Several years ago, I read about a "test" of some kind that could give a good idea about where a person's

Question

ancestors lived in percertages. For example, 85% from Western Europe, 10% from Asia, and 5% from Africa. Do you know anything about this? I would like to know.

Answer 1

i think i know what you're talking about... but it's not as much a test about where ancestors lived, but about the number of mutations in the dna.  by looking at the number of mutations one can tell how long ago (to an extent) their ancestors left africa.  it's been used by anthropologists to track migration patters out of africa.  

if you search for out of africa migration theories you should be able to find several sources.

Answer 2

Google " haplogroup ".

Answer 3

This is a site that will sequence your dna and give you the results you are looking for.



http://www.ehealthlabs.com/Ethnicity_DNA...

Answer 4

heres a site that lists the percentage of each Y and Mt chromosone group  around the world

http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mcdonald/worldh...

I have heard of the test that I think you are talking about. If it is the one that i am thinking of what they do is compare a sample of you DNA with the Database that they have and then they give you percentages of where your DNA has the most common markers with with those in the Database.

Answer 5

There are companies that test a person's y-haplogroup (male ancestor;

can only be tested in males), and mt-haplogroup (female ancestor; can

be tested in either gender).

However, you are clearly talking about something else. There is at least

one company that tests various autosomal human genes to determine

how much ancestry from the different macroraces they have. They test

for the genes of 3 macroraces, which are caucasian, asian, and african.

They plot the result as a point on a triangle grid, with each corner

representing a macrorace. If I remember correctly, the test costs about

300 dollars. I don't remember the name of that company though.

Answer 6

Mine lived in a dark damp cave.

Answer 7

Buttermilk...

The only "tests" I have heard of originate from the DNA evidence of "Eve".  Back in 1987, two graduate students of the University of California at Berkley, Rebecca Cann and Mark Stoneking analyzed the mtDNA (a smaller bit of nuclear DNA that is passed to generations by MOTHERS ONLY) and was able to determine that the common maternal ancestor of everyone alive today existed in Africa about 200,000 years ago and they dubbed her "Eve".

From this scientific DNA research, a bioligist from Oxford named Bryan Sykes claimed to have ascertained that there are seven female descendants (or "daughters") of Eve that everyone of European extraction can trace their ancestry.  He gave each of them a name and the "percentage" you mention is based on these 7 "daughters" as follows...

Ursula, the oldest, lived some 45,000 years ago and 11% of today's Europeans (mostly in Scandinavia and England) can trace their lineage back to her.

Xenia lived about 25,000 years ago and is responsible for about 6% of the eastern European population plus some in France and England and about 1% of the American Indians.

Helena, from about 20,000 years ago, is traceable to about 47% of all European stock. There is no known scientific reason why her bloodline was so successful.

Velda lived about 17,000 years ago. Her descendants constitute about 5% of Europeans found mostly in  the western regions and north in Norway.

Tara also lived about 17,000 years ago and can be traced to about 9% of Europeans living in western Mediterranean, western Europe, and especially in western England and Ireland.

Katrine lived about 15,000 years ago. She can be traced to about 6% of the population living throughout the European continent with a high percentage in the Mediterranean.

Finally, there is Jasmine who lived about 10,000 years ago and accounts for about 17% of Europeans especially in central Europe, the Iberian peninsula, Cornwall, Wales and western Scotland.

Sykes offered (for a modest fee and a DNA sample) to research which "daughter" the applicant was descended from.

FYI, Sykes actually found a total of twenty-six "daughters" that can be traced to EVERYONE living today. I have not heard nor read that he made this same offer to trace back the lineage of the other 19 daughters for a "modest" fee as well.