Ethnicity percentages continue to evolve as the companies gather more data and become better at recognizing genetic connections to places and peoples.
Both AncestryDNA and MyHeritage DNA provide high-level estimates of ancestral ethnicity, each based on their own algorithms and definitions. AncestryDNA divides the world into 77 overlapping regions and groups; MyHeritage’s ethnicity is based on 42 ethnic groups. Ethnicity percentages continue to evolve as the companies gather more data and become better at recognizing genetic connections to places and peoples.