Editing Basters (section)

===Religion and genetics===
Basters from Mainline churches are mostly [[Calvinist]]. They sing traditional hymns almost identical to those of the 17th-century Netherlands; these songs were preserved in the colony and their group during a period when the Netherlands churches were absorbing new music.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

The average gene pool of Basters is about 48.4% European, 28,5% [[Khoisan|Khoe-San]], 17.1% Asian and 5.7% [[Bantu peoples|Bantu]];<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Petersen |first1=Desiree C. |last2=Libiger |first2=Ondrej |last3=Tindall |first3=Elizabeth A. |last4=Hardie |first4=Rae-Anne |last5=Hannick |first5=Linda I. |last6=Glashoff |first6=Richard H. |last7=Mukerji |first7=Mitali |last8=Fernandez |first8=Pedro |last9=Haacke |first9=Wilfrid |last10=Schork |first10=Nicholas J. |last11=Hayes |first11=Vanessa M. |date=2013-03-14 |title=Complex Patterns of Genomic Admixture within Southern Africa |journal=PLOS Genetics |language=en |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=e1003309 |doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003309 |doi-access=free |pmid=23516368 |pmc=3597481 |issn=1553-7404 }}</ref> according to a 2013 [[Autosome|autosomal genealogical DNA testing]].