SourcesEvery reference dataset, its licence and its citation

Where this data comes from

Every number in your report is computed against public reference data. This is all of it, with the licence each one carries and how to cite it.

Generated from the project manifest, so it cannot fall out of step with what is actually being used.

Reference datasets

1000 Genomes Project, phase 3 — Omni 2.5M array genotypes

Licence: Fort Lauderdale / unrestricted public use
Cite as: 1000 Genomes Project Consortium (2015). A global reference for human genetic variation. Nature 526(7571). 10.1038/nature15393

1000 Genomes Project, phase 3 integrated genotypes

Licence: Fort Lauderdale / unrestricted public use
Cite as: 1000 Genomes Project Consortium (2015). A global reference for human genetic variation. Nature 526(7571). 10.1038/nature15393

Vendor array marker definitions

Licence: Mixed, per vendor — see per-file notes

Variant annotations — dbSNP, ClinVar, GWAS Catalog

Licence: Public domain (dbSNP, ClinVar) / EMBL-EBI terms (GWAS Catalog)
Cite as: Sherry et al. (2001). dbSNP: the NCBI database of genetic variation. Nucleic Acids Research 29(1). Landrum et al. (2018). ClinVar: improving access to variant interpretations and supporting evidence. Nucleic Acids Research 46(D1). Sollis et al. (2023). The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: knowledgebase and deposition resource. Nucleic Acids Research 51(D1).

Ensembl GRCh37 to GRCh38 assembly mapping chain

Licence: Apache-2.0

Ensembl NCBI36 to GRCh38 assembly mapping chain

Licence: Apache-2.0

PhyloTree mtDNA tree, Build 17

Licence: Free to use, citation required
Cite as: van Oven M, Kayser M (2009). Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation. Hum Mutat 30(2):E386-E394. 10.1002/humu.20921

ISOGG Y-DNA Haplogroup Tree (2016.01.04 index, via yhaplo)

Licence: NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH ONLY — must be licensed before revenue

Illumina Infinium Global Screening Array v3.0 manifest (GSA-24v3-0_A1, CSV)

Licence: UNRESOLVED — labelled "For Research Use Only"; redistribution terms not read

Personal Genome Project Harvard — public consumer genotype files

Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)

DIY admixture calculators — 28 published models, rsID-keyed allele frequencies

Licence: UNSTATED, AND THAT IS STILL THE FINDING -- but it decides a narrower question than it used to. These are hobbyist publications from personal blogs (Harappa Ancestry Project, Dodecad, Eurogenes, MDLP, PuntDNAL). The aggregator that redistributes them says only "all the calculator files are properties of their authors, and are not covered by the license of this program". No author states terms. AMENDED 2026-08-30, owner decision. Absent terms blocks REDISTRIBUTION and blocks REVENUE. It does not block internal use by a free tool that publishes no frequencies: these files are already public downloads, we re-publish nothing, and what leaves the system is one person's own percentages. The licence state stays `unclear`, which is the mechanism -- usable now, cleared with each author before anyone charges. A separate caution, which is neither a licence nor a privacy matter and is NOT A BLOCK: every component here is a CLUSTER from somebody's unsupervised ADMIXTURE run at a K they chose, not an average over labelled people. "Caucasian" in HarappaWorld corresponds to no group anyone sampled. WHEN IT BINDS: only when a cluster is SHOWN to a reader beside one of our own components, because the reader will compare two numbers that are different kinds of object. Then it needs a caption. Using one as an internal qpAdm vertex triggers nothing -- nothing about it reaches the report, so there is nothing to mislabel.

HapMap Phase II genetic map, PLINK format, lifted to GRCh38

Licence: Public. HapMap released all of its data with no licensing conditions in December 2004, dropping the click-wrap agreement it had used until then. Everything downstream of that is a coordinate transformation of it.
Cite as: The International HapMap Consortium. A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs. Nature 449:851-861 (2007). Map estimated with LDhat, averaged over the CEU, YRI and ASN panels. Lifted b35 to GRCh37 by Adam Auton (2010-12-08), converted to PLINK format by Brian Browning, lifted GRCh37 to GRCh38 by Xiaowen Tian.

Ensembl EPO human ancestral genome, e59 (GRCh37)

Licence: Fort Lauderdale / unrestricted public use
Cite as: Paten B. et al. (2008). Enredo and Pecan: genome-wide mammalian consistency-based multiple alignment with paralogs. Genome Research 18.

SPrime introgressed-variant calls, 1000 Genomes non-African populations and SGDP Papuans (all 20 populations)

Licence: CC BY 4.0
Cite as: Browning SR, Browning BL, Zhou Y, Tucci S, Akey JM (2018). Analysis of human sequence data reveals two pulses of Archaic Denisovan admixture. Cell 173(1):53-61. 10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.031

Beagle 5.5 + conform-gt, for reference phasing (ADR-0026)

Licence: GPL-3.0 — invoked as a separate jar, never linked (ADR-0026 records why that is the compliant shape)
Cite as: Browning, B.L., Tian, X., Zhou, Y., and Browning, S.R. (2021). Fast two-stage phasing of large-scale sequence data. Am J Hum Genet 108. 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.08.005

geoBoundaries gbOpen ADM2 districts, five South Asian countries

Licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL)

geoBoundaries CGAZ, second-level administrative units, worldwide

Licence: MIXED BY COUNTRY. geoBoundaries publishes CGAZ as "CC BY 4.0 / ODbL" because each country's units keep the terms of the source they came from: India's ADM2 is Open Data Commons ODbL 1.0, which is share-alike, and others are CC BY 4.0. The composite is therefore not distributable under CC BY alone.

D-PLACE, ethnographic societies with coordinates

Licence: DISPUTED BY ITS OWN PUBLISHERS, and recorded that way on purpose. github.com/D-PLACE/dplace-data declares CC-BY-4.0 in its repository metadata; d-place.org/about states "licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License". NonCommercial is the stricter of the two and the one a commercial product would be judged against, so it is the one assumed here.

GeoEPR 2021, settlement polygons for politically relevant ethnic groups

Licence: NONE STATED. The download page asks for a citation — Vogt et al. 2015, Journal of Conflict Research 59(7) — and says nothing about terms of use, redistribution or commercial use. Absent terms is not permission.

Census of India 2011, A-11 Appendix — district-wise Scheduled Tribe population

Licence: Government Open Data Licence – India (GODL). Attribution required; commercial use permitted. The most permissive of the three map sources we hold, and the only one whose flag below is set for a reason other than the licence itself.

Natural Earth 1:50m physical and cultural vectors

Licence: public domain

ETOPO 2022 global relief, 60 arc-second surface elevation

Licence: public domain (US Government work, NOAA NCEI)

Natural Earth 1:10m physical regions and glaciated areas

Licence: public domain

Natural Earth 1:10m admin-1 states and provinces

Licence: public domain

Natural Earth 10m admin-1 states and provinces

Licence: public domain

Ancestry region outlines, thirteen components

Licence: public domain

Software and assets

Natural Earth vector map data — Public domain
Lucide icons — ISC

What we do not use

No dataset here was collected by us, and we hold no samples. Everything is published reference data from research consortia, used under the licences above. Your file is kept and will be used to build future panels alongside the sources above.