Basic Jewish DNA Fingerprint Test
This is a value-priced version of the Jewish DNA Fingerprint Plus. Section by section it tells you how strong your match is to all Jewish population samples available.
Like the Plus family of products, it includes a checklist for four Jewish markers, some of which are associated with Ashkenazi, others with Khazar Jews and Sephardim. We examine standard locations on your chromosomes and end by giving you a spotlight on your Jewish ancestry.
Once you order we send you a sample collection kit the next day, via free FedEx, trackable, or by another method of your choice. Your specimen is analyzed according to 15 standard STR scores, also called CODIS markers.
Which Jewish populations your DNA is compared against
Types of Jews you are compared with range from Hungarian Ashkenazim and Chuetas (Secret Jews) on Majorca to mixed Jewish Caucasians sampled in Israel by Tel-Aviv University and Spanish, Moroccan, Tunisian, Libyan, Persian and other Mizrahi Jews tested by the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain.
- Sephardim in Israel
- Israeli Jews, about half Ashkenazi and half Sephardic or Mizrahi, tested in Israel
- Ashkenazi Jews in Hungary
- Chuetas in Spain, a crypto-Jewish population on the Majorca Islands
What you receive with the Basic Jewish DNA Fingerprint Test
- How strong your match is to all Jewish population samples available, section by section.
- A checklist for the four Jewish markers, some associated with Ashkenazi Jews, others with Khazar Jews and Sephardim.
- The Investigators' conclusion stated up front, summarizing your Jewish results in a sentence.
- Your unique, identifying DNA fingerprint, with lab results showing your 15 standard alleles.
- A 7-page report uploaded to your account as a PDF.
- Open-ended customer service to answer all your questions, Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm Mountain Time.
To accompany your test we recommend the 276-page reference tool Book of Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Surnames, by Judith K. Jarvis, Susan L. Levin and Donald N. Yates.
Is this the right test to start with?
It is, if what you want settled is specifically the Jewish side. This is the value-priced version of the Plus: it tells you how strong your match is to all Jewish population samples available and gives you the four-marker checklist, and it ends there, with a spotlight on your Jewish ancestry.
You are not locked in. Hard copies, upgrades and follow-up testing are available afterwards. And if you already know you want the whole picture from the start, go straight to the Jewish DNA Fingerprint Plus, which examines every line at once, Jewish and non-Jewish.