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From: John Paul Bradford <>
Subject: [DNA] Different Companies and Interpreting the Results
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 22:11:44 -0500
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I'm relatively new at this but I am learning a lot from this list. We
used Oxford Ancestors for a test of my father's mtDNA and received some
very nice "frameable" certificates and notification of which of the
seven daughters of Eve he descends from. All quite exciting. From the
articles people have mentioned on this list, I have learned about a much
bigger picture of the clan mothers between mtEve and Sykes' seven
daughters and of many other clan mothers world wide. I have learned how
they use the region from 16001 to 16400 on the OA test to determine
one's clan. With just the 400 letters on the page sent from OA I think I
could tell which daughter my dad descends from without OA telling me.

OA also offers a Y-chromosome service. I assume they will send me a list
of letters again or something similar. They will interpret the results
and place my dad into one of the y-chromosome clans they have named. I
am also interested in their "Are you an Anglo-Saxon/Danish Viking, a
Celt or a Norwegian Viking" service which you can get for an additional
25 pounds. All of these things I can add to my family history. From this
list, however, I have come to realise that their may be better yDNA
tests (in the sense they do more markers) which are considerably
cheaper. Now for my question: Is there enough information on the net for
an amateur like me to take the raw data I might receive from some other
company and determine which of Sykes' yClans my dad might be in and
whether his paternal line is likely to be Celtic, Anglo-Saxon/Danish
Viking or Norwegian Viking OR is this too tough and I need OA to
interpret the results?

Hope this makes some sense.

God Bless

John Paul Bradford

>DNA Heritage
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