Table 2 Comparison of haplogroup distributions in medieval Swahili individuals with those from two studies of present-day Swahili people

From: Entwined African and Asian genetic roots of medieval peoples of the Swahili coast

Likely Y chromosome haplogroup origin

Present-day sampled in ref. 21 and published here

Present-day published previously32

Medieval

Africa

45%

95%

17%

Southwest Asian

36%

3%

83%

Other

20%

2%

0%

Likely mtDNA haplogroup origin

Africa

94%

97%

97%

South or East Asia

4%

2%

3%

Other

2%

1%

0%

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