Genetic cluster analysis showing the ancestral relationships between modern West Eurasians.
A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) scatter plot titled 'Principal Component Analysis of Modern West Eurasians'. It maps genetic data points for numerous ethnicities including Europeans, Caucasions, Iranians, Turks, Jews, and Arabs across two dimensions, highlighting a specific cluster labeled 'Europeans' in a red oval.
Principal Component Analysis of Modern West Eurasians Source: Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170574 Caucasian Iranian Turkish Mizrahi Jewish Europeans North Levantine East Slavic Baltic Central Balkan European Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish South Levantine Sicilian Germanic Italian French Spanish South French Basque Sardinian Arabian Dimension 2 Dimension 1 -0.10 -0.05 0.00 0.05 0.10 0.05 0.00 -0.05 -0.10