Hypothetical DNA Question?

Question

This is a totally hypothetical DNA question to kind of see the range of DNA in ancestry. Say that you found an ancestor from Syria or Jerusalem from about 2000+ years ago, would you still carry that DNA and would it show up in a DNA test and would you still be part Syrian or Israeli genetically?

Answer 1

The only raliable way to test this is to have a Y-DNA test, which looks at the Y chromosome only. This is passed only from father to son, and it changes very little over the generations. If your Semitic ancestors were along you male line, you might find a link there.

The only problem with this is that your test results may go back tens of thousands of years, to a time before any groups we recognize today. Still, you'd have your DNA profile, and you may be able to use that to learn more about more recent ancestors (like 2000 years ago) when the knowledge of what all this DNA genealogy stuff really means is refined and updated.

Answer 2

It's possible

There was a case in England where the DNA obtained from a 9,000 year old human was linked to a living human. Ironically the man lived a half mile from where the ancient remains were found.

However, consider the "I'm descended from Pocahontas" claim.  There's been 12 generations from 1608. Today her "descendants" have 1/4096 of her blood. Then, when you add in the heritage of all the others a person is descended from, her contribution is tiny.

It's very likely most of us could (given intact records) trace our ancestry back to someone living in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.

Answer 3

yes you are a product of your ancestors, there have been many programmes on this subject dealing with the slavery of Africans, and with their particular DNA it has even been possible to find out who are their family today. Its amazing that these cells are inherited, many years later. I suppose there are family members of Jesus Chris and the apostles walking the earth with family members all over world

Answer 4

If you were related to that person even then you probably wouldn't see a genetic resemblence ina DNA test.  2000 years and uncounted amout of generations would literally erase that peice of similar DNA or blend it in with other traits so much it wouldn't carry its uniquness anymore.  Even if you could find that resemblence, you would need supercomputers from the future to uncover it seeing as it's so small. P.S. There's many variables, like how do you know if your other ancestors weren't married to that person. That would significally increase the chances of a resemblence in a DNA test.

Answer 5

Syrians and hebrew people are semitic people not linked directly with indoeuropean groups as the european caucasians ( britons, french, spaniards, germans). if your ancentry is far in time, probably your DNA substract is minnimum in comparison with your most present ancestry ( parents, grand parents).