ALFRED

The ALlele FREquency Database
A resource of gene frequency data on human populations
supported by the U. S. National Science Foundation.

ALFRED detailed record information

Population Information

Name	ALFRED UID	Primary Language	Language Family
Masai	PO000456P

Synonyms: Maasai ;
Geographic Location¹: 1N, 29E; 6S, 42E

Sites typed for this population: View List
Population Samples: See Sample Information
External Resources:
References: See references
Population Description: Being curated
References:

Sample Information:

Graph estimated heterozygosities for various sites

Sample Name: Masai

Sample UID: SA000854R

Sample Description:This sample consists of unrelated individuals belonging to the Masai tribe in East Africa. Groups of Masai live in Kenya and Tanzania. This particular sample of Masai was collected from the Ekenywa area, close to the Tanzanian-Kenyan border along the Arusha-Nairobi highway. Most of the nomadic pastoralists sampled lived in make-shift locations in the Ekenywa area from where they could move to Monduli, Manyara and the Ngorongoro Crater when occasion demanded. The manyatta (village consisting of warriors, their mothers, sisters and uninitiated girl lovers) visited were Engurutoto, Olkokola and Lamanyatta. Sampling then moved on further west to Losikito. This sample was collected by S. Kajuna and S. Kungulilo.

Number of Chromosomes: 44

Relation to Other Samples:

References:
- Kenneth K. Kidd et al. "Data unpublished".

¹Geographic Coordinates represent two opposite corners of a rectangle encompassing the area where the population lives.This data is preliminary and changing.

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