Table 3 Determining the number of streams of ancestry in the Levant

From: Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation

Left pops

Right pops

Rank

Degrees of freedom

Chi squared

p Value

Levant_N

 

0

20

190.024

1.047e−29

Levant_ChL

09NW

1

9

32.641

1.541e−4

Levant_BA_South

 

2

0

0.000

1.000

Levant_N

 

0

20

399.438

2.673e−72

Levant_BA_South

09NW

1

9

6.574

0.681

Levant_BA_North

 

2

0

0.000

1.000

Levant_N

 

0

20

706.552

3.221e−135

Levant_BA_South

09NWZ

1

9

28.050

1.772e−3

Levant_BA_North

 

2

0

0.000

1.000

  1. Note: Models that have a rank that is plausible (i.e., p value of greater than 0.05) are shown in bold. Rank is equal to the minimum number of source populations required to model the “Left” population group relative to the “Right” population group, minus 1 (thus, Rank 2, which is the only working solution for all sets of three “Left” populations, reflects three admixing populations)
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