We are pleased to announce the addition of several new populations to our database:

New European populations:

• Andalusia, Spain (53)
• Ibiza Island, Balearic Archipelago (101)

New Native American populations:

• Huastecos (Hidalgo, Mexico) (135)
• Minnesota Native Americans (2006) (203)
• Otomi (Ixmiquilpan Valley, Mexico) (84)
• Otomi (La Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico) (91)

New Near Eastern populations:

• Southern Tunisia (201)

New East Asian populations:

• Bidayuh (Sarawak, Malaysia) (195)
• Derung (Yunnan, China) (67)
• East Mongolian (Chinese Inner Mongolia) (105)
• Egyin Gol, Mongolia (125)
• Evenk (Harbin, Chinese Manchuria) (99)
• Evenk (Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia) (103)
• Iban (Sarawak, Malaysia) (195)
• Kirgiz (Xinjiang, Chinese Turkestan) (191)
• Korea (109)
• Korea (1206)
• Korea (437)
• Korea (500)
• Melanau (Sarawak, Malaysia) (128)
• Mongolian (104)
• Phillipinos (Taiwan) (273)
• Uyghur 2 (Xinjiang, Chinese Turkestan) (148)
• Uzbek (Xinjiang, Chinese Turkestan) (168)
• Xibe (Xinjiang, Chinese Turkestan) (163)
• Yakut (Sakha Republic, Northeast Siberia) (44)

New South Asian populations:

• Adi Minyong Tribal (Arunachal Pradesh, India) (33)
• Adi Pasi Tribal (Arunachal Pradesh, India) (121)
• Chenchu (Andhra Pradesh, India) (100)
• Karmali Tribal (Bengal, India) (102)
• Kora Tribal (Bengal, India) (118)
• Lambadi (Andhra Pradesh, India) (107)
• Lodha Tribal (Bengal, India) (198)
• Maheli Tribal (Bengal, India) (98)

The inclusion of additional population data allows us to refine our world region algorithm. We have now identified twenty four well defined genetic clusters present in our global population database:

European:

• Eastern European: The Slavic speaking region of Eastern Europe.
• Finno-Ugrian: The Uralic speaking region of Northeastern Europe.
• Mediterranean: The Romance speaking region of Southern Europe.
• Northwest European: The Celtic and Germanic speaking region of Northwestern Europe.

Native American:

• Arctic: Inuit peoples of Alaska.
• Athabaskan: Athabaskan speaking peoples of western North America.
• Northeast Amerindian: Native peoples of eastern North America.
• Salishan: Salish speaking peoples of the American Pacific Northwest.
• South Amerindian: Native South and Central Americans.
• Mestizo (not shown): Native Americans mixed with Europeans and Africans.

African and Near Eastern:

• Arabian: The Arabian Peninsula.
• Asia Minor: The East Mediterranean and Anatolia to the Iranian Plateau.
• India: The Indian Subcontinent.
• India Tribal (not shown): Tribal peoples of eastern India.
• North African: North Africa.
• North India: Northern India.
• Sub-Saharan African: Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

Asia/Pacific:

• Australian: Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
• Japanese: The Japanese Archipelago.
• Malay Archipelago: Island Southeast Asia.
  
• Mongolian: Altaic-speaking peoples of Central and North Asia.
• Polynesian: The Polynesian Islands.
• Sino-Tibetan: The Chinese and Tibetan region of East Asia.
• Southeast Asian: Mainland Southeast Asia.

Previous customers who would like to update their results to include these new clusters can order an Update through our secure online checkout.