A focused population profile of Afro-Mehri people, their southern Arabian and African-diaspora background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Afro-Mehri refers to a Mehri-associated southern Arabian reference with substantial African-related ancestry. The Mehri-speaking region is most strongly associated with eastern Yemen, Oman-adjacent Mahra, and the wider southern Arabian coast.
Mehri is a Modern South Arabian language, while Arabic is also important in national and regional life. Afro-Mehri identity should be understood through Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and East African historical contact.
As a genetic reference, Afro-Mehri is useful for comparison with Afro-Yemeni Shabwah, Afro-Emirati, Afro-Saudi, Afro-Kuwaiti, Afro-Yemeni Hadramaut, Baggara Chad Highly Arabian-Mixed, Hartani Arab Algeria Algiers, Swahili Zanzibar, Afro-Omani, and Shwashin Arab Libya.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Afro-Mehri is Afro-Yemeni Shabwah. Other nearby references include Afro-Emirati, Afro-Saudi, Afro-Kuwaiti, and Afro-Yemeni Hadramaut. This gives the Afro-Mehri profile its nearest modern genetic context inside the current reference database.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Afro-Mehri ancestry is best interpreted through southern Arabian, Mehri, East African, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean diaspora contexts.
The heatmap should emphasize eastern Yemen, Mahra, southern Arabia, the Gulf, Oman, the Red Sea, East Africa, and related Afro-Arabian comparison zones.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Afro-Yemeni Shabwah. Other nearby references include Afro-Emirati, Afro-Saudi, Afro-Kuwaiti, and Afro-Yemeni Hadramaut.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Afro-Yemeni Shabwah is the closest listed match to the Afro-Mehri average after removing Afro-Mehri itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Afro-Mehri G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
