About the DNA Tribes® Global Population Database

DNA Tribes® analysis identifies the peoples and places where your geographical genetic ancestry is most strongly represented.  
DNA Tribes is the only personal genetic analysis that compares your genetic profile to a population database that includes over
356,000 individuals from 1,044 populations around the world, including 773 indigenous populations:























A Detailed World Map of Genetic Territories

Your DNA Tribes® report also includes a unique high resolution World Region Match analysis that measures your genetic
connections to major genetic regions identified exclusively by DNA Tribes® original research:
Please click each continent for a
complete list of populations currently
in our global database:


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European and Near Eastern Regions:
  • Aegean: The eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia region,
    including modern territories of Southern Italy and Sicily,
    Greece, and Turkey.
  • Arabian: The Arabian Peninsula.
  • Eastern European: The Slavic speaking region of
    Eastern Europe.
  • Finnic: Uralic speaking peoples of Northeastern Europe.
  • Levantine: Populations along the coast of the eastern
    Mediterranean Sea.
  • Mediterranean: The Romance speaking region of
    Southwestern Europe.
  • Mesopotamian: The historical “Cradle of Western
    Civilization” including modern Iran, Iraq and nearby
    territories.
  • North African: Populations of the Atlas Mountains and
    Sahara Desert.
  • Northwest European: The Celtic and Germanic speaking
    region of Northwestern Europe.

Native North American Regions:
  • Arctic: Inuit (Eskimo) peoples of Alaska and related
    peoples of far eastern Siberia.
  • Athabaskan: Athabaskan speaking Dine peoples of
    western North America.
  • Mexican: Native peoples of Mexico, including the
    historical territories of the Aztec Empire.
  • North Amerindian: Native peoples of the Great Plains
    region of North America.
  • Ojibwa (East Algonquian): Eastern Algonquian speaking
    peoples of northeastern North America.
  • Salishan: Salish of the Pacific Northwest.

Native Central and South American Regions:
  • Amazonian: Peoples of the Amazon River Basin.
  • Andean: Peoples of the Andean Mountains of western
    South America, including the territories of the historical
    Inca Empire.
  • Central American: Peoples of the Central American
    Isthmus and northern South America.
  • Gran Chaco: Peoples of the Gran Chaco (“Great Hunting
    Land”) of South America.
  • Mayan: The historically Mayan region of Mesoamerica.
  • Patagonian: The plains region of southern South
    America.

  • Mestizo (“mixed”) (not shown): Native Americans who
    have blended with Europeans and (to a lesser degree)
    Africans in recent history.  This blending is most typical of
    Latin American Mestizo populations, but can also be
    found in English and French speaking populations of
    North America (Metis).
Sub-Saharan African Regions:
  • African Great Lakes: The Great Lakes region surrounding
    the Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa.
  • Horn of Africa: The eastern African lands along the Red
    Sea and Gulf of Aden that face the Arabian Peninsula.
  • Sahelian: The horizontal strip of grasslands between the
    dry Sahara Desert to the north and moist forests to the
    south, home to the historically influential Sahelian states.
  • Southern African: This southeastern region of Africa is
    home to Khoisan speakers as well as Bantu speaking
    cultures thought to have expanded from West Africa.  
  • Tropical West African: The humid forested zone of West
    Africa facing the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean.

Central and South Asian Regions:
  • Altaian: Altaic-speaking peoples of Central Asia, including
    the homelands of the historically nomadic Turkic and
    Mongolic peoples who have invaded Europe, the Near
    East, India, China, and other neighboring lands.
  • Eastern India: The eastern Indian Subcontinent.
  • North India: Northern India, Pakistan and neighboring
    territories, including the homeland of the ancient Vedic
    civilization.
  • South India: The southern Indian Subcontinent, including
    the Dravidian speaking peoples of Tamil Nadu and many
    other cultures.

East Asian Regions:
  • Chinese: This region is most characteristic of the
    predominant Han ethnic group of present day China.
  • Japanese: The Japanese Archipelago.
  • Malay Archipelago: Island Southeast Asia.
  • Manchurian: This region to the north of the longstanding
    Chinese civilization is home  to Korean, Mongolic, and
    Tungusic peoples.
  • Southeast Asian: Mainland Southeast Asia.
  • Tibetan: The region including the Himalayan Mountains
    and the Tibetan Plateau and extends to the western
    provinces of modern China.

Pacific Regions:
  • Australian: Aboriginal peoples of Australia and Papua New
    Guinea.   
  • Polynesian: Literally meaning “many islands,” the
    Polynesian region includes related peoples living between
    Samoa and New Zealand in the west to Hawaii in the east.  
A New Genetic Map of
Interconnected World Regions:

More information about the affiliations of
populations around the world revealed by
DNA Tribes® analysis is available here in
our detailed global survey.
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