New Populations:

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

New Australian populations:

• European-Aboriginal (New South Wales, Australia) (5,116)

New European populations:

• Northern Italy (139)
• Southern Italy (150)
• Upper Silesia, Poland (1,139)

New Latin American Populations:

• Costa Rica (496)

New Native American Populations:

• Bari (Sierra de Perija, Venezuela) (25)
• Yuco (Northern Colombia) (25)

New Near Eastern Populations:

• Duzce, Turkey (193)

Updated World Regions:

The inclusion of additional population data allows us to refine our world region algorithm. Our algorithm now distinguishes the following 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.
• Amazonian: The Amazonian Rainforest
• Andean: Western South America.
• Athabaskan: Athabaskan speaking peoples of western North America.
• Central American: Native Central Americans.
• Mexican: Native Mexicans.
• Northeast Amerindian: Native peoples of eastern North America.
• Salishan: Salish speaking peoples of the American Pacific Northwest.
• Mestizo ("mixed") (not shown): Native Americans mixed with Europeans and Africans.

African and Near Eastern:

• Arabian: The Arabian Peninsula.
• Asia Minor: The Levant 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.
• Southern African: Southern Africa.
• West African: Coastal West Africa.

Asia/Pacific:

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

Updates:

Previous DNA Tribes customers who would like to update their results to include these new populations and TribeScore system can order an Update through our secure online checkout.