Can BGA provide more specific information about ancestry?
The test is specifically designed to provide information on the proportions on ancestry on the continental level. In other words, this test allowed us to uncover the levels of Native American, European, and African ancestry, as three component groups. The current BGA test is expanded to provide information on the proportions of ancestry on the continental level for most continents, Native American, Indo-European (which includes European, Middle Eastern and South Asian groups such as Indians), African, but we distinguish ancestries within Asia and the Pacific Rim by adding East Asian, (which includes the Pacific Islanders) as an additional group. Since there will also be interest in defining the levels of ancestry within continents (such as distinguishing Japanese from Chinese, or Northern European from Middle Eastern), we are in the process of developing a new series of Ancestry Informative Markers that will provide more insight into where within a particular continent a personsâ€T anc
• AncestryByDNA™ 1.0 is the first version of the test, and it is specifically designed to provide information on the proportions on ancestry on the continental level. In other words, this test allowed us to uncover the levels of Native American, European, and African ancestry, as three component groups. The current BGA tests that DNAPrint® is offering, AncestryByDNA™ 2.0 and 2.5, are expanded to provide information on the proportions of ancestry on the continental level for most continents, Native American, European (which includes European, Middle Eastern and South Asian groups such as Indians), African, but we distinguish ancestries within Asia and the Pacific Rim by adding East Asian, (which includes the Pacific Islanders) as an additional group. Since there will also be interest in defining the levels of ancestry within continents (such as distinguishing Japanese from Chinese, or Northern European from Middle Eastern), DNAPrint® is in the process of developing a new series of Ances
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- BGA provide more specific information about ancestry?
