Autosomal results of Mauritians

[El_Abominacion]

Making this thread to show the variation and mixes found in people from Mauritius. Mauritians in diaspora typically mix a lot with natives, so some results will be of people with a non-Mauritian parent/grandparent.




A short background on the genetics of Mauritius, with some speculative data (Demographics are poorly recorded on the island):
- Some 70% of Mauritians are of fully Indian descent. (Surprisingly, I have literally 0 fully South Asian Mauritian DNA relatives on 23andMe)
- Creoles, or mixed Mauritians -particularly referencing those mixed with African ancestry- make up 25% (The community my father's side of the family belongs to)
- Whites and Chinese make up the remaining 5%


- There was no native population, everyone has 'foreign' ancestry
- Though the Arabs first found the island and the Portuguese later came across it (naming Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues the Mascarene Islands after Pedro Mascarenhas), it was only colonised by the Dutch, French and British.
- Indentured labourers were taken from China, India, Madagascar, mainland Africa and the Malay archipelago to work on sugar cane plantations, but India as visible today clearly provided most of the workers. There has since been free migration between the aforementioned nations and many people have a foreign born parent, grandparent etc.
- A large part of the culture is Indian derived and most Indo-Mauritians are multilingual in French, English and their ancestral language.

[El_Abominacion]

Sino-Mauritian DNA relative with what looks like some Creole Admixture

[El_Abominacion]

What looks to be a Creole with more Chinese ancestry







Half South African half Mauritian

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I have a Sino-Mauritian friend. His Chinese side is Hakka. Is that the most common there?

[El_Abominacion]

A typically mixed Mauritian with (I believe) 4 native grandparents

[El_Abominacion]

I have a Sino-Mauritian friend. His Chinese side is Hakka. Is that the most common there?

Chinese ancestry in itself is more uncommon than i've shown so far in Mauritius, but I believe Southern Han are the most common Chinese diaspora group on the island

[El_Abominacion]

AncestryDNA of a full Mauritian

[El_Abominacion]

What appears to be another fully Mauritian DNA relative

[Thambi]

cool results. very mixed just like you haha.

do you have any indo-mauritian results? they make up 3/4 of mauritius population.

[El_Abominacion]

cool results. very mixed just like you haha.

do you have any indo-mauritian results? they make up 3/4 of mauritius population.

Unfortunately I have none even close to 100% on 23andMe, Indo-Mauritians are typically 100% South Asian (historically Creoles and Franco-Mauritians were allied against Indo-Mauritians during colonial times ). I'll keep looking on AncestryDNA, for what it's worth a lot of Tamils and Biharis were taken to the island so the results all make sense, with all the Southern South Asian and Northeast Indian + Bengali showing up