How much do dna tests cost to find out..........?

Question

what ethnicity you are?

my mother was adopted and i cant believe a fckin word she says(too long of a story.....many many stories) and i dont have a clue who my real father is....not even a name or what he looks like.

Answer 1

i dont think thats possible... lucky you at least you havent beenn told you were made by a rapped...how sad

Answer 2

In the UK the cost is around £180 ( $360 ) but Ancestry.co.uk are offering it at around £60 ( $120 ) for a limited period .

Answer 3

depends on the state...normally around $450

Answer 4

To begin with you will not get your total ethnicity by DNA tests as they now do them.  Most of your DNA is Autosomal. You get it 50-50 from both parents coming down from all your ancestors.  It is the DNA that determines you appearance, your pigmentation, your height, you bone structure etc.

What is now being used is a very minute part of your total ancestry.

Y DNA is passed from father to son only.

Mitochondrial DNA is passed from mother to both sons and daughters, but only the daughters pass it on to their children.

Autosomal DNA is the only DNA that relates a female to her father or anyone to those lines that have married into their direct Y & Mitchondrial lines.

As you go back the number of people you directly descend from pyramids.  Example: If you get back to your 6xgreat grandparents, barring any duplicates, you are directly descended from 510 individuals.  Of those 510 individuals you get your Autosomal DNA from all 510.  However, you get your Y DNA from only 8 and your Mitochondrial DNA from only 8.  Current testing using only Y & Mitochondrial leaves out 494 people back to your 6xgreat grandparents alone.

Y & Mitochondrial go back in a straight line virtually unchanged. That is why it is used in genealogy and you can use it as a tool to match yourself with other family trees.  In doing so, if you are doing research, you will probably discover the spouses and parents of those that married into your direct Y & Mitochondrial lines.  

Autosomal is far more complicated as you can imagine. DNA testing companies are working to use autosomal but it will take some time. They use it now to determine paternity of a female.   With Y & Mitochondrial they will give you your Haplogroup and show the migratory path of people with that particular  DNA back over thousands of years. Genealogy DNA indicates that everyone's DNA began in Africa.

Answer 5

While it can't provide you with your entire family tree or tell you who your ancestors are, DNA testing can:

      Determine if two people are related

      Determine if two people descend from the same ancestor

      Find out if you are related to others with the same surname

      Prove or disprove your family tree research

      Provide clues about your ethnic origin

DNA tests have been around for many years, but it is only recently that the cost of genetic testing has finally come down into the realm of possibility for the average individual interested in tracing their roots. Home DNA test kits can be ordered through the mail or over the Internet at a cost averaging $100-$400 per test. They usually consist of a cheek swab or mouthwash to easily collect a sample of cells from the inside of your mouth. You send back the sample through the mail and within a month or two you receive the results - a series of numbers that represent key chemical "markers" within your DNA. These numbers can then be compared to results from other individuals to help you determine your ancestry.

There are two basic types of DNA tests available for genealogical testing:

mtDNA Tests - Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is contained in the cytoplasm of the cell, rather than the nucleus. This type of DNA is passed by a mother to both male and female offspring without any mixing, so your mtDNA is the same as your mother's mtDNA, which is the same as her mother's mtDNA. mtDNA changes very slowly so it cannot determine close relationships as well as it can determine general relatedness. If two people have an exact match in their mtDNA, then there is a very good chance they share a common maternal ancestor, but it is hard to determine if this is a recent ancestor or one who lived hundreds of years ago. It is important to keep in mind with this test that a male's mtDNA comes only from his mother and is not passed on to his offspring.

Y Line Tests - More recently, the Y chromosome in the nuclear DNA is being used to establish family ties. The Y chromosomal DNA test (usually referred to as Y DNA or Y-Line DNA) is only available for males, since the Y chromosome is only passed down the male line from father to son. Tiny chemical markers on the Y chromosome create a distinctive pattern, known as a haplotype, that distinguishes one male lineage from another. Shared markers can indicate relatedness between two men, though not the exact degree of the relationship. Y chromosome testing is most often used by individuals with the same last name to learn if they share a common ancestor.

I have done quite a bit of research into what DNA tests can and cannot tell you the results are published at my website @

http://www.coolrogue.net/genealogy/dnate...