Yoruba people Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Genetics == Genetic studies have shown the Yoruba to cluster most closely with West African peoples, followed by Central and Eastern African groups speaking [[Niger-Congo languages]].<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Michael C. Campbell|author2=Sarah A. Tishkoff |title=African Genetic Diversity: Implications for Human Demographic History, Modern Human Origins, and Complex Disease Mapping, Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics |volume=9 |website=sciencemag|date=September 2008|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2009/04/30/1172257.DC1/Tishkoff.SOM.pdf|access-date=22 December 2013}}</ref>[[File:Distribution of haplogroup e1b1a in Rosa 2007.jpg|thumb|right|Map showing the average distribution and concentration of the haplogroup E1b1a ([[Haplogroup E-M2|E-M2]]), the most common Sub-Saharan African-associated clade.|142px]]Yoruba people belong largely to the [[Haplogroup E-M2#E1b1a1|E1b1a1]] subclade of the [[Haplogroup E-M2|E-M2]] haplogroup along with the [[Ewe people|Ewe]], [[Ga-Adangbe people|Ga]], and [[Bamileke people|Bamileke]] peoples of West Africa and Cameroon. Genetic studies have also found evidence of West-Eurasian admixture in Yoruba populations, with up to 8.6% West-Eurasian ancestry being found among modern Yoruba samples.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes|first1=Anders|last1=Bergström|first2=Shane A.|last2=McCarthy|first3=Ruoyun|last3=Hui|first4=Mohamed A.|last4=Almarri|first5=Qasim|last5=Ayub|first6=Petr|last6=Danecek|first7=Yuan|last7=Chen|first8=Sabine|last8=Felkel|first9=Pille|last9=Hallast|first10=Jack|last10=Kamm|first11=Hélène|last11=Blanché|first12=Jean-François|last12=Deleuze|first13=Howard|last13=Cann|first14=Swapan|last14=Mallick|first15=David|last15=Reich|first16=Manjinder S.|last16=Sandhu|first17=Pontus|last17=Skoglund|first18=Aylwyn|last18=Scally|first19=Yali|last19=Xue|first20=Richard|last20=Durbin|first21=Chris|last21=Tyler-Smith|date=20 March 2020|journal=Science|volume=367|issue=6484|doi=10.1126/science.aay5012|pmid=32193295|pmc=7115999}}</ref> This admixture may have been introduced 7,500–10,500 years ago from North Africa during the Green Saharan period.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Gurdasani|first1=Deepti|last2=Carstensen|first2=Tommy|display-authors=1|date=3 December 2014|title=The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13997.pdf|url-status=live|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=517|issue=7534|pages=327–332|bibcode=2015Natur.517..327G|doi=10.1038/nature13997|pmid=25470054|pmc=4297536|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516190950/https://www.well.ox.ac.uk/~gav/GEIA/Durban_2015/Journal%20Club/African%20Genome%20Variation%20Project/2014_Gurdasani_et_al_AGVP_Nature_517_327.pdf|archive-date=16 May 2021|doi-access=free}}</ref> Another full genome study on African populations found that the Yoruba (Yoruba/Esen cluster of West Africa) received varying degrees of West-Eurasian admixture, although generally at low frequency, indirectly through contact with Northern African pastoralists.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Serra-Vidal |first1=Gerard |last2=Lucas-Sanchez |first2=Marcel |last3=Fadhlaoui-Zid |first3=Karima |last4=Bekada |first4=Asmahan |last5=Zalloua |first5=Pierre |last6=Comas |first6=David |date=2019-11-18 |title=Heterogeneity in Palaeolithic Population Continuity and Neolithic Expansion in North Africa |journal=Current Biology |language=en |volume=29 |issue=22 |pages=3953–3959.e4 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.050 |pmid=31679935 |s2cid=204972040 |issn=0960-9822|doi-access=free |bibcode=2019CBio...29E3953S }}</ref>{{clearleft}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page