Have you gotten your DNA done?

[carnation]

My husband and I sent samples of our DNA to a scientific firm in Florida to determine our racial mixtures. The website, www.ancestrybyDNA.com explains it a lot better than I can.

Today we got our results and whoa, it's a good thing that we're both degreed in science because that stuff is TECHNICAL. You are given your percentage of mixture along with chromosome maps and tons of other material. Your racial mixture has to be fairly recent to show up--anyway, we found that:

My husband is European-Native American!
I am European-African-Native American!

Hispanic isn't reported since that's not a race but a mixture of races...anyway, has anyone else had their DNA done?

[Lady Pi Phi]

$219.00 USD!!!

I don't think I'll be doing that anytime soon.

[PhiPsiRuss]

I'm Martian-American. Its true.

[Kevin]

My grandmother did our geneology WAAAY back.

If I cared, I'd just crack those books she wrote.

[TheEpitome1920]

There is a company that does DNA testing for African Americans interested in tracing their roots in Africa. It's pretty expensive and very hard to understand.

[carnation]

The DNA company told me that every African-American (not African only) they've tested has been at least 20% white.

[TheEpitome1920]

Yeah I remember him saying something like that. It doesn't suprise me.

[honeychile]

I haven't had mine done yet, but due to certain "foster cousins", I may be getting it done soon. Did they just do the swab?

As for the African-American database, I think that's a GREAT idea! I have been totally sold on the Sally Hemings as the mother of several of Thomas Jefferson's children since I first learned of it, and I'd like to see people such as they get their due respect. The whole slavery era was an abomination in our country, and the least that can be done is to help those interested in establishing their roots.

Also, I get several genealogical publications, and the most recent has four different families doing a DNA project, to keep the lineages straight. I think that's a very good step in the right direction!

[TheEpitome1920]

Dec. 28 — Wayne Joseph, the principal of a big suburban high school in southern California, had an unequivocal sense of his black heritage, having written extensively about race in America.

But after seeing a TV story last April about a Florida company, DNA Print Genomics, which marketed an ancestry-by-DNA test, he began to wonder exactly how much of him was African, how much wasn't, and what else there might be in his genes.

"I sent away for their kit and received the kit, happened to swab both sides of my cheek and sent the swabs in," Joseph said.

A few weeks later, the results arrived at his comfortable Claremont, Calif., home.

"I just glanced at it, just a cursory glance initially — didn't really notice it much," Joseph said. "Then, I went back to it, because all of a sudden it hit me exactly what I had read. And it read, 57 percent Indo-European, 39 percent Native American, 4 percent East Asian and 0 percent African.

After a lifetime as a black man, Wayne Joseph discovered he probably isn't black at all.


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[cntryZTA5]

Originally posted by TheEpitome1920
Dec. 28 — Wayne Joseph, the principal of a big suburban high school in southern California, had an unequivocal sense of his black heritage, having written extensively about race in America.

But after seeing a TV story last April about a Florida company, DNA Print Genomics, which marketed an ancestry-by-DNA test, he began to wonder exactly how much of him was African, how much wasn't, and what else there might be in his genes.

"I sent away for their kit and received the kit, happened to swab both sides of my cheek and sent the swabs in," Joseph said.

A few weeks later, the results arrived at his comfortable Claremont, Calif., home.

"I just glanced at it, just a cursory glance initially — didn't really notice it much," Joseph said. "Then, I went back to it, because all of a sudden it hit me exactly what I had read. And it read, 57 percent Indo-European, 39 percent Native American, 4 percent East Asian and 0 percent African.

After a lifetime as a black man, Wayne Joseph discovered he probably isn't black at all.


Article

Just an aside....Wayne Joseph is the principal at Chino High School, where I substitute taught for 2 years!

[angelic1]

I have been curious about this more and more, ever since my boyfriend's uncle did this. He did it through the company Family Tree DNA and I guess they are participating in the National Geographic project.

I have looked at the websites on this and I am confused on the test I should take.

First off, the reason I am interested is this... my dad was adopted and we have no real clue about what ancestory he is. My grandparents adopted him in DC from an orphanage and have some info on him, but he has never wanted to know his parents. I understand this, but would like to know where they were from at least. Whenever people meet me they are always curious. I have gotten spanish, italian (when I went to Europe people would speak italian to me randomly), and greek (because of my father's looks).

So what test would show from me his daughter my father's lineage?

[Glitter650]

I've had a DNA chromosome map done by the Doc. It was for medical purposes only though... to test for something specific.. so I didn't get any other cool info from it.

[CutiePie2000]

Questions regarding identical twins (i.e. where there was one zygote but it split in 2 resulting in 2 babies)....would identical twins have identical DNA? Just wondering. Paging the GC scientists...

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

Questions regarding identical twins (i.e. where there was one zygote but it split in 2 resulting in 2 babies)....would identical twins have identical DNA? Just wondering. Paging the GC scientists...

Sure do. DNA (genotype) is the same. One of my students asked the same question today.

[breathesgelatin]

Didn't Oprah get this done? If I remember correctly, she discovered she has heritage with the Zulu tribe in South Africa, and that's part of the reason she has been so active with educational charities in that region.