Paternal DNA Ancestry (male) - Y-SNP

Your male heritage and migration patterns

Explore your male line ancestry from 170,000 years ago to the present day
Find out your paternal migration route from Africa
Your detailed paternal Haplotype
Three times the detail of other Paternal Y-SNP DNA Tests
Beautifully presented ancestry certificate and PHD researched report specific to your DNA.

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Explore your Y-DNA Paternal (Male) Ancestry Today

Trace the origin of the direct paternal line with the most detailed Y-DNA test (father's father's father, etc) Only men carry the Y-chromosome so it is passed only from father to son.

There are 18 major paternal lineages (haplogroup's) that have been identified worldwide.

The Y-SNP test starts by determining which one of the 18 lineages to which you belong and provides the broad geographic region throughout which the lineage is found (Example: Oceania, Africa, Asia, Americas) and then two further tests are carried out to break this down further, something no other test on the market provides.

As an example, where it was once achievable to tell if your Y-chromosome was Haplogroup I (Central European), we're now able to focus the test and determine if your Y-chromosome is in fact sub-haplogroup I1b2 (almost exclusively found in Sardinia).

How much detail does it provide?

The amount of ancestral information detail that can be revealed depends on the results established from testing the DNA. An individual that has a very old DNA lineage can usually be identified to a continental region such as Western Europe. Younger lineages can be identified to more specific regions, such as Southwest North America. Very young Y-chromosome lineages could provide even more detailed, population specific information such as the example above for Sardinia.

The story behind your Y DNA (Male Ancestry)

Your Y-chromosome made you the man you are today. Quite literally. It contains the genetic switch that sent you down the path of turning you into a baby boy. But before it reached you, your Y-chromosome had been on an incredible journey.

Your Y-DNA - 300 million years ago long before humans

Picture yours about 300 million years ago. This is a time long before humans. Even before dinosaurs. Earth was dominated by plants and insects, but this time had also given rise to mammal-like reptiles. This is where your Y-chromosome started. Say hello to your ancestors.

An anomaly, a glitch, a simple genetic hiccup changed an X-chromosome to a Y-chromosome. This new chromosome worked, and so was preserved and passed onto the next generation.

Fast forward to just 5 million years ago where primates are common

Now zoom forward to just 5 million years ago. The mammal-like reptiles have evolved considerably. Primates are now common. These include lemurs, lorises and tarsiers but also monkeys and apes. Humans are part of this last category and 5 million years ago is about the time when we said our evolutionary goodbyes to our primate cousins and followed our own genetic path, taking your Y-chromosome with them.

Now 80,000 years ago humans had been living in East Africa for some time

Humans had been living in East Africa for some time. Roughly 80 thousand years ago, modern man decided to move. First just within Africa, but then from that time to this, man has come to inhabit virtually every part of the globe.

Then each population group made their own unique journey

Each population around the world has their own long journey to tell of. Whether they stayed within Africa or took the path out of Africa, we can now track these movements with the aid of genetics.

Your DNA has changed slightly over the past 80 thousand years. We call these changes SNP's (pronounced 'snips' and short for 'Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms'). Each SNP is a change in the DNA code at one single letter. These changes only happen once in history at any one place along the DNA and can be thought of as a fork in the road.

If one brother had this SNP mutation, and another didn't, the brothers go separate ways. Because each of their sons respective sons will have these different mutations, and all of their descendants, we end up with two large branches of the Y-chromosome tree.

If some people then traveled out of Africa they took this Y-chromosome mutation, this identifying branch with them.

These population groups are divided into Haplogroup's in the present day

If we fast forward to the present day, we now see many of these large branches all around the globe. We call these branches 'haplogroups' and we label them Haplogroup A through to Haplogroup R.

We see Haplogroup A in Africa, Haplogroup D in East Asia, Haplogroup H in India, Haplogroup I in Europe, Haplogroup M in Indonesia and Haplogroup Q in North America. And many others.

This YDNA Test looks at Far more detail than ever before

In our newly developed Y-SNP test we are able to analyze your Y-chromosome at a far more in-depth level than has ever been commercially available; and even more advanced than most research laboratories.

Rather than solely testing for Haplogroup R1b, a haplogroup found in countries along the western coast of Europe (Spain, Portugal, France, England, Scotland etc.) we can now test for subhaplogroups R1b3a, R1b3b, R1b3c etc. two levels below what was previously possibly.

Rather than just testing for Haplogroup O which is found in countries in South-East Asia (Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and China) we can now test two and more levels below what was previously possible so that O2a1, O3d1 and O3e1.

Greater Geographic Breakdown

And with this increase in genetic resolution comes an advance in geographic resolution. So you might find you are in sub-haplogroup I1b2 seen almost exclusively in Sardinia; J2f1 found, but only rarely, in the Balkans and Pakistan; or in E3b3 - common in Israel down to the Horn of Africa and along the south of the Mediterranean,

The following link will take you to our new haplogroup map which shows how all men on the planet are connected via the Y-Chromosome Tree. Each and every man can find where his 300 million year old Y-chromosome fits into this tree structure and see where else on the planet that the same genetic patterns can be seen.

Y-chromosome Inheritance Pattern Pedigree

Squares with yellow dots represent relatives that share the same Y-chromosome. All individuals with a yellow dot will have identical Y-chromosome DNA profiles. For example, if the male in generation one (on top) had a Native American Y-chromosome haplotype, then all the other descendants with a direct male-to-male connection to him would also have the same Native American Y-chromosome haplotype (i.e., their Y-chromosome would be identical).