Ancestry Reference Panel

What is the reference panel used to analyze my ethnicity composition?

We have defined 84 world regions broken down in 498 genetic populations. The genetic populations have been retrieved from well-known and scientific biobanks:

  • 1000Genomes
  • HGDP
  • Scientific papers publicly available (Cell, Nature, PubMed papers)

Reference Populations

Africa
  • African Hunter-Gatherer
  • Angolan & Congolese
  • Central African
  • East African
  • Egyptian
  • Ethiopian
  • Ghanaian, Liberian, Sierra Leonean
  • Nigerian
  • North African
  • Senegambian & Guinean
  • Somalian
  • South African
  • South East African
  • Sudanese
  • Somali
America
  • Inuit
  • North American
  • Central American
  • South American
Asia
  • Anatolian
  • Arabian
  • Bedouin
  • Bengali Northeast Indian
  • Brunei
  • Central Asian
  • Central Caucasus
  • Chinese
  • Chinese Dai
  • Chinese Hmong
  • Chinese Lahu
  • Chinese Naxi
  • Chinese North
  • Chinese South
  • Chinese Tibet
  • Chinese Xibo
  • Cypriot
  • Filipino Austronesian
  • Gujarati Patidar
  • Indian
  • Indonesian Khmer Thai Myanma
  • Iranian Mesopotamian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Levantine
  • Malayali Subgroup
  • Manchurian Mongol
  • North Caucasus
  • Northern Indian
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Siberian
  • South Caucasus
  • South Indian
  • Southern Indian and Sri Lankan
  • Vietnamese
Europe
  • Ashkenazi Jewish
  • Balkan
  • Baltic
  • Basque
  • England
  • Central Italian
  • East Iberian
  • East Slavic
  • Finnish
  • Northwestern European
  • Greek
  • Ireland
  • North Iberian
  • North Italian
  • Orcadian
  • Sardinian
  • Scandinavian
  • Scotland
  • South Iberian
  • South Italian
  • Welsh
  • West Iberian
  • West Slavic
Oceania
  • Australian
  • Hawaiian
  • Melanesian
  • Oceanian
  • Papuan
What is the reference panel used to analyze my Shared Ancient Origins?

We have defined 37 world regions broken down in 200 genetic populations. The genetic populations have been retrieved from well-known and scientific biobanks:

  • 1000Genomes
  • HGDP
  • Scientific papers publicly available (Cell, Nature, PubMed papers)

Reference Populations

Africa
  • Central African
  • East African
  • Egyptian
  • Ethiopian
  • Nigerian
  • Senegambian
  • Southeast African
  • West African
Asia
  • Anatolian
  • Caucasian
  • Central Asian
  • Chinese (Han)
  • Cypriot
  • East Asian
  • Indian
  • Japanese
  • Levantine
  • Mesopotamian
  • Mongolian
  • North African
  • Pakistan
  • Peninsular Arab
  • Senegambian
  • Siberian
  • South Central Indian
  • Southeast Asian
  • Vietnamese
Europe
  • Balkan
  • British Isles (U.K. Á Rep. of Ireland)
  • Eastern European
  • Finnish
  • Iberian
  • Italian
  • Northwestern European
  • Sardinian
  • Scandinavian
America
  • Native American
Oceania
  • Pacific Islanders