What is the non-regional outside admixture layer?

Even for people fully from Central Asia, the model includes West African, East Asian, generic West Eurasian and Amerindian proxies. This gives any real non-regional ancestry an escape valve instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

Turan: Silk Road & Central Asian DNA Report | Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak, Dungan, Bashkir

From the Bronze Age Andronovo steppe pastoralists and the Bactria-Margiana oasis farmers of the BMAC, through Saka and Wusun nomads, the Kushan Empire's Silk Road cities, to the Turkic Khaganate and the Golden Horde. We model your DNA against the ancient regional core and non-regional outside admixture, then show which of 8 communities you most resemble, with an AI narrative.

🏺 Ancient regional core (Andronovo, BMAC, Saka/Wusun/Sarmatian)
🌍 Non-regional outside admixture layer (African, East Asian, European, Amerindian)
🐫 8 Central Asian Turkic communities compared directly
🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA haplogroup classification
📊 Deep / Bronze Age / Iron Age / Classical Silk Road / Medieval breakdowns
🤖 Results interpreted by Claude AI

⚠️ Designed for people of predominantly Central Asian / Silk Road Turkic ancestry. Works for any of the 8 communities: Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak, Dungan, Bashkir. 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.

Kazakh

The steppes of Kazakhstan, from the Altai to the Caspian

Uzbek

The Silk Road oasis cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and the Fergana Valley

Turkmen

The Karakum desert and Caspian lowlands of Turkmenistan

Uyghur

The Tarim Basin oasis towns of Xinjiang, Kashgar to Turpan

Kyrgyz

The Tian Shan highlands of Kyrgyzstan

Karakalpak

The Aral Sea delta of the Amu Darya, Karakalpakstan

Dungan

Hui-descended Chinese Muslim communities of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan

Bashkir

The southern Ural mountains of Bashkortostan

🔎 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 Central Asian populations: Bronze Age Andronovo steppe pastoralists and BMAC Bactria-Margiana oasis farmers, and the Iron Age Saka/Scythian, Wusun and Sarmatian nomads.

🏛️ Classical & Medieval eras

The Silk Road and medieval layers: the Kushan Empire's oasis civilization, the Xiongnu steppe confederation, the Turkic Khaganate, and the Golden Horde of the Mongol era.

🌍 Non-regional outside admixture

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

🐫 Community profile

Which of the 8 Central 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 Central Asian context (e.g. C2/N steppe lineages, R1a Andronovo-related, O East Asian oasis contact).

42 reference populations

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

Amerindian proxy

Amerindian (North) proxy · Amerindian (South) proxy

Ancient Turan

Deep European proxy (generic West Eurasian) · Han (East Asian proxy) · Yoruba (West African proxy)

Deep ancestral sources

Anatolian Neolithic farmer · Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) · Ancient Northeast Asian (Mongolia Neolithic) · Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG) · Eastern Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) · Iranian Neolithic farmer · Steppe (Yamnaya) · Western Hunter-Gatherer (WHG)

Modern Central Asian communities

Bashkir · Dungan · Karakalpak · Kazakh · Kyrgyz · Turkmen · Uyghur · Uzbek

Your Bronze Age ancestry

Afanasievo, Altai steppe (Early Bronze Age) · Andronovo, steppe pastoralist (Bronze Age) · BMAC, Bactria-Margiana oasis farmer (Bronze Age) · Botai horse culture (Copper/Bronze Age, N. Kazakhstan) · Dali, East-Asian-shifted steppe (Early Bronze Age) · Okunevo, Siberian steppe (Bronze Age) · Ulaanzuukh, East Mongolia (Late Bronze Age)

Your Classical Silk Road ancestry

Kangju, Silk Road state (Classical, S. Kazakhstan) · Kushan Empire, Silk Road oasis civilization (Classical) · Xiongnu, steppe confederation (Classical)

Your Iron Age ancestry

Pazyryk, Altai Scythian (Iron Age) · Saka / Scythian, Tian Shan steppe nomad (Iron Age) · Sarmatian, Ural steppe (Iron Age) · Slab Grave culture, Mongolia (Early Iron Age) · Tasmola, early Saka (Iron Age, C. Kazakhstan) · Wusun, Tarim Basin confederation (Iron Age)

Your Medieval ancestry

Golden Horde, Mongol-era Central Asia (Medieval) · Karakhanid, first Muslim Turkic dynasty (Medieval) · Karluk, medieval Turkic tribe · Kipchak, medieval steppe confederation · Turkic Khaganate (Medieval)

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 8 communities in one report? They share the same deep steppe and oasis layers, and the successive eras (Andronovo, BMAC, Saka, Kushan, Turkic Khaganate, Golden Horde) that shaped Central Asia, the historical threads connecting Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak, Dungan and Bashkir peoples.

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

Get your Turan 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 Turan report for?

It is built for people of predominantly Central Asian / Silk Road Turkic ancestry across any of 8 communities: Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak, Dungan, and Bashkir. 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 steppe and oasis layers, and the successive Andronovo, BMAC, Saka, Kushan, Turkic Khaganate and Golden Horde eras that shaped Central Asia, the historical threads connecting Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak, Dungan and Bashkir peoples.

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 Bronze Age Andronovo steppe pastoralists and BMAC Bactria-Margiana oasis farmers, the Iron Age Saka/Scythian, Wusun and Sarmatian nomads, the Classical Kushan Empire and Xiongnu, and the Medieval Turkic Khaganate and Golden Horde, the archaeological proxies closest to the ancient peoples of the Silk Road and Central Asian steppe.

How does this connect to the Legend Check feature?

The Medieval section models the Golden Horde, the Mongol-descended khanate that ruled Central Asia after Genghis Khan's 13th-century conquest. If that component shows up strongly in your results, our separate Legend Check feature can directly test the "Genghis Khan / steppe warrior ancestor" family legend against your DNA.

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 Silk Road & Central Asia

Turan is a G25 ancestry report built specifically for the peoples of the Silk Road and the Central Asian steppe. 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 Kazakh from the vast steppes north of the Aral, Uzbek or Turkmen from the Silk Road oasis cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, Uyghur from the Tarim Basin, Kyrgyz from the Tian Shan highlands, Karakalpak from the Amu Darya delta, Dungan, a Hui-descended Chinese Muslim community, or Bashkir from the southern Urals: Turan 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 Turan 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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🇰🇿 Aigerim · Kazakh

Andronovo steppe pastoralists, Saka/Scythian Tian Shan nomads, and the medieval Golden Horde layer, matched to a Kazakh community reference.

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🇨🇳 Dilnoza · Uyghur (auto-detect)

The same Silk Road ancient core seen through the Wusun/Tarim Basin lens, with the community auto-detected rather than picked.

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