Can a blood test provide answersof your birth origins? ie the nationalityof wher

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Can a blood test provide answersof your birth origins? ie the nationalityof where your parents come from?

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4 days ago
The origins of the mother are known, but can the origins of where the childs father comes from, be determined from blood analysis

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The origins of the mother are known, but can the origins of where the childs father comes from, be determined from blood analysis Blood tests are ancient history. DNA is used today. It merely takes a swab of your cheek with something like a q tip to get your DNA.

There has been some ethnic testing with DNA. It is not specific as to a particular nation but whether you have Northern European, Central European, Asian ancestors etc.

Y DNA is passed solely from father to son

Mitochondrial DNA is passed from mother to both sons and daughters but only the daughter passes it on to her children.

Autosomal DNA is what most of your DNA is. You get it 50-50 from both parents. It is the only DNA that can prove paternity of a female. well if you are looking for your real bio parents, whats the point, your mum and dad are the people that have been there forever and a day, looking after you when your ill etc etc. easier than that DNA will tell you much about you're origins It is possible to get details of your biological origins but I don't know if this is done by blood tests or DNA tests or gene tests. I saw this once on the Oprah show and they determined what area of Africa her ancestors came from by doing this test. Check out her site for more info on this if you're interested. I think no.. but try DNA testing... or better still search and ask all the members of your family from both sides of your parents, surely you will know what nationality your family come from... If you mean racial origins then you'd need a DNA test, I don't think it could cover nationality, nope it only tells who your parents are. what if your parents has american blood but they both given birth in a different country like asia so they maybe a japanese citizen or something but they can have dual citizen if their parents has dual citizen. Ancestry through DNA testing usually relys on mitrochondrial DNA which comes through the mother. It does not 'mix' but comes from the mother's mother's mother's... mother. This then is only a single very narrow ancestry, precluding any ancestry off this one line (at 10 generations this is only 1 of over 1000 contributers) This tends to be where most of the ethnic/racial movement research has occured.

Nuclear DNA, which would include the father's contribution, includes contributions from all 1000+ contributers at the 10th generation level. The problem here is that the DNA is so highly mixed that unless ancestry rapidly traces to a population with low ethnic mixing, trying to trace particular ethnicities becomes extremely difficult. For an example, *outwardly* an African American would obviously be of African descent. However, because of many generations of extreme ethnic mixing in the U.S., ones genetics might actually indicate less African than other contributions, and the mix could be very difficult to untangle. The 'best' discovery might be inclusion of certain diseases which tend to be specific to certain races.

If you are a male, your y chromosome yields DMA specifically from your father. I am unaware of much y chromosome ethnic/racial movement research, but some must exist.

Unless you can find some research study that will do it for free, be prepared to fork out some big bucks for the results of such a test. If you are talking about that new DNA test that is suppose to tell you where your orginal ancestors came from then if you know where the orginal mother came from it is safe to say that the orginal father came from the same region as people usually traveled or lived in villages at that time