Your Regional Ancestry: Reference Populations
Your Regional Ancestry: Reference Populations
Modern day indigenous populations around the world carry particular blends of nine regional affiliations. We compared your DNA results to the averages from each of 43 reference populations we currently have in our database and estimated which of these populations were most similar to you in terms of the genetic markers you carry.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN or Black American
This reference population is based on samples collected from African-Americans living in the southwestern United States. The mixture of regions reflected here is due to forced slavery from Africa to the Americas during the slave-trading era (73% sub-Saharan African, 4% Southern African). There is also a European contribution to the population (comprising the 10% Northern European, 6% Mediterranean, and 4% Southwest Asian components—a total of 20%) as well as a 2% Native American component due to mixing that occurred with Native American tribes after the Africans arrived in the Americas.
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Modern day indigenous populations around the world carry particular blends of nine regional affiliations. We compared your DNA results to the averages from each of 43 reference populations we currently have in our database and estimated which of these populations were most similar to you in terms of the genetic markers you carry.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN or Black American
This reference population is based on samples collected from African-Americans living in the southwestern United States. The mixture of regions reflected here is due to forced slavery from Africa to the Americas during the slave-trading era (73% sub-Saharan African, 4% Southern African). There is also a European contribution to the population (comprising the 10% Northern European, 6% Mediterranean, and 4% Southwest Asian components—a total of 20%) as well as a 2% Native American component due to mixing that occurred with Native American tribes after the Africans arrived in the Americas.
READ MORE: https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com...
