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Which ethnicities does MyHeritage compare my DNA with?

Updated over 4 months ago

Your Ethnicity Estimate on MyHeritage is a breakdown of ethnic regions found in the DNA you’ve inherited from ancestors on both sides of your family. MyHeritage analyzes your ancestral roots in great depth to provide a diverse, percentage-based ethnicity breakdown from 79 ethnicities around the world. Here is a list of our population models for the latest version of our Ethnicity Estimate:
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Africa

Algerian

Algerian Jewish

Central African

East African

Ethiopian and Eritrean

Libyan Jewish

Morocan

Moroccan Jewish

Nigerian

Somali

Sudanese

Tunisian

Tunisian Jewish

West African


America

Indigenous in South Central America

Indigenous in North Central America

Indigenous in Mexico

Indigenous in Ecuador

Indigenous in Peru and Bolivia

Indigenous in Chile

Indigenous in Southwest US

Inuit


Asia

Armenian

Bengali

Bene Israel Jewish

Bukharan Jewish

Caucasus Jewish

Central Asian

Chinese

Circassian

Cochin Jewish

Filipino

Georgian

Indonesian and Malay

Japanese

Mainland South East Asian

Pakistani and Punjabi

Pashtun

Persian and Kurdish

Persian Jewish and Kurdish Jewish

South Asian

Turkish


Europe

Ashkenazi Jewish (Germany, France, Netherlands)

Ashkenazi Jewish (Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechia)

Ashkenazi Jewish (USSR)

Balkan

Baltic

Breton

Danish

Dutch

East European

English

Finnish

French

Germanic

Greek and Albanian

Irish

Maltese

North Italian

Norwegian

Portuguese

Sardinian

Scottish and Welsh

South Italian

Spanish, Catalan and Basque

Swedish


Middle East

Egyptian

Iraqi

Iraqi Jewish

Lebanese

Middle Eastern

Peninsular Arab

Syrian

Syrian Jewish

Yemenite Jewish​​​​​​​


Oceania

Eastern Polynesian

Maori

Melanesian

Western Polynesian

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