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Ashkenazi Jews - Ancestral Origins
The ancient city of Ur, in Mesopotamia, was the place where, according to tradition, Abraham, the chief prophet and first patriarch of the Jews, was born,

Peoples of North Africa - Ancestral origins
The Greeks called the inhabitants of North Africa Libyans. The Romans called them Mauritanians. Nowadays they are known as Amaziges (or Berbers, more

Han and Dai Ethnicity - Ancestral Origins
The Han and Dai ethnic groups are two of the 56 ethnic groups recognized by China. The first one counts about 1.2 billion people (the largest in the world).

Dravidians - Ancestral Origins
In the south of the country of India, there are regions with populations speaking a group of languages called Dravidian. This group of

American Indian - Ancestral Origins
For many years, cinema has brought us closer to knowing and not forgetting aspects of life in the old American West. The first

Mayan and Zapotec - Ancestral Origins
Well known are the pyramids of Egypt, which still stand along the Nile River after so many millennia. However, other cultures

Sports & Genetics: What’s the Relationship?
Did you know that approximately 66% of the variance in elite athletes is explained by genetic factors? Athletes are increasingly seeking the

Andes - Ancestral origins
When the Spaniards arrived in America at the end of the 15th century, they could not have imagined the number of cultures, languages, territories and architecture of the Americas.

Amazon and Caribbean - Ancestral Origins
Amazon According to a 2021 ecology study, only 3% of the earth's surface remains unexplored. Of this percentage, a large part corresponds to

Scandinavian ethnicity - Ancestral origins
Geographically, the Scandinavian peninsula is located in northern Europe and comprises the countries of Norway and Sweden. As a region, Scandinavia refers to

Sarda ethnic group - Ancestral origins
The Sardinian ethnic group is native to the Mediterranean Italian island of Sardinia. The Sardinians maintain a very little modified DNA since the Paleolithic era. This means

Basque Ethnicity - Ancestral Origins
Between 3500 B.C. and 3000 B.C., the Indo-European culture, located between Europe and Asia, had as the backbone of its technology the

Northwest Europe region features
This European region comprises a group of nearby countries such as Belgium, Holland, northern France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is an area

Alopecia Areata
What is alopecia areata? Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks the surface of the skin.

What Are the Different Types of Diabetes?
In our body there is a constant control of the amount of glucose available to our body (blood glucose). This process is known as homeostasis.

Types of vaccines
Vaccines are a current and recurring topic of conversation. However, this is not something new. The origin of vaccines goes back

What is heritability?
We have written this short entry to provide an overview of the concept of heritability and the recent addition to the ADNTRO health report.

Main DNA tests in the market
Differences between different genetic analysis technologies When it comes to genomics, we can find different types of technologies that provide different results. organizing from

ADNTRO – An overview of your journey with us
The reduction in the costs of genomic technologies has facilitated the arrival of genetics to a considerable percentage of the population. We want to dedicate

Theories of evolution throughout history
Throughout history, different theories have been postulated that tried to explain the diversity that exists between species. Let's take a tour of

Trisomies
The genome is the set of genetic instructions that are found in a cell and give rise to biological life. In the case of

Different types of twins
When you have a double pregnancy, two situations can occur: That a double ovulation has occurred during the cycle, and two sperm fertilize those

Golden rice: vitamin A food
Importance of vitamin A Vitamins belong to a group of foods known as micronutrients. Although the prefix “micro” means small, it does not have to

The metabolism of vitamin D
You've most likely heard that vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin. From ADNTRO we want to reveal to you that it is a half truth.

Guidelines in my recommended diet according to my genetics
There are several genes involved in metabolic routes that influence the care of our line: the type of metabolism (thermogenesis), appetite (satiety) and decomposition

Advances in the molecular understanding of aggressive breast cancer
Breast cancer represents the most important neoplasm in women, representing up to 15% of global cancer deaths [Globocan, 2020] Figure 1.

Metabolism types according to your genetics
When we hear about metabolism, we automatically tend to think about issues related to the consumption of energy reserves and being overweight. The truth is that it is a lot

What is the human genome?
The human genome is our genetic information taken as a whole. They are the 3.2 billion "letters" that make up our DNA. From the 22,000 genes

The types of RNA
Both RNA and DNA are part of the group of nucleic acids. Nucleic acids are polymers (substances made up of large molecules) formed

The arrival of genomic medicine thanks to mass sequencing (NGS)
Currently, the technology known as Next Generation Sequencing, or NGS for its acronym in English, Next Generation Sequencing, is considered as the tool

Characteristics of the Perfect Genome
Although on the outside people may seem very different, the truth is that, at the genetic level, the difference between two people is less than 0.1%.

GEDmatch - Platform for finding relatives
It is a free access genetic genealogy platform through which you can search and find relatives in its database.

How to download your RAW file from 23andMe and upload it to ADNTRO?
(All the example is based on 23andme) First, to download your data, access your 23andme account and click on the

Your ancestry composition in a worldwide context
THE RESULTS OF GENETIC COMPOSITION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT - A COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF “TEXAS AT TYLER”. One of the main features

Why some dolphins are pink?
A pink dolphin? Yes, to be more specific, this peculiar pink dolphin that has been spotted in Louisiana is an albino dolphin

Mendel's Laws of Inheritance: A Guide
Mendel's laws, also known as Mendelian genetics, are the basic set of rules about genetic inheritance, i.e. how genes are passed on

What is pharmacogenetics and what are its applications
Genomic medicine is the discipline that studies the changes in our DNA and its association with the susceptibility to developing diseases, infections, congenital malformations, etc.

Nothing endures but change
Genetic predisposition (sometimes also known as genetic susceptibility) is the probability that an individual has to develop a disease due to its component

Benefits of direct-to-consumer genetic testing
The field of genetics is a field that is constantly growing. It was around 1996 when genetics started to come out of the

The importance of genetic diversity
Formerly the upper classes, especially the kings, married each other in order to preserve their "pure" blood, strengthen the line of succession and maintain

The Happy Hormones: A Guide
There are many times when we blame hormones for our emotions and in a way it is so. Hormones are compounds

How common are rare diseases?
As we know, genes contain the information for the manufacture of all the proteins in our body. Among them, there are proteins called ubiquitins

Ayurveda (Part 2)
Ayurveda is the name of the traditional medicine of India. It is considered one of the oldest healing therapies (5000 years) and has as

The importance of sleep
The term sleep refers both to the act of sleeping and to the activity of the mind that takes place during that period of rest.

Biological aging
Biological aging is determined by telomeres. Telomere length varies based on age, genetics (influence of 20%)

Ayurveda (Part 1)
Ayurveda is the name of the traditional medicine of India. It is considered one of the oldest healing therapies (5000 years) and has as

Why do we have our hearts on the left?
As we already know, our body is asymmetrical. Despite having two arms, two feet, two eyes ... there is always one of the two that is

Why do I have delayed onset muscular soreness?
We are going to delve into one of the characteristics that we study in our reports: shoelaces. To this day the

How to interpret the results of SNPedia?
SNPedia is a wiki of genetic variations. Contains information on the effects (phenotype) associated with genetic variations (genotype) allowing quick and easy consultation

Top 10 curiosities about DNA: part II
DNA is one of the most intriguing molecules out there, as it contains all the information necessary to make us who we are. On

How to add the ADNTRO app on your mobile?
At ADNTRO we do not stop working to improve the experience in this unique journey through your DNA, that is why we will soon have

Top 10 Curiosities about DNA: part I
DNA is one of the most intriguing molecules out there, as it contains all the information necessary to make us who we are. Currently

Sport and Genetics
Why do you have three ice creams a day and don't have a gram of fat? How does he manage to jump so much? Why are you recovering so well? Are

Genetics of emotions
In this post you will discover if emotions are inherited, and what are the genes on which happiness depends.

Learn about the interaction between genome and food with ADNTRO
In the last ten years, the number of people with food allergies and intolerances has increased dramatically. This is evident in our life

Genetics and Nutrition
Surely throughout your life someone has told you that you are unique and the truth, I could not be more right. Our DNA plays that role, the role of making us unique, because, although the vast majority of DNA "letters" are the same between different people (99.9% of coincidence)

Haplogroups. The mark of a great journey.
Haplogroups are an important section within the ancestry report, to get an idea of what they are, we can imagine them as the branches of the Homo sapiens family tree, so that each haplogroup includes people with similar genetic profiles who share a common ancestor.

Health and Genetics. Get ahead of the future now.
As you already know, DNA influences many aspects of our body, including health. At ADNTRO we analyze thousands of markers for more than 100 diseases belonging to different body systems or devices.

Understanding your ancestry results
Our ancestry algorithm uses only information from your DNA and that of other people with known genetic ancestry (reference populations). Sometimes,

Pharmacogenetics: Learn how medications affect you.
One of the blocks that we have recently added to our platform is that of pharmacogenetics. It is the biological discipline in charge of studying