Modern population

Yoruba

Name: Yoruba (Yoruba)
Creator: Genoplot

Yoruba

Yoruba is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Yoruba), with 11 samples from Lagos, Nigeria.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Esan Nigeria, Igbo and Senegal Bedik, and among ancient ones Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo), Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo) and Colonial African (Mexico).

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup E1b (2).

Period: Modern
Country: Nigeria
Origin: Lagos, Nigeria
Sampled near: Oyo State 7.40, 3.90
Sites: Yoruba (9)
Nigeria, modern 11
Samples: 11
Published in: PattersonReichGenetics2012
The1000GenomesProjectConsortiumNature2015
Catalogue: Yoruba

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	Esan Nigeria`Esan_Nigeria`	0.94
2	Igbo`Igbo`	2.03
3	Senegal Bedik`Senegal_Bedik`	3.21
4	Mende Sierra Leone`Mende_Sierra_Leone`	3.54
5	Mandenka`Mandenka`	3.58
6	Gambian`Gambian`	3.79
7	Cameroon Aghem`Cameroon_Aghem`	4.07
8	Cameroon Bafut`Cameroon_Bafut`	4.17
9	Cameroon Bakoko`Cameroon_Bakoko`	4.21
10	Cameroon Mbo`Cameroon_Mbo`	4.25

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Kindoki Protohistoric (Congo)`Congo_Kindoki_Protohistoric`	6.66
2	Ngongo Mbata Protohistoric (Congo)`Congo_NgongoMbata_Protohistoric`	6.89
3	Colonial African (Mexico)`Mexico_Colonial_African`	7.25
4	Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)`Pemba_600BP`	8.76
5	Tanzania Pemba (Medieval, c. 600 BP)`Tanzania_Pemba_600BP`	9.02
6	Munsa (c. 500 BP)`Munsa_500BP`	10.07
7	South Africa (c. 400 BP)`South_Africa_400BP`	10.52
8	Taukome (Medieval, c. 1100 BP)`Taukome_1100BP`	10.64
9	Kakapel (Late Iron Age, Kenya)`Kenya_Kakapel_LIA`	13.60
10	Xaro (Early Iron Age, Botswana)`Botswana_Xaro_EIA`	17.02

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call of 6

E1b1a1a1a2a1a2a E-CTS618
E1b1a1a1a2a1a3b1a E-U290

Individuals 11

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	Y-DNA
`HGDP00944`	M	Nigeria, modern 11
`NA18486`	M	Yoruba	E1b1a1a1a2a1a3b1a E-U290
`NA18487`		Lagos, Nigeria
`NA18488`	F	Yoruba
`NA18489`	F	Yoruba
`NA18498`	M	Yoruba	E1b1a1a1a2a1a2a E-CTS618
`NA18499`	F	Yoruba
`NA18501`	M	Yoruba
`NA18504`	M	Yoruba
`NA18505`	F	Yoruba
`NA18507`	M	Yoruba