Editing Kikuyu people (section)

==Genetics==
According to a [[Y-Chromosome]] [[DNA]] study by Wood ''et al.'' (2005), around 73% of Gĩkũyũs belong to the common paternal [[Haplogroup E1b1a (Y-DNA)|haplogroup E1b1a]].<ref name=df>{{cite journal|title=Y-chromosomal variation in Sub-Saharan Africa: insights into the history of Niger-Congo groups. Molecular biology and evolution | pmc=3561512 |pmid=21109585 |doi=10.1093/molbev/msq312 |volume=28 |issue=3 |date=March 2011 |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |pages=1255–69 | last1 = de Filippo | first1 = C | last2 = Barbieri | first2 = C | last3 = Whitten | first3 = M |display-authors=etal}}</ref> The remainder carry other [[clade]]s: 19% [[Haplogroup E1b1b (Y-DNA)|E1b1b]] with [[Haplogroup E-M215 (Y-DNA)|E-M293]] contributing 11%,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genlinginterface.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Hg-E-Update.pdf |title=Research |website=genlinginterface.com }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Trombetta |first1=Beniamino |last2=D'Atanasio |first2=Eugenia |last3=Massaia |first3=Andrea |last4=Ippoliti |first4=Marco |last5=Coppa |first5=Alfredo |last6=Candilio |first6=Francesca |last7=Coia |first7=Valentina |last8=Russo |first8=Gianluca |last9=Dugoujun |first9=Jean-Michel |last10=Moral |first10=Pedro |last11=Akar |first11=Nejat |last12=Sellitto |first12=Daniele |last13=Valesini |first13=Guido |last14=Novelletto |first14=Andrea |last15=Scozzari |first15=Rosaria |display-authors=2 |date=2015-06-24 |title=Phylogeographic Refinement and Large Scale Genotyping of Human Y Chromosome Haplogroup E Provide New Insights into the Dispersal of Early Pastoralists in the African Continent |journal=[[Genome Biology and Evolution]] |volume=7 |issue=7 |pages=1940–1950 |doi=10.1093/gbe/evv118 |pmc=4524485 |pmid=26108492}}</ref> 2% [[Haplogroup A (Y-DNA)|A]], and 2% [[Haplogroup B (Y-DNA)|B]].<ref name=df/><ref name=Wood>{{cite journal|title=Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome and mtDNA variation in Africa: evidence for sex-biased demographic processes |journal=European Journal of Human Genetics|year=2005 |doi=10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201408 |last1=Wood |first1=Elizabeth T. |last2=Stover |first2=Daryn A. |last3=Ehret |first3=Christopher |last4=Destro-Bisol |first4=Giovanni |last5=Spedini |first5=Gabriella |last6=McLeod |first6=Howard |last7=Louie |first7=Leslie |last8=Bamshad |first8=Mike |last9=Strassmann |first9=Beverly I. |last10=Soodyall |first10=Himla |last11=Hammer |first11=Michael F. |volume=13 |issue=7 |pages=867–876 |pmid=15856073 |s2cid=20279122 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

In terms of maternal lineages, Gĩkũyũs closely cluster with other [[Northeast Bantu]] speaking groups like the [[Kamba people|Kamba]]. Most belong to various Africa-centered [[mtDNA]] [[Macro-haplogroup L (mtDNA)|macro-haplogroup L]] lineages such as [[Haplogroup L0|L0f]], [[Haplogroup L3 (mtDNA)|L3x]], [[Haplogroup L4 (mtDNA)|L4g]] and [[Haplogroup L5 (mtDNA)|L5]] per Castrì ''et al.'' (2009).<ref name="Castri">{{Cite journal |last1=Castrì |first1=Loredana |last2=Tofanelli |first2=Sergio |last3=Garagnani |first3=Paolo |last4=Bini |first4=Carla |last5=Fosella |first5=Xenia |last6=Pelotti |first6=Susi |last7=Paoli |first7=Giorgio |last8=Pettener |first8=Davide |last9=Luiselli |first9=Donata |year=2009 |title=mtDNA variability in two Bantu-speaking populations (Shona and Hutu) from Eastern Africa: implications for peopling and migration patterns in sub-Saharan Africa |journal=[[American Journal of Physical Anthropology]] |volume=140 |issue=2 |pages=302–311 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.21070 |pmid=19425093}}</ref> Kikuyu were estimated by Tishkoff et al. to have 43% ancestry from the Niger-Kordofan cluster, 36% from Cushitic, 8% from Nilo-Saharan, 6% from Sandawe, and 1% or less from each of the other clusters<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hruschka |first1=Daniel J. |last2=Hadley |first2=Craig |last3=Brewis |first3=Alexandra A. |last4=Stojanowski |first4=Christopher M. |date=2015-03-27 |title=Genetic Population Structure Accounts for Contemporary Ecogeographic Patterns in Tropic and Subtropic-Dwelling Humans |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=e0122301 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0122301 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=4376747 |pmid=25816235 |bibcode=2015PLoSO..1022301H |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Castri" /> According to Salas ''et al.'' (2002), other Gĩkũyũs largely carry the [[Haplogroup L1 (mtDNA)|L1a]] clade, which is one of the [[Macro-haplogroup L (mtDNA)|African]] mtDNA Haplogroups.<ref name=df/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africamuseum.be/publication_docs/Pakendorf_Bostoen_Filippo%202011%20Bantu%20Expansion.pdf |title=Molecular Perspectives on the Bantu Expansion |website=africamuseum.be |access-date=2 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2260104/component/escidoc:2260135/shh423.pdf |title=Y chromosome variation |website=pubman.mpdl.mpg.de }}</ref>