Visualization of My Genetic Similarity to People Around the World

by Andrew Meyer on April 30, 2008

Here is a cool visualization of my genetic similarity to groups of people from around the globe. The longer the bar the greater my genetic similarity to people from that region.

global genetic similarity visualization

As you can see, I’m most similar to people from Northern Europe in the 23andMe visualization.

global genetic similarity visualization2

Here is how my genetic similarity to different global regions stacks up:

global genetic similarity visualization3

  • you're more asian than american! aha
  • it's going to make bubble-filling on the US Census 2010 much harder
  • Nice post there. Raised a few things I hadn't thought about before. Thx.
  • Thats a pretty cool application. One thing that is for sure is that you have very little similarity to Aussies!
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