Y-DNA and mtDNA tests

**Rosso77** · 08-22-2016, 02:08 PM

Can they be done in any laboratory that offers DNA tests? If so, how to interpret the informations? Do they come "munched" as they do in Ancestry/23andme?

**Argentano** · 08-22-2016, 02:09 PM

Take a look at this thread i made regarding Mtdna in new worlders.

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...th-166-results

IMO mtdna is worthless i wouldn only recommend an autosomal test.

**Rosso77** · 08-22-2016, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by cmv88

Take a look at this thread i made regarding Mtdna in new worlders.

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...th-166-results

IMO mtdna is worthless i wouldn only recommend an autosomal test.

Don't know if I got it (still new to genetics), but I already know I'm at least 90% euro. Just wanted to know my haplogroups and to find out the roots of my paternal family, even though I share most of the genetic traits with my maternal's.

**Argentano** · 08-22-2016, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by Rosso77

Don't know if I got it (still new to genetics), but I already know I'm at least 90% euro. Just wanted to know my haplogroups and to find out the roots of my paternal family, even though I share most of the genetic traits with my maternal's.

The point of the thread is to show mithocondrial dna is just a minuscule part of yourself.

You could be 99% european and have african ydna and amerindian mtdna. I would pay attention to autosomal dna only.