About Our Family

Where do we come from?

You have maternal ancestors from the Balanta people in Guinea-Bissau and the Mandinka people in Senegal. This
means a woman from your mom's side of the family was from these groups a long time ago, 500 to 2,000 years ago.

• We compared your DNA to more than 33,000 people's DNA from Africa to find your ancestry result. Your DNA is a 99.4% match with the Balanta people and Mandinka people.

• This part of your DNA comes from your mother's mother's side means to get multiple matches.Your results match each group and country equally. One group or country is not dominant.

• Click here to understand what it means to get multiple matches.

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Here are the parts of your DNA sequence that we used:

• HVR1 Variants:16188.1C, 16189C, 16223T, 16264T, 16274A, 16278T

• HVR2 Variants:73G, 93G, 146C, 150T, 152C, 182T, 195C, 198T, 263G, 315.1C, 325T

• HVR3 Variants:523d, 525d

• Haplogroup: L2c2

• Everyone in your family on your Land Family side has this ancestry. Share these results with your mom, siblings, children, and other family members like your grandmother, aunts, uncles and cousins.