What is the non-regional outside admixture layer?

Even for people fully from the Austronesian world, the model includes South Asian, European and Amerindian proxies. This gives any real non-regional ancestry an escape valve instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

🌺 New report · Austronesian & Pacific

Lapita

Your Austronesian & Pacific Roots

From the Taiwan Neolithic homeland to the great Lapita voyages that settled the Pacific 3000 years ago, all the way to Madagascar. We model your DNA against the ancient regional core and non-regional outside admixture, then show which of 7 communities you most resemble, with an AI narrative.

🏺 Ancient regional core (Taiwan homeland, Lapita culture, Guam Unai/Latte)
🌍 Non-regional outside admixture layer (South Asian, European, Amerindian)
🌺 7 Austronesian communities compared directly
🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA haplogroup classification
📊 Deep / expansion / settlement / classical / medieval breakdowns
🤖 Results interpreted by Claude AI

⚠️ Designed for people of predominantly Austronesian / Indo-Pacific ancestry. Works for any of the 7 communities: Filipino, Indonesian (Javanese), Malay, Taiwanese Aborigine, Malagasy, Polynesian (Samoan), Micronesian (Chamorro). If you are mostly of other ancestry, the regional models are calibrated for fully-regional profiles and the fit will be poor; our Advanced Ancestry Report is a better choice.

1. Choose your community

Pick the community your family belongs to. Not sure? Choose "Let the model decide" and we compare you to every community automatically.

Filipino

The Philippine archipelago, Luzon/Visayas/Mindanao

Indonesian (Javanese)

Java, the demographic core of Indonesia

Malay

Peninsular Malaysia and the wider Malay world

Taiwanese Aborigine (Ami)

Taiwan's indigenous Austronesian-speaking peoples, homeland of the whole family

Malagasy

Madagascar, the westernmost reach of the Austronesian expansion

Polynesian (Samoan)

Samoa and the wider Polynesian triangle

Micronesian (Chamorro)

Guam and the Mariana Islands

🔎 Let the model decide (auto)

We detect which community you are genetically closest to.

What your report models

🏺 Ancient regional core

The deep root shared by Austronesian populations: the Taiwan Neolithic homeland, the Lapita culture that carried the expansion across the Pacific roughly 3000 years ago, and the Guam Unai settlement period.

🏛️ Classical & the Madagascar voyage

The later layers: the Guam Latte (Chamorro) period, post-Lapita Vanuatu, and the remarkable Medieval trans-oceanic voyage that reached Madagascar, the westernmost point of the whole expansion.

🌍 Non-regional outside admixture

Even for people fully from the region, we include South Asian, European and Amerindian proxies, so any real outside ancestry is detected honestly instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

🌺 Community profile

Which of the 7 Austronesian communities your DNA most closely resembles, modelled directly against each community's modern reference population.

🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA lineages

If your raw DNA file is available, we classify your paternal and maternal haplogroups in an Austronesian context (e.g. O1a Austronesian expansion, B4a1a1 the "Polynesian motif").

44 reference populations

Your DNA is modelled against ancient Austronesian proxies, modern community reference populations, and non-regional outside proxies.

Amerindian proxy

Amerindian (North) proxy · Amerindian (South) proxy

Ancient Austronesia

Deep European proxy (generic West Eurasian) · Deep South Asian proxy (generic Indian subcontinent)

Deep ancestral sources

Hoabinhian (Southeast Asian Hunter-Gatherer) · Papuan (New Guinea Highlands) · Post-Lapita Papuan-admixed ancestor (Malakula, Vanuatu, ~88BC) · Southern Chinese coastal deep source (Fujian, Qihe) · Taiwan Pre-Neolithic (Liangdao, ~8000BP) · Wallacean Hunter-Gatherer (Sulawesi, Leang Panninge) · Yoruba (West African proxy)

Modern Austronesian communities

Filipino · Indonesian (Javanese) · Malagasy · Malay · Micronesian (Chamorro) · Polynesian (Samoan) · Taiwanese Aborigine (Ami)

Your Austronesian expansion ancestry

Lapita culture (Vanuatu, ~2900BP) · Lapita individual (Teouma, Efate, Vanuatu, ~870BC) · Mainland SEA Late Neolithic (Vietnam) · Malay Peninsula Late Neolithic (Gua Cha, Malaysia) · Papuan lineage continuity (Bronze Age, New Guinea) · Sumatra Late Neolithic-Bronze (Loyang Ujung, Indonesia) · Taiwan Neolithic (Hanben, Austronesian homeland)

Your Classical ancestry

Ancient West Polynesian ancestor (Tonga, ~2500BP) · Flores Late Iron Age (Liang Toge, Indonesia) · Guam Latte period (Chamorro) · Papuan lineage continuity (Classical, New Guinea) · Vanuatu Classical (~1100BP)

Your Island settlement ancestry

Dong Son culture (Vietnam, Iron Age) · Guam Unai period (early Micronesian settlement) · Northern Moluccas Neolithic (Uattamdi, Indonesia) · Papuan lineage continuity (Iron Age, New Guinea) · Taiwan Iron Age (Hanben) · Vanuatu (Post-Lapita, ~1300BP)

Your Medieval ancestry

Austronesian voyager stock (generic, Taiwan-related) · Majapahit era (Komodo, Indonesia, High Medieval) · Majapahit era (Pantar, Indonesia, Late Medieval) · Malagasy (Madagascar, trans-oceanic voyage) · Malay Historical (Malaysia) · Nan Madol, Pohnpei (Saudeleur period, Micronesia) · Pre-modern Polynesian lineage (French Polynesia, ~150BP) · Solomon Islands (~500BP, Papuan-admixed)

Being honest about the method

🔬 How to read your results (please read)

Your result is computed by genetic similarity (Global25): we place your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space and find the mixture that best reproduces your profile. Every reference population in our panel uses real, official G25 coordinates (published academic ancient-DNA studies and the official Global25 dataset), none of our reference data is simulated or synthetic.

This is not a national or political determination of identity, and it is not a proof of belonging to any specific community. Fine distinctions between neighbouring communities can overlap in G25 and are best-fit estimates.

Why group these 7 communities in one report? They all descend from the same Taiwan Neolithic homeland and the Lapita-culture voyages that spread across the Pacific and as far as Madagascar, the historical threads connecting Filipinos, Indonesians, Malays, Taiwanese Aborigines, Malagasy, Polynesians and Micronesians.

⚠️ Designed for predominantly Austronesian / Indo-Pacific ancestry. If you are mostly of other ancestry, the models are calibrated for fully-regional profiles and the fit will be poor.

Get your Lapita report

Select your community above, then confirm your email. We send you a secure link to upload your DNA (raw file or G25 coordinates) and generate your personalised report.

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📖 What is raw DNA & G25?

Frequently asked questions

Who is the Lapita report for?

It is built for people of predominantly Austronesian / Indo-Pacific ancestry across any of 7 communities: Filipino, Indonesian (Javanese), Malay, Taiwanese Aborigine, Malagasy, Polynesian (Samoan), and Micronesian (Chamorro). If you are mostly of other ancestry, our Advanced Ancestry Report works better.

Why group these communities in one report?

They all descend from the same Taiwan Neolithic homeland and the Lapita-culture voyages that spread across the Pacific roughly 3000 years ago and as far as Madagascar, the historical threads connecting Filipinos, Indonesians, Malays, Taiwanese Aborigines, Malagasy, Polynesians and Micronesians.

Do I need to have taken a DNA test already?

Yes. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA or LivingDNA, or paste your G25 coordinates.

What is the "ancient regional core" in the report?

We model your DNA against the Taiwan Neolithic Austronesian homeland, the Lapita culture, the Guam Unai and Latte periods, post-Lapita Vanuatu, and the Medieval voyage to Madagascar, the archaeological proxies closest to the ancient Austronesian world.

How much does it cost and what do I get?

€15. A full PDF report with your ancient regional core %, non-regional outside admixture breakdown, best-fit ancestry models with their fits, closest modern community reference populations, Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups (if raw file provided), and a narrative interpreted by Claude AI.

A DNA report for the Austronesian & Pacific world

Lapita is a G25 ancestry report built specifically for the peoples of the Austronesian / Indo-Pacific world. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA, pick your community, and we model your genome against the ancient regional core plus non-regional outside admixture.

Whether you are Filipino, Indonesian (Javanese), Malay, Taiwanese Aborigine from the very homeland of the Austronesian family, Malagasy from the westernmost reach of the expansion, Polynesian, or Micronesian (Chamorro): Lapita models the specific genetic layers of your region's history.

The report uses the Global25 (G25) system developed by geneticist Davidski, placing your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space alongside ancient and modern reference populations, all sourced from Davidski's official Global25 datasheets.

👁 Sample report

See a real Lapita report

Complete example reports, flip through every page: cover, ancient regional core, deep/expansion/settlement/classical/medieval era breakdowns, community reference populations, haplogroups and the AI narrative.

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🇵🇭 Elena · Filipino

The Taiwan Neolithic homeland, the Lapita expansion, and a Filipino community match.

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🇼🇸 Tavita · Polynesian (Samoan)

The same Austronesian expansion streams, seen from the Samoan community's own reference population.