YORUBA ARE 99.9% GENETICALLY IDENTICAL TO IGBOS, AKAN AND GAA-ADANGBE – STUDY
HISTORY, SCIENCEBY ENDSNOVEMBER 20, 2015

Whereas greater differences exist within the ethnic groups than between them, study reveals

Genetic research finds that there is little genetic difference between most African ethnic groups and less so when they are closer together. A study published in the Bio Medical Center found there was little evidence for significant population substructure in the four major West African ethnic groups, the Yoruba and Igbo of Nigeria and Akan and Gaa-Adangbe of Ghana.

The findings, according to the team, "although not entirely surprising given the geographical proximity of these groups, provide important insights into the genetic relationships between the ethnic groups studied and confirm previous results that showed close genetic relationship between most studied West African groups."

The study was conducted by Adebowale Adeyemo, Guanjie Chen2, Yuanxiu Chen and Charles Rotimi of the University of Ibadan, National Human Genome Center and Howard university. Analysis of Molecular Variance, AMOVA was used.

Adebowale et al made the shocking discovery that whereas there was 99.9% within-population variance, the between-population variance was less than 0.1%. This means that Yorubas, Igbos, Gaa and Akan are 99.9% similar as populations, while within each of the groups there are differences/variations between individuals as high as 99%, i.e. One Igbo may be 99% variant to another Igbo, or one Yoruba to another Yoruba.

"The within-population component of genetic variation accounts for most of the diversity in the sample."

Previous studies had similarly found such differences that existed within ethnic populations, rather than between them. "This is consistent with previous findings [5] showing that the within-population component of genetic variance among six African populations studied was 96.9%; we estimated an even higher value of 99.9% in this study."

A similar finding is with races where it has now been found that within whites or within blacks there are more variances than between the races which are next to identical with differences only being skin deep.

"The higher value of the within-population variance in this study is likely due to the smaller geographic area from which the samples were derived. The maximum distance between any two sites in this study is less than 700 miles and there are no major natural barriers e.g., mountains, between the regions inhabited by the groups."

The researchers explained that a long history of trade, marriage and other interactions as these groups were not tribal, lead to the thorough mixing of genetic pool.

"In addition, these four ethnic groups have a long history of trade and other interactions and they all speak languages belonging to the Niger-Kordofanian group. As noted by Cavalli-Sforza et al [18] the genetic relationships observed in West Africa indicate that major migrations and admixtures occurred within the region in earlier times It is important to point out that despite the small amount of genetic differentiation in the sample as a whole, it was possible to distinguish between the groups from each country using a hierarchical AMOVA model and a dendrogram algorithm.

Though finding that "Pair-wise genetic distances between the four ethnic groups were also very similar," the 2005 study found that the individual populations could be distinguished, most especially those from Ghana from those from Nigeria.

"Thus, the absence of significant population structure between the four groups did not mean that the groups could not be distinguished from each other. Rather, the data in Table 4 shows that enough differences exist to separate the two populations from Nigeria from those from Ghana."

"Classification of individuals into clusters showed symmetry, with roughly the same proportion of each ethnic group assigned to each cluster(s). Ethnicity apparently did not introduce differential allele frequencies that may affect analysis and interpretation of linkage and association studies."

There is a lot of Cameroonian ancestry in Igbos, while both Igbo and Yoruba often have Benin ancestry with more in Yorubas.

Same 'Volta-Niger,’ and 'YEAI' Language Roots Of Yoruba And Igbo

The image below shows also that Yoruba and Igbo ethnic groups have the same language root, the YEAI root.

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thinkafricanet:


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OLAADEGBU:
Nigeria, Fulani-Yoruba

There is a lot of Cameroonian ancestry in Igbos, while both Igbo and Yoruba often have Benin ancestry with more in Yorubas.

Read more: http://newsrescue.com/yoruba-are-99-adangbe-study/#ixzz4zqKxIN00

morpheus24:


It is not unusual for the Igbo to be closely linked to Ethnic groups to their West more so than their EAST, seeing that migratory Patterns probably moved somewhere from North Central Africa into the West and then down South via the Bantu expansions. IGbo and groups to their West even look more phenotypically similar to groups in Cameroon and the Congo.


Yoruba have probably been in the West longer than Igbo judging from their closer genetic, cultural and linguistic ties to their Eastern neighbours that speak Gbe languages so the genetics does correlate with linguistic and cultural similarities