On Ancestry DNA test, how long for results?
While Ancestry.com says to expect around 6 to 8 weeks for the results of Ancestry DNA, from my own experience and the experiences of many other people, it usually takes around 3 to 4 weeks, quite faster. Really, from the day you mail your sample off until you get the results in your account takes 3 to 4 weeks for a whole lot of folks, and this is even from a big sale. The other companies like 23andme usually do take 6 to 8 weeks, btw.
Are my ancestry dna test results true or wrong?
I live in virginia and im iraqi and muslim i did ancestry dna test and it showed that im 72% european and 8% sub saharan african & 10% east asian and 10% native american so is it true or wrong and please no hurtful comments
Has any Mexican done an ancestry DNA test (explain the results)?
Hi,I’m Mexican and recently I received my results from 23andme.My results have been discussed previously in other answers, as you can read here Are you of mixed ethnicity? If so, what mix are you? and here What race are Mexicans? for example.As Pepe Medina mentions on his answer, basically all Mexicans are mestizo, meaning they have a mix of at least a couple of ethnicities, such as Native American (Amerindian or Indigenous blood) and European (mostly Iberian) but can also have African, Middle Eastern and Asian as well.So, without further ado, here are my results.The general picture of Ancestry starts with two almost obvious groups based on the history of Mexico (and basically all of Latin America): European and Native American (45 and 43% respectively).Then we have 3.3 of Sub-Saharan African and 2.7% of Middle East/Northern African.What’s interesting about the new update from 23andme is that you can also see the breakdown of each large ethnic group, let’s give it a quick look!As I explained at the beginning of my answer, and by no surprise, Iberian (Spain) shows up on top with more than half or the 44.7%. Broadly Southern European includes Spain and Broadly European include Spain (as well as Portugal, Italy and Greece) so we can say that almost all my European blood is from that region, but what surprised me a bit was the 0.8% Balkan and the 1.7% Ashkenazi Jewish.The second part of the map (East Asian & Native American) it is Native American specifically from Mexico. No surprises here.The final part of my map was very interesting. I kind of knew/felt that I had some distant Sub-saharan African blood and this just confirms it. And the Arabian/Middle eastern part wasn’t a surprise, either.The report from 23andme has other cool features, which I won’t discuss here, but it can trace the probable years the last full blooded relative from each ethnicity ‘showed up’ on your ‘map’.Thanks for the A2A Eliud Rodriguez
Ancestry DNA Test Results are Distressing?
I took an Ancestry DNA test, here are the results: 45% Italy/Greece 2% European Jewish 2% Iberian Peninsula 45% Caucasus 6% Middle Eastern Most of this seems accurate, except there's no British. My maternal great grandmother was definitely English. Her last name was Critch and she migrated from England to Canada and then to the States, which I've confirmed with Ancestry records. I've seen pictures of her, she was definitely an English woman. So my grandfather was definitely half English and half Italian. Either this test is inaccurate or my grandmother cheated on my grandfather and he is not my mother's father. I seriously doubt it, she was a very old fashioned Italian woman, virgin on her wedding day and all. I have a basic understanding of DNA but I haven't taken a biology course in years, could someone who understands how these tests work shed some light? It's really upsetting me and I'd like to know how accurate these tests are. I took the test because I wanted to see if I had any Scandinavian blood because I was 100% positive I was English. I'm sorry if this is poorly worded or hard to follow, so in summation: my mother's grandmother was English and her son, my mother's father, was half English and Italian. My DNA test results are contrasting. As far as the Caucasus goes, I know that's accurate because my father is 100% Armenian. Thank you for any help!
What are Chinese people’s DNA ancestry test results?
My wife is completely Cantonese on both sides. Her mother is from Foshan, her father is from HK, and her grandparents are also from those respective places. Her father’s family know their ancestrial home is in Guangdong. They have no knowledge of their ancestors living anywhere outside of Guangdong.We did a 23&me DNA test for her, and then used a Chinese company, Wegene, to analyze theraw data from 23&me, hoping for more sophisticated results, since most of the 23&me database is Europeans and Americans (the later mostly white with a handful of African Americans).Here is what we found:23&meWEGENELike most people Han in Southern China, especially in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, etc. They do have admixture with various minority groups that are related to modern Tai (Zhuang, Dai) speakers, Hmong (Miao, Yao), Viet…but mostly…the first two. I’ve talked about this before at length, and cited some population genetic studies:Collin Spears's answer to Are Cantonese people genetically Southeast Asians?Basically Han men cross the Changjiang (Jiangzi) and absorbed or Sinonized various “100 Yue” groups that lived in the region. The gene flow was bias toward Han Males and Local indigenous females…however Cantonese speakers have a quite high degree of indigenous males that also seem to have been absorbed into the Han community.I do not believe my wife actually has ancestry from Southeast Asia. Instead she has some mixture (likely on both sides of her family) with minority groups in China (that exist today or have been completely absorbed) that have relatives that migrated to Southeast Asia under Han expansionist pressure.Besides the strange European signal, which I think is simply random error, I believe my wife is typical of most Cantonese speakers who have ancestry from the Pearl River Delta.Her results would not reflect what is average for people in Dongbei, Sichuan, Shanxi…for more on that:Here is a good study: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/...Basically there is no such thing as a “pure Han”, maybe there never was. Han is more a cultural/political group with some rough patrilineal relationship based on distance ancestry (maybe going back 5–10,000 years)…as far as autosomal analysis, they are clearly mixed and the exact mixture is based on region of China.You can see that here-
Can you compare 23andMe and Ancestry DNA test results?
There is a good comparison chart of all 3 companies at the International Society Of Genetic Genealogy website: Autosomal DNA testing comparison chartMy personal view is that 23andMe has a large database and some powerful tools for using the DNA data, and a very poor system for Trees and messaging. AncestryDNA has the best Trees and genealogy Tools, but refuses to provide a way to see the shared DNA segments. They, too, have a cumbersome messaging system. Neither company posts emails of the Matches. Some folks like the Admixture/Ethnicity/Geography maps of one, some like the other, but no company has a very precise system. And even if they did, you only got a very small fraction of the DNA of your distant ancestors, so most of us say to take those report with a grain of salt.The third major company is FamilyTreeDNA, which currently has the lowest priced autosomalDNA test kit price (and are the only major company providing Y and mt DNA tests. At FTDNA you get the DNA data, some good tools, and the emails each Match.As mentioned in another post GEDmatch accepts uploads of the raw DNA data and will compare your kit to anyone else who has also uploaded and provide a list of 2,000 Matches with emails. They also have the best tools for comparing your Matches to each other - from any of the companies.
How accurate are Ancestry's DNA tests?
I am no expert on DNA nor a scientist of any kind. But I know from experience that the DNA tests do accurately match you with others with whom you share DNA. The ethnicity estimates are just that - estimates. But in my case at least, they correspond accurately to what I know about my ancestry.I’m going anonymous on this question because this involves something I haven't told anyone but my significant other.I am the product of an affair my mother had. My parents have remained married. Growing up, I had no reason to suspect I was not my father's child. My parents did not tell me until I was an adult. They told me that they thought the man with whom my mother had had an affair was my biological father, though it was possible my dad was my biological father.Naturally, I wanted to know for sure. My dad will always be my dad to me, DNA or no DNA. He was the one that carried me to bed until I was 10, taught me to drive, brought me one flower every time he brought my mom a bouquet. He was and will always be my dad. Still, I still wanted to know for sure. But I didn't want to risk hurting him by asking him to take a DNA test with me, so I let it go.Some years later, I made a family tree on Ancestry. I wanted to fill in what I could while some of my older family members were still alive and could answer questions. While on the site, I read about their DNA testing and was intrigued. I wasn't even thinking about my paternity issue; I was just curious to see what mix of nationalities I have (I'm American).But when the results came in, I was stunned. My dad is the child of Italian immigrants. I had always identified as half Italian. I still thought of my dad as my biological father, even though I knew it was possible he wasn't. But my test results did not show ANY percentage as “Italy/Greece”. Then I looked at the list of others who had taken the test and who had some matching DNA. I saw, as expected, cousins from my mother's side of the family. But I also saw multiple matches who had the last name or were descended from someone with the last name of the man with whom my mother had had the affair. I had my answer. DNA knew the truth.
I think i messed up my ancestry DNA test?!?
No, you would get the same ethnicity results from a company regardless of whether you waited an hour or thirty minutes, just as long as the company's lab was able to extract enough DNA from your saliva. Your ethnicity results are dependent on not only what your ethnic background is, but by how wll you compare to their reference population samples and algorithm. 23andme if you are European or Asian, does typically give better results than ancestry since they have far greater European reference samples. If you are African descent, ancestry.com would be better. But you will have different ethnicity results on each company because they have their own algorithm and reference database. So you didn't mess up your test. Messing up your test would have been if the lab says they couldn't extract enough DNA from your saliva, which could have happened when you drank water, but didn't. But still if you had have gone over an hour without putting anything in your mouth, you would have gotten the same results.