Native American tribes

[Carolina]

What Native American tribes have been tested and are part of MyOrigins v.2?

[KATM]

What Native American tribes have been tested and are part of MyOrigins v.2?

I don't thing Family Tree DNA has released a list of reference populations for myOrigins v. 2 yet. This is a list of the Native American reference populations used in the original Population Finder (the ethnicity tool FTDNA had before myOrigins 1.0):

America

• Central American
  • Maya
  • Pima
• South American
  • Colombian
  • Karitiana
  • Surui

I could be wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that most, if not all of these were again being used for myOrigins 2.0. I don't think they were used in myOrigins 1.0, but someone will correct me on that, I hope. I'm afraid I don't know where I saw that information, though. There may be additional tribes used in myOrigins 2.0, too.

I also had a list of Native American reference populations used by 23andMe, from last August, 2016 (note: no Native American reference populations from further north in North America, beyond Mexico, are shown):

• Karitania (indigenous group in Brazil, "live in the western Amazon region relatively untouched by the outside world"; "currently number between 200 and 300 people" "23andMe's reference database includes 24 representatives of the Karitania population of Brazil")
• Maya (descendants of the Mayan empire, they "live in a territory spanning the Central American countries of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and southern Mexico." Today they "number more than 2 million." "23andMe's reference database includes 25 representatives of a Mayan population of southern Mexico.")
• Pima (Pima Bajo, or O'ob, "live in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Sonora and Chihuahua in northern Mexico;" "related by language to the Pima tribe" in Arizona, U.S. 1,000 members "live in small villages." "23andMe's reference database includes 25 representatives living in the Sierra Madre Mountains")
• Puinave and Curripaco ("indigenous groups who live near the Inirida River in eastern Columbia." "The two groups have a history of moving ever deeper into the rainforest to avoid contact with Europeans." "23andMe's reference database includes 11 individuals from these two populations")
• Surui ("a small population of about 300 individuals living on reservations in the forested regions of Rondonia, in northwestern Brazil." "23andMe's reference database includes 21 representatives of the Surui population")

[KATM]

I also had a chart, perhaps a visual from some webinar in 2013, which showed the overlap of Reference Populations for 23andMe, Family Tree DNA, and Ancestry.com (links are to Wikipedia pages showing populations):

• 1000 Genomes project (23andMe; includes Colombian, Karitiana, Maya, Pima, Surui)
• 23andMe Customer Database (23andMe)
• Human Genome Diversity Project (23andMe, FTDNA, Ancestry.com; includes Columbian, Karitiana, Maya, Pima, Surui)
• International HapMap Project (23andMe, FTDNA)
• Estonian Biocentre (FTDNA)
• GeneByGene DNA (FTDNA)
• Customer Database (FTDNA)
• Proprietary AncestryDNA Reference Collection, includes SMGF (Ancestry.com)

[Carolina]

Thank you so much. I was wondering about the Northern American Natives, I should've been more specific.

[KATM]

I suspected you might mean Northern American tribes, but by describing what I knew, you could see that as far as what information has been available, it does not seem that more North American Native American reference populations have been included as yet. I know that many tribes don't trust DNA testing, so it's not a surprise.

Maybe someone else who knows more will post differently, or FTDNA will eventually show what reference populations were used for myOrigins 2.0. We can dream, anyway!