Table 2.
Ancestry proportions for various South-Eastern Bantu-speaking (SEB) groups estimated using unsupervised ADMIXTURE analysis (at K = 3).
| SEB group | Sample size | Bantu-related ancestry (%) | Khoe-San-related ancestry (%) | Eurasian-related ancestry (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | ±SD | Mean | ±SD | Mean | ±SD | ||
| Pedi | 1065 | 88.28 | 5.11 | 10.61 | 4.71 | 1.12 | 2.83 |
| Sotho | 366 | 84.17 | 8.36 | 14.65 | 7.40 | 1.18 | 3.60 |
| Tswana | 242 | 78.19 | 7.44 | 20.49 | 6.02 | 1.32 | 4.59 |
| Swazi | 126 | 90.43 | 8.02 | 8.69 | 7.49 | 0.87 | 2.59 |
| Xhosa | 177 | 80.24 | 5.90 | 17.62 | 4.86 | 2.14 | 3.17 |
| Zulu | 626 | 84.64 | 6.32 | 13.58 | 4.72 | 1.78 | 4.16 |
| Tsonga | 1644 | 97.80 | 2.86 | 1.56 | 2.43 | 0.65 | 1.21 |
| Venda | 73 | 91.31 | 6.99 | 6.45 | 5.15 | 2.24 | 4.16 |