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From Nigerian to Cajun, County Cork to Tulu Nadu, 23andMe can now connect you to 4000+ geographic regions, ethnolinguistic groups, and cultural groups around the world. The most comprehensive ancestry breakdown on the market has been getting better and better.

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23andMe’s Ancestry Composition gives you the power to peer deeper into your genetic origins, connect them to different populations around the world, and to learn more about yourself.

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Ancestry Proportions

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The backbone of Ancestry Composition is a breakdown of the percentage of your DNA linked to each of 47 populations. We calculate this by comparing your genome to more than 14,000 people with known ancestry. When a segment of your DNA closely matches the DNA from one of the 47 populations, we assign that ancestry to the corresponding segment of your DNA. By separately calculating the ancestry for each segment of your genome, we can compute your overall ancestry composition. This helps connect you to your ancestry back 500 years, before the advent of modern migration.

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We’re always looking into new ways to make this breakdown more specific. Although your DNA doesn’t change, our interpretation of it does, which is why Ancestry Composition is a living analysis.

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Learn more in our Ancestry Composition Guide

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Country Matches

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We can also add another layer of insights with clues to the locations of much more recent ancestors. By looking for exact DNA matches between you and individuals with known ancestry from specific countries or regions, we can provide a “Country Match”. Despite the name, these matches can also connect you to smaller administrative sub-regions within countries.

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Genetic Groups

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Finally, we can connect you through shared genetic ancestry to Genetic Groups. These are groups of people with significant genetic similarity to each other. These groups may share ethnic identities, languages, or other similar characteristics. Genetic Groups include ethnolinguistic groups like the Esan, or cultural groups like Parsis in Western India. Genetic Groups also include regional groups, such as Albemarle Sound African Americans or Halifax Region Early British/Irish Canadians, and historical groups like Mayflower Descendants.

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23andMe+ Premium members also receive access to Distant Genetic Groups. “Distant” matches to Genetic Groups reflect meaningful DNA connections to Genetic Groups that may be further back in time, connections through fewer ancestors, or are otherwise harder to detect.

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All paths lead to you

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In a world where migration and cultural exchanges shape our history, 23andMe’s Ancestry Composition is an unprecedented tool for connecting us with our past. By offering insights into more than 4,000 geographic regions, ethnolinguistic groups, and cultural identities, you can open a window into the complex tapestry of your genetic heritage.

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As we continue to refine this analysis, the journey into your ancestry can become richer and more detailed, providing an ever-evolving understanding of where you come from, and how your roots connect to the world.

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In the latest update to 23andMe’s Ancestry Composition report, we’ve added finer detail for customers with South Asian ancestry, allowing them to trace their family connections back to 44 genetic groups corresponding to regions within India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan.

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The update affects the majority of customers with South Asian ancestry, and over one percent of all customers who tested on our latest genotyping chip.

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South Asia is the most populous region in the world and also very diverse, home to several hundred languages and various different religious and cultural practices. Now, in addition to six Ancestry Composition populations in South Asia, customers can see if they are connected via shared ancestors to some of the diverse groups in the region.

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Ancestry Composition Update

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23andMe’s Ancestry Composition report is a living analysis that improves as we add new reference data. Underlying our Ancestry reports are powerful algorithms and analytical tools developed by 23andMe population geneticists and engineers to offer our customers more insights into their ancestral origins.

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Recently, we’ve updated results for people with connections to Greece and the Balkans, early colonial Americans, African Americans, Japan, and Scandinavia for instance.

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Find out more

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If you are a 23andMe customer with the latest genotyping chip, V5, you see your Ancestry Composition in your report.

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Curious if you’re connected? Discover 23andMe’s Ancestry Service and more.

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Below are the lists of Genetic Groups 23andMe has added as part of this update

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Bengal Basin
Central Deccan Plateau
Central Himalayan Foothills
Chettinad
Coromandel Coast
Doaba
Ganges-Yamuna Doab
Goa and Kanara
Jhelum and Chenab River Basins
Karnataka Plateau and Andhra Plains
Kashmir
Kathiawar Peninsula
Kerala Plains
Khyber Pass
Konkan Coast
Krishna and Godavari Deltas
Kutch Peninsula
Lower Indus River Valley
Lower Narmada River Basin
Lower Tapti River Basin
Majha
Malabar Coast
Malwa Plains
North Gujarat Plains
North Sahyadri
Northeast Sri Lankan Coast
Northern Deccan Plateau and Middle Ganga Plain
Northern Kerala Backwaters
Northern Tamilnad Plains
Parsis in Western India
Punjab Plains
Rachna Doab
Sindh Sagar Doab
South Gujarat Plains
Southern Tamilnad Plains
Southwestern Coastal Plains
Southwestern Sri Lanka
Surma-Meghna River Basin
Tamilnad Uplands
Telengana Plateau
Tulu Nadu
Upper Kaveri River Basin
Upper Krishna and Tungabhadra Rivers
Western Himalayan Foothills

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When it comes to calculating 23andMe customers’ Ancestry Composition results, details are invariably what matter most: more specificity, more interactivity, more $\"\"$ opportunities to draw meaning about how we are all genetically connected to people around the globe.

In service to this idea, 23andMe has added a trove of content-rich new pages called Ancestry Detail Reports, which offer a more granular view of your ancestry, snapshots of the places and people to which your DNA connects you, and more. This update comes in tandem with an array of improvements and new features to the Ancestry experience, including a new interactive map of your DNA Relatives and enhanced look and feel on mobile and desktop.

We are now offering more than 30 new population-specific pages called Ancestry Detail Reports, as well as evaluating each customer’s ancestry based on more than 1,000 specific regions.

Ancestry Detail Reports provide a closer look at each of the global populations currently included in our Ancestry Composition feature, enabling customers to explore their own genetic heritage while also learning about other populations included in Ancestry Composition. The creation of this additional layer of detail comes in direct response to requests from our customers for more granularity and additional content in Ancestry Composition.

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Improvements to 23andMe’s Ancestry Experience

30+ new Ancestry Detail Reports with regional maps for our most refined view of your ancestry.

1000+ regions now included in Ancestry Composition.

Interactive map of where your DNA Relatives call home.

Ancestry Overview on desktop and mobile functions like a homepage for all your Ancestry reports, enabling exploration and discovery.

\nMore African and East Asian populations now available for all customers (first released in September 2018).

If you are a 23andMe customer, you can find your specific Ancestry Detail Reports (and explore all possible Ancestry Detail Reports) in a few ways.

The easiest path is navigating to your Ancestry Overview and clicking on each featured population under your Ancestry Composition summary.
You can also find these pages by clicking on the All Reports tab in your Ancestry Overview and looking under Ancestry Composition. There, you can easily view all of the more than 30 new reports and learn more about the diverse populations included in Ancestry Composition.

On the 23andMe Mobile Apps, you should see a list of featured populations under your Ancestry Composition results in the Ancestry tab.

A Deeper Dive

Let’s take a deeper dive into the Ancestry Detail Reports, and learn more about what you’ll discover when you view them.

If you’ve been assigned one or more “Recent Ancestor Locations” — these are indicated by the country and territory names you may see listed in your Ancestry Composition summary — you will also likely receive a more detailed map of your results on the associated Ancestry Detail Report. These maps may include the specific states or even counties where we have found evidence of your family’s recent ancestry. The stronger the evidence of a given ancestry, the higher ranking on the adjacent list and darker the shading is for that region. This new “live” map with specific regional breakdowns will continuously update over time to reflect the growing number of individuals from around the world in 23andMe’s database.

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A number of the Ancestry Detail Reports contain immersive educational materials that provide further context around each population’s genetics, demographics, history, and more. Curated and written by 23andMe’s scientists, these materials aim to help customers learn important information about their genetic ancestry. These reports can also be used to learn about diverse populations with which you are not genetically connected, but may be curious about.

$\"\"$ Snapshots

Another layer to the Ancestry Detail Reports are Snapshots — a handful of researched and reported stories that provide glimpses into the many nuances that make each ancestral population unique. Snapshot topics include: Talk the Talk (words and phrases unique to one of the languages spoken by each population), Ancestry Eats (traditional foods and beverages), Sights to See (off-the-beaten-path travel tips and important landmarks), Natural Wonders, Celebrations, Crafts & Traditions, and more. We encourage customers to contribute ideas for future Snapshots by clicking on the Customer Feedback bar located at the bottom of each Ancestry Detail Report.

$\"\"$ Lastly, at the bottom of each Ancestry Detail Report, customers who have chosen to participate in the DNA Relatives tool can view their relatives who share ancestry from that particular population. For example, a customer with 20 percent Italian ancestry or 55 percent Vietnamese ancestry would see the profile names and profile images of some of their relatives connected to those populations. The content on each Ancestry Detail Report may provide inspiration for starting a conversation with those relatives about your genetic heritage.

This new paradigm for exploring Ancestry results on a deeper, more actionable level will set the standard for future updates to the Ancestry Composition experience. Since Ancestry Composition is truly a “living analysis” of your DNA that reflects our growing database, 23andMe will continue to update the Ancestry Detail Reports at a county and state-level to provide an ever-closer view of your ancestry. Though country and territory maps may not yet be available for every customer, our intent is that this will change as our database continues to expand and diversify.

23andMe customers can go to their Ancestry Overview to start exploring. Not yet a customer? Find out more about 23andMe’s Ancestry service here.

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