The DNA Test
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Have you had your DNA tested?
Comments (49)"For one thing, they have a specific focus on Parkinson's Disease (the founder's husband is at high risk), and are involved in its research. They offer a free test kit to anyone diagnosed with the disease." alisande When I read that I went to their website and requested a free test since I have Parkinson's. Just received it earlier this week. After I went through the whole registration I found out I will only have access to ancestry information and not any health information. I would have liked to have had access to that health information but can't complain, it was free after all. Hope my DNA helps with the Parkinson's study. December 2013 – Pending an FDA decision, 23andMe no longer offers new customers access to health reports. Customers who received their health information prior to November 22, 2013 will still be able to see their health reports, but those who purchased after that time will only receive their ancestry information as well as access to their uninterpreted raw data....See MoreAncestry.com DNA test (or others)?
Comments (15)I’ve had my DNA done through Ancestry and use it mostly for cousin matching. Within each person's ethnicity estimate, you can expand each region to learn more about it. Ancestry has a series of short videos on their DNA test that I found very informative: https://www.ancestry.com/academy/course/ancestry-dna-101 There one video of less than 7 minutes that’s specifically about ethnicity. You might want to check it out. As I recall, it said that the ethnicity estimates go back 500 to 1000 years....See MoreDog DNA Tests
Comments (28)Thanks, Cam! She IS very kissable, and loves to give kisses and cuddle. She had had a litter of pups 6 weeks before her owners brought her to a shelter. She's a mixed breed, and they bred her with who knows what, and they were getting rid of her planning to SELL the pups. A few weeks later, they were back with 5 of the pups, and they were keeping one. I found this out as I was told she came from a shelter in WI, and I did some detective work. I called the shelter and spoke to the woman there who thought she was so sweet that she brought her home to her house each night, so she wouldn't have to sleep in the shelter. Normally the rescue dogs that I transport come with a collar and their papers. This woman from the shelter sent treats, several toys, one being a stuffed dog that was bigger than Ginger, a dog bed with her name on it, a sweater, a pink leash, and a big fleece throw that I use to this day! The woman even emailed me and asked if she could put me in touch with a friend of hers who had adopted one of her pups! YES!!! Here are 2 pics the shelter sent me of some of her babies. Ginger has lots of black spots on her tummy; just on the skin and not on the hair, plus that long black hair on her ears. She LOVES tummy rubs, and can flip over on her back asking for some quicker than you can blink. :-) What is amazing is that the friend in WI who adopted one of the pups also has a Brittany! I'll have to check my other computer to see if her emails and a pic of her dogs is on that one....See MoreDNA Results Are In
Comments (25)I did a Y-DNA 37 markers test at FamilyTreeDNA. There were no big surprises. I had researched my line back to colonial Virginia and found my first ancestor had come to Prince William County, VA in about 1724. He had come from Wales. He was granted a large tract of land (over 500 acres). It was surveyed by a young George Washington. By 1737, he was selling out and removing to the south west part of Virginia to what is now Pittsylvania county where he established a 420 acre plantation. Much later, his first parcel of land back in Prince William Co. became part of the Quantico Marine Corps Base. My parents had said we were Scotch-Irish, but they did not know much about their ancestors except for their grandparents. My genealogy search did find one Scot by the name Hugh McCoy who married an English lady named Jemima Franklin. The ancestor of these Franklin(s) had come from Acton, England. I had not unearthed my Irish. I suspected that my mother's line, Marlow, was rich with Irish, but had met a brick wall in that line after the 2 generations back. I did find that my mother's grandmother was from a Ratliff family who had come from Kentucky to Missouri shortly before the US Civil War. I had not documented a single Irish person, although, there could have been some because the ethnicity of most of my family tree is unknown. I took the DNA test in hopes of finding an Irish match. I struck out. I got only a couple of matches. That was disappointing but not a surprise since my surname is relatively rare. Before public phone searches were tamped down, a white page search found 250 names in the US, 25 of which had the spelling of my name and 200 were an alternate spelling. (Both spellings has been documented in an early family in Illinois.) My DNA test showed 100% European ancestors: Great Britain, 74%; Ireland, 23%; and East Slavic, 3%. Here's the problem: I took the Y-DNA 27 marker test. The Y-DNA is passed from father to son and changes only randomly. Its a good marker for diving back 5 generations. However, it traces only the male line. There could be plenty of Irish hiding in my female line which constitutes 50% of my ethnicity. Also, maybe not many people in my line has taken a DNA test with this particular Company. I need to take another test, mtDNA. The mtDNA is passed by a mother to all her children. However, this won't guarantee a large number of new matches since it depends on how many persons in my line who have taken the mtDNA test....See Morejemdandy
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