Which populations are included in the ancestry analysis?
The tellmeGen database includes thousands of reference individuals belonging to 93 genetic populations spread across 7 major geographic regions as follows:
- 36 in Europe, distributed between the Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Northern Europe, the British Isles and Ireland, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Sardinia, and Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity.
- 9 in Africa, distributed between East Africa, West Africa (Gambia and Senegal region), West Africa (Sierra Leone and Liberia region), West Africa (Nigeria and Ghana region), the Maghreb, and Sub-Saharan African peoples.
- 14 in Western Asia, distributed between Bedouins, Egyptians, Levantines, and Arabs; Turks, Caucasians, and Iranians; and Druze.
- 9 in South and Central Asia, distributed between Central Asia and Siberia; Pakistan and Afghanistan; South India and Sri Lanka; the Bengal region, Bangladesh, and Northeast India; the Punjab region and Northern India; and Gujarati ethnicity.
- 17 in East Asia, distributed between Japanese, Koreans, Indigenous Siberian peoples, Mongols, and Northern Chinese; Dai Chinese ethnicity and Indochinese; and other ethnicities of China.
- 3 in Oceania, distributed between the Melanesian region and Papua New Guinea region.
- 5 in America, distributed between Native Americans from North America, Native Americans from Central and South America, and Amazonian natives.