Greater Middle Eastern (Middle Eastern or North African or Persian) ancestry reference population Middle East reference superpopulation (HGDP) Middle East (HGDP) This category was created to facilitate the grouping of reference populations into the superpopulations they were allocated to in the context of the project in which they were collected. This classification is intended for project provenance traceability and does not imply any kind of biological difference. A reference population made up of samples from individuals with a Middle East Ancestry as part of the Human Genome Diversity Project.