DNA Fingerprint Tests

The report states the Investigators' conclusion to testing up front and summarizes your principal ancestral lines in a sentence or two. It then gives you:

• Your top 50 world populations, including potentially 60 North American Indian tribes, notably Cherokee, as well as Sephardic, Ashkenazi and other Jewish matches, Romani/Gypsy and other exotic groups.
• Your top 20 countries of Europe, including the latest additions, Ukraine and Armenia.
• Your unique, identifying DNA fingerprint, with lab results showing your 15 standard alleles.
• A 7-page report delivered to you as a PDF.
• Open-ended customer service to answer all your questions, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm Mountain Time.

No other companies have data, for instance, for individual countries of Europe, Native American populations or such specific populations as Romani/Gypsies, Cherokee Indians, Melungeons, Israeli Jews, Sephardic Jews, Ukrainian Jews, Majorcan Jews and others.

The database is public and kept up to date. You can check the current list at All Populations.

It is, if what you want is the ancestry itself: the populations you match and the countries of Europe you come from, stated plainly. This is the value-priced version of the Plus, and it is deliberately "just the facts."

You are not locked in. Hard copies, upgrades and follow-up testing are available afterwards. And if you already know you want the ethnic markers as well, go straight to the DNA Fingerprint Plus, which adds the 18 Marker Ethnic Panel, the EURO analysis and your Megapopulations.

The test and ethnic panel confirm any Native American, African, Jewish, European or Asian ancestry. You receive:

• Which countries and ethnic groups your ancestors came from, from all your lines at once.
• Whether your profile contains any of the 18 ethnic markers, and whether you have each one from one parent, from both, or from neither.
• If you are primarily or even part European, your top matches in our exclusive EURO analysis.
• Your Megapopulations, the bottom line on your most important ethnicities.
• A world ancestry map and certificate of testing.

Our Investigators take your DNA results and evaluate the relative strength and weakness of your matches to arrive at an overall picture of your primary ancestries.

The 18 Marker Ethnic Panel checks your lab report for 18 distinctive numerical values scattered through your genetic material. These markers were discovered by DNA Consultants. They have been linked to early human migrations branching out of Africa into Asia, Native America and Europe, as shown on our map.

Your report will tell you if you have the marker from one parent, from both, or from neither. And the fact that you do not have a marker does not necessarily mean that you lack that ancestry: a sibling may have gotten the marker if you failed to do so.

Yes. The DNA Fingerprint Test can be taken by anyone, regardless of gender. This is ideal for women, who cannot otherwise test their father's line without a brother or other male to take the sex-related Y chromosome test.

It is not confined to just your two "outside" male-male or female-female lines, which many believe makes this autosomal test more practical and accurate. That also makes it ideal for situations where relatives are deceased or unknown, as in adoptive families.