What is the non-regional outside admixture layer?

Even for people fully from South Asia, the model includes European, East Asian 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 · South Asia

Sindhu

Your South Asian Roots

From the cities of the Indus Valley Civilization to the Himalayan kingdoms and the Deccan plateau. We model your DNA against the ancient regional core (Indus Valley Civilization, BMAC, Steppe migration, Himalayan Iron Age & Classical layers) and non-regional outside admixture, then show which of 13 communities you most resemble, with an AI narrative.

🏺 Ancient regional core (Indus Valley Civilization, BMAC, Steppe)
🌍 Non-regional outside admixture layer (European, East Asian, Amerindian)
🕉️ 13 South Asian communities compared directly
🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA haplogroup classification
📊 Deep / Bronze Age / Iron Age / Classical / Medieval breakdowns
🤖 Results interpreted by Claude AI

⚠️ Designed for people of predominantly South Asian ancestry. Works for any of the 13 communities: Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Rajasthani, Sinhalese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Nepali, Pashtun, Marathi, Burusho, and Kalash. 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.

Punjabi

Punjab, the Indus-Ganges divide, straddling India and Pakistan

Sindhi

Sindh, the lower Indus Valley, the region's namesake

Tamil

Dravidian-speaking Tamil Nadu, southeastern India

Rajasthani

Rajasthan, the Thar desert and the Rajput heartland

Sinhalese

Sri Lanka's majority Sinhala-speaking population

Bengali

Bengal, the eastern Gangetic delta, India and Bangladesh

Gujarati

Gujarat, the western coast

Kashmiri

Kashmir, the Himalayan northwest

Nepali

Nepal, the Himalayan midlands

Pashtun

Pashtun-speaking Afghanistan/Pakistan borderlands

Marathi

Maharashtra, the western Deccan

Burusho

Hunza Valley, a genetically distinct Karakoram isolate

Kalash

Chitral valley, a famously distinct pre-Islamic Hindu Kush isolate

🔎 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 South Asian populations: the Indus Valley Civilization (via the Shahr-i-Sokhta trade-contact profile), BMAC, the Sintashta-Andronovo steppe migration, and the Himalayan Iron Age.

🏛️ Classical & Medieval layers

The Classical Himalayan Kingdoms era, followed by the Arab conquest of Sindh (8th century), modelled as their own periods rather than folded into earlier ages.

🌍 Non-regional outside admixture

Even for people fully from the region, we include European, East Asian 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 13 South Asian 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 a South Asian context (e.g. R1a Indo-Aryan/steppe, H Indian-subcontinent, L1 South Asian).

43 reference populations

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

Amerindian proxy

Amerindian (North) proxy · Amerindian (South) proxy

Ancient South Asia

BMAC, Bactria-Margiana (Bronze Age) · Classical Himalayan Kingdoms (Nepal, Samdzong) · Early Medieval North India (Roopkund, c. 800 CE) · Gandhara Grave Culture (Swat, Butkara, Iron Age) · Gandhara Grave Culture (Swat, Katelai, Iron Age) · Gandhara Grave Culture (Swat, Loebanr, Iron Age) · Gandhara Grave Culture (Swat, Udegram, Iron Age) · Gandhara Historic Period (Swat, Butkara, Classical) · Ghaznavid Empire (Swat, Udegram, Medieval) · Himalayan Iron Age (Nepal, Chokhopani) · Himalayan Iron Age (Nepal, Kyang) · Himalayan Iron Age (Nepal, Lubrak) · Himalayan Iron Age (Nepal, Mebrak) · Himalayan Iron Age (Nepal, Rhirhi) · Himalayan Iron Age (Nepal, Suila) · Indus Valley Civilization (Shahr-i-Sokhta, IVC Profile) (Bronze Age) · Kushan Empire (Tajikistan, Ksirov, Classical) · Sintashta-Andronovo Steppe Migration (Bronze Age)

Deep ancestral sources

AASI, Ancient Ancestral South Indian (Onge proxy) · Han (East Asian proxy) · Iranian Neolithic farmer · Steppe (Yamnaya) · Yoruba (West African proxy)

Medieval sources

Arab Conquest of Sindh (Medieval)

Modern South Asian communities

Bengali · Burusho (Hunza) · Gujarati · Kalash · Kashmiri Muslim · Kashmiri Pandit · Malayali · Marathi · Nepali (Khas Bahun Brahmin) · Odia · Pashtun · Punjabi · Rajasthani · Sindhi · Sinhalese (Sri Lanka) · Tamil · Telugu

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, caste, 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 13 communities in one report? They share the same deep Indus Valley Civilization and steppe-migration layers, the Indo-Aryan language spread, and the historical threads connecting the Indus-Ganges plains, the Himalayan midlands, the Deccan and the Karakoram/Hindu Kush isolates. Some communities (Burusho, Kalash) are famously distinct genetic isolates, and this is reflected honestly in their fit.

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

Get your Sindhu 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 Sindhu report for?

It is built for people of predominantly South Asian ancestry across any of 13 communities: Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Rajasthani, Sinhalese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Nepali, Pashtun, Marathi, Burusho, and Kalash. If you are mostly of other ancestry, our Advanced Ancestry Report works better.

Why group these communities in one report?

They share the same deep Indus Valley Civilization and steppe-migration layers, the Indo-Aryan language spread, and the historical threads connecting the Indus-Ganges plains, the Himalayan midlands, the Deccan and the Karakoram/Hindu Kush isolates like the Burusho and Kalash.

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 Indus Valley Civilization (via the Shahr-i-Sokhta trade-contact profile), BMAC, the Sintashta-Andronovo steppe migration, and Himalayan Iron Age and Classical-era layers, the archaeological proxies closest to the ancient peoples of South Asia.

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 South Asia

Sindhu is a G25 ancestry report built specifically for the peoples of South Asia. 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 Punjabi from the Indus-Ganges divide, Sindhi from the lower Indus Valley, Tamil from the Dravidian south, Rajasthani from the Thar desert, Sinhalese from Sri Lanka, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Nepali, Pashtun, Marathi, or from the famously distinct Burusho or Kalash isolates: Sindhu 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 Sindhu report

Complete example reports, flip through every page: cover, ancient regional core, deep/Bronze/Iron/Classical/Medieval era breakdowns, community reference populations, haplogroups and the AI narrative.

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🇮🇳 Arjun · Punjabi

Indus Valley Civilization and steppe-migration layers, a Himalayan Iron Age signal, and a Punjabi community match.

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🛕 Meera · Tamil

The same deep South Asian streams, seen from the Dravidian-speaking south's own Tamil community reference population.