A focused population profile of Yemeni Arabs, their southern Arabian background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Yemeni Arabs are the Arabic-speaking population of Yemen, a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen includes highlands, coastal plains, desert regions, and historic cities such as Sana'a, Taiz, Aden, and Hadramaut.
Yemen has several Arabic varieties, including Sanaani, Ta'izzi-Adeni, Hadrami, and other regional dialects. The country's older history also includes ancient South Arabian kingdoms and long-standing Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Arabian trade connections.
Because Yemen is geographically and historically distinct from the Gulf and central Arabia, Yemeni Arab genetic results can form a southern Arabian pole within broader Arabian comparisons.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, Yemeni Arab is expected to sit close to other Yemeni regional references and to nearby Arabian Peninsula populations. It can differ from Najdi or Gulf Arab profiles because of Yemen's southern Arabian setting.
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The ancestral breakdown should be read with the modern closest matches. Yemeni Arab ancestry is best interpreted as southern Arabian, with regional variation between highland, coastal, Hadrami, and other Yemeni references.
The heatmap should focus on Yemen and southern Arabia, with close zones extending toward neighboring Arabian Peninsula references.
Yemeni Arabs are Arabic-speaking southern Arabians and sit within the broader Arabian Peninsula genetic landscape, while also forming a distinct southern Arabian profile.
Yemeni Arab references can be close to Saudi and other Arabian references, but they often represent a more southern Arabian profile than Najdi or Gulf Arabs.
Some Yemeni subprofiles in the database are labeled SSA-shifted, reflecting Red Sea and historical contact. The broad Yemeni Arab reference should be interpreted separately from those specific mixed profiles.
