What Can DNA Test Really Tell Us WITHOUT a family tree? 🌳

[@LindaSchreiber]

I really had to giggle on the question where the white board came out. All of the above!!! is pretty much my father's side :)

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Hey... I know how much people love the whiteboard.

[@chosen2030]

What is the DNA kit that can pinpoint your ancestry in most detail? For example, I am Latino and have taken 2 tests. Disappointingly, all they really tell me is that I'm part European/Iberian and part mesoamerican native, which I already knew. I had really hoped they would be more specific about what tribe and region of Portugal/Spain my ancestors came from.

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Unfortunately, there is no DNA test that can pinpoint your ethnicity. Part of the reason is the small reference populations around the world (explained here kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZS9pXuripxrpJY) and part of it is the nature of genetic inheritance. The best way to understand your DNA results is to build your genetic family tree using DNA Matching kzbin.info/aero/PLcVx-GSCjcdmsw25mbI-wJin_9_9QQUzI. To make sense of the matches, you'll also need to know how to do genealogy research kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKmVhZmcYrdgr6s

[@Solitaryka0s]

I have Ehlers-danlos syndrome also. I saw they mentioned someone from the stream that also has it. I have the hypermobility type and they still haven't identified the chromosomes involved for that particular subtype from 13-20 subtypes currently identified.

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Wow. Genetic syndromes are definitely an interesting conversation. And, one reason for taking a DNA test to be sure.

[@juliehenthorne7281]

If you're lucky conception maybe took place in a good sized rural town. A news story may have been written about the visit. 😆

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Oohh... That's a great tip.

[@zigm7420]

MTHFR = methyltetrahydrate folate reductase (a methylation cycle malfunction)

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Thanks for that. Sorry it still looks like text slang for something else. Yikes!

[@bobhenry-t2k]

They seem to digress alot

[@JosiahFickinger]

Do you think Genetics can try to prove Adam and Eve and the origins of humans?

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Not really. Mitchondrial Eve and Y-DNA Adam didn't live at the same time. Plus, there are historians that think Eve is likely a fictional character. I know I'm opening a can of worms on that. Stay tuned for my video on Feb 9th kzbin.info/www/bejne/qae3n4SBiMaCfaM that touches on Eve's descendants a bit. But the short answer is I don't believe they can.