TE IRA TANGATA MĀORI DNA PROJECT

DNA test results can be used to make connections with known and unknown whānau, hapū and iwi

Project goals

• To facilitate collaboration and connections between testers 

• To provide information to project participants about their DNA results

• To support participants to use their DNA results in order to establish genealogical connections with project members and other matches

The project is open to

• NZ Māori with Family Finder (autosomal or atDNA) results - from a direct test at FTDNA or from a raw data upload/transfer from Ancestry, MyHeritage, 23andMe or LivingDNA, and/or

• NZ Māori with mtDNA test results indicating a Māori/Polynesian mtDNA haplogroup, and/or

• NZ Māori with Y-DNA test results indicating a Māori/Polynesian Y-DNA haplogroup

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Known NZ Māori/Moana/Oceanian* Y-DNA haplogroups 

• K-M9 
• C-M208
• C-M216
• C-M38
• O-B450
• O-M175
• O-P164
• S-P307

Known NZ Māori/Moana/Oceanian** mtDNA haplogroups

• B4a1a1 (sometimes referred to as the Polynesian motif)
• B4a1a1-T16126C
• B4a1a1a
• B4a1a1a18
• B4a1a1a22
• B4a1a1c
• B4a1a1m1
• B4a1a1n

* These Y-DNA haplogroups are not unique to Māori, they indicate the ancestral haplogroups (similar to a genetic clan or iwi) of Māori and others from the Moana and Asia. 

** These mtDNA haplogroups are not for the most part unique to Māori, they indicate the ancestral haplogroups (similar to a genetic clan or iwi) and others from the Moana and Asia.