What is DNA?

Locked inside your DNA is your unique ethnic makeup, the history of your ancestors, and a web of close and distant relatives waiting to be found. From a quick quick swab of your cheek, the test determines your ethnic origins and finds your relatives. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and in almost all other living organisms. Nearly every cell in a person's body has the same DNA, and it is passed down from parents to their children. Whenever organisms reproduce, a portion of their DNA is passed along to their offspring ensuring a certain level of continuity from one generation to the next.

Genetic mapping provides clues about which chromosome contains certain genes and precisely where the gene lies on that specific chromosome. This type of mapping can offer firm evidence that a disease transmitted from parent to child is linked to one or more genes. In genetics, a centimorgan (abbreviated cM), also called a map unit (m.u.), is a unit for measuring genetic linkage. It is defined as the distance between chromosome positions (also termed loci or markers) for which the expected average number of intervening chromosomal crossovers in a single generation is 0.01.

Genetic testing today is increasingly an integral part of the family history and genealogy industry and is often considered an essential part of serious family history research. DNA testing can be useful for answering to questions regarding adoption, illegitimacy, unknown or misattributed parentage, name changes, immigration, and many other instances of difficult-to-trace ancestry.

Vaši predniki so vam in drugim potomcem pustili genetske namige o vaši družinski zgodovini, te namige pa lahko odklenete s testiranjem svoje DNK in DNK dodatnih sorodnikov.

• Odkrijte prej neznane sorodnike prek DNK ujemkov
• Odkrijte etnično in geografsko poreklo svojih prednikov
• Dokažite ali ovrzite sklep, ali ste z drugo osebo povezani prek skupnega prednika
• Prebijte »zide«, na katere ste naleteli med svojo raziskavo družinske zgodovine

DNK testi so uporabni za globinsko ugotavljanje izvora prednikov vaše neposredne očetovske linije (Y-DNA), vaše neposredne materine linije (mtDNA), iskanje sorodnikov v vseh linijah prek Avtosomalna DNK (Family Finder) in izdelave odstotne razčlenitve vaših etničnih korenin.

DNK ni več samo za znanstvenike. [link url ="https://www.myheritage.com/dna" title="Naročite svoj DNK komplet še danes" class="besedilo"] za začetek.