I think they’re bogus, at least the ones they have that you can buy by mail. My cousin had hers and her immediate family done to determine ancestry, and she, her husband and their 3 daughters all had completely different countries of heritage. Now I can understand her and her husband not having the same types, but why would one kid from the same parents show Jewish, Italian, Irish, roots, for example, and the sisters have completely different countries for roots? I heard on the radio a while back, that they’ve tested these over the counter tests on identical triplets, whose information should match, and it doesn’t match. Perhaps the tests that are done for criminal forensics are accurate, but I don’t understand how siblings from the same parents can show different countries of origin.
Also, do those of you who are sent the new colon screening tool by their doctors, realize the test not only examines your stool specimen for cancer, the kit also collects and analyzes your DNA?
Think of it this way (yes I know the number is not right, but it makes the math easier): Your mom has 100 genes and your dad has 100 genes. They will each pass 50 genes on to a child, but they will not be the same 50 genes for each child.