Kim YU, 26 Park Slope, Brooklyn

What she says: A San Diego native, Yu said her mother’s family goes back to 17th-century Taiwan, when the Dutch occupied the island. There are rumors about having Dutch blood in the family, especially since her grandmother was nicknamed “Redhead” for her light hair.

Her father’s side is primarily from northern and eastern China, with family in Nanjing and Shandong, though his family escaped to Taiwan during the communist takeover after World War II. Yu is holding her parents’ engagement photo in Taipei. Alder and Karen left Taiwan in the 1980s to pursue the American Dream, she said.

“They worked really hard,” Yu said. “They did everything from running a pizza shop to working at the flea market, until eventually running an import-export business.”

What her genes say: Yu is more than 99 percent Asian with a tiny percentage of European heritage — possibly the mysterious Dutch link, though it couldn’t be confirmed.

Her maternal DNA originated more than 50,000 years ago in Central Asia. Then, migrants crossing the land bridge connecting Siberia to Alaska 12,000 years back carried it to America.

That means the DNA in Yu’s family actually is common today among Native Americans from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

First, her genes crossed into America; then her family followed thousands of years later, Yu joked.

“Being Eastern Asian wasn’t surprising at all,” Yu said. “But it was an amusing coincidence that my [DNA] corresponded to the Southwest, especially because I was born in San Diego.”