BASED ON GENES
Sources & credits
Genome reference sources and artwork credits for the currently published website.
Ancient genome reference
The ancient-genome basis for the Hunter–Farmer, hunter-group, culture and individual comparisons is the pinned v66/v66.p1 1240K release family of the Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR), Dataverse DOI 10.7910/DVN/FFIDCW.
Modern comparison references
The following sources are included in the currently published public comparison dataset. Based on Genes publishes newly calculated aggregate reference values, not the source genotypes.
- AADR v66.p1 Human Origins modern European subset
- George Busby: Genotype data for a set of 163 worldwide populations (v4) · CC BY 4.0
- GenomeDenmark Phase II population aggregate
- Genome of the Netherlands release 5 parent aggregate
- SweGen T2T-CHM13 cohort aggregate
- Marc Vaudel (2026): MoBa mothers, population allele-frequency summary (up to 56,225) · CC BY 4.0
- Hákon Jónsson et al. (2017): deCODE/EVA allele frequencies of 15,220 Icelanders
Artwork
All illustrations shown on this website are used on the basis of rights or permissions held by the operator. Archaeological reconstructions credited to @ancienteuropeans2 are used and adapted with the creator's permission; attribution is provided here and in the corresponding explanatory text.
Further scientific citations, including pigmentation studies, appear directly with the relevant method explanations.