Has anyone ever done ancestry autosomal DNA testing?

I can see that a lot of ethnic and/or racial threads are being made nearly every day on TSR in which people engage in controversial and heated discussions and general social debates.

I consider it both unnecessary and unproductive to be guided by stereotypes and create prescriptive measures on the basis of ethnic identity and/or racial makeup. In short, I am 0% racist, and consider myself to be the citizen of the world

However, despite being only a humble PPE student, I'm really into genetic research of haplogroups and autosomal DNA testing. The 23 chromosome data can reveal fascinating stories of human migration, interaction, mixing, warfare, diseases and so on.

So has anyone here tested their DNA? What were the results?

I'm Finnish and - as you may know - we're very unique in our DNA makeup from the rest of Europe because we originally came from the Ural region and - technically speaking - we used to be Asians

Here's my result:

However, despite being only a humble PPE student, I'm really into genetic research of haplogroups and autosomal DNA testing. The 23 chromosome data can reveal fascinating stories of human migration, interaction, mixing, warfare, diseases and so on.

I can see that a lot of ethnic and/or racial threads are being made nearly every day on TSR in which people engage in controversial and heated discussions and general social debates.

I consider it both unnecessary and unproductive to be guided by stereotypes and create prescriptive measures on the basis of ethnic identity and/or racial makeup. In short, I am 0% racist, and consider myself to be the citizen of the world

However, despite being only a humble PPE student, I'm really into genetic research of haplogroups and autosomal DNA testing. The 23 chromosome data can reveal fascinating stories of human migration, interaction, mixing, warfare, diseases and so on.

So has anyone here tested their DNA? What were the results?

I'm Finnish and - as you may know - we're very unique in our DNA makeup from the rest of Europe because we originally came from the Ural region and - technically speaking - we used to be Asians

Here's my result:

OMG! Are your parents mixed race?

What were your haplogroups?

You better fasten your belt buckle

You better fasten your belt buckle

100% adolf hitler

It's funny you mentioned him because testing his living relatives they found that his Y-DNA haplogroup was E1B1B. E1B1B is associated with Balkans, Italy and the Eastern Horn of Africa. Interestingly, Napoleon had the same paternal haplogroup.

Yael, you're such a Jew.

Aren't these tests really expensive?

Bet you're all still ugly as sin though.

Not really; the most expensive I've seen was 500GBP here at Oxford University by prof. Bryan Sykes (but then again, he's great)

I don't want to make an advertisement for any particular company but you can do it for 125USD (plus some GBP charge for UPS delivery to the US etc) at 23andMe (they have biggest number of samples collected worldwide)