)India_RoopkundA3.70
5Shahr I Sokhta BA2 (Bronze Age)Shahr_I_Sokhta_BA25.59
6Indus P (Bronze Age)Indus_P5.78
7Baniya Chettiar KeralaBaniya_Chettiar_Kerala6.17
8Shahr ISokhta BA2 (Bronze Age, Iran)Iran_ShahrISokhta_BA27.28
9Katelai (Late Bronze Age)Katelai_LBA7.99
10Aligrama (Iron Age, Pakistan)Pakistan_Aligrama_IA9.09

Individuals 9

The samples behind this population in the catalogue.

SampleOrigin
mondal_VV1-01.SGNorthen Province, Sri Lanka
mondal_VV1-03.SGNorthen Province, Sri Lanka
mondal_VV1-04.SGNorthen Province, Sri Lanka
mondal_VV1-05.SGNorthen Province, Sri Lanka
mondal_VV1-06.SGNorthen Province, Sri Lanka
mondal_VV1-07.SGNorthen Province, Sri Lanka
mondal_VV1-14.SGNorthen Province, Sri Lanka
mondal_VV1-16.SGNorthen Province, Sri Lanka
mondal_VV1-20.SGNorthen Province, Sri Lanka