Discover your genetic origin: step-by-step guide
Have you ever wondered where your features, complexion, or certain health tendencies that run in your family really come from? Oral history has its limits, and traditional family trees only go so far. Today, DNA testing allows us to go much further: accessing specific information about your […]
The Best DNA Test
What is a DNA Test and how does it work? DNA tests have become an essential tool to know our roots, our predisposition to certain diseases and to receive personalized nutrition and lifestyle recommendations. In this article, we compare the best DNA tests available on the market. [...]
Neanderthal legacy lives on in our genetics
In the annals of prehistory, Neanderthals emerge as fascinating figures, our evolutionary cousins who shared the Earth with Homo sapiens. Their history is marked by intrigue and revealing scientific discoveries. In this post we will talk about who the Neanderthals were, how they lived and the genetic heritage they left in us. Physical characteristics and [...]
ADNTRO 2022 - Summary of your journey with us
Following the same line of 2021 (summary of 2021), we want to dedicate a small space of our blog to thank you for the trust you have placed in ADNTRO and give you a brief tour of your journey with us. Here is a list of the most important updates that we have been releasing during the last year. [...]
Iberian - Ancestral origins
Introduction to the Iberian ethnic group The concept "Iberian" comes from the Greek word Ibero, a word with a somewhat uncertain origin: the main thesis points out its relation to an Eastern Iberia (located at the other end of the known world for the Greeks, in the Caucasus) and that it was applied to the peninsula in reference to the other [...]
Sephardic jews - Ancestral Origins
The Jewish community has been formally expelled from many places throughout its history. The first of these times was in 49 A.D. when, by decree, the Jews were expelled from Rome. It took many centuries for the Jews to be expelled again from Rome.
Ashkenazi Jews - Ancestral Origins
The ancient city of Ur, in Mesopotamia, was the place where, according to tradition, Abraham, the main prophet and first patriarch of the Jews, was born, as well as the first person to whom Yahweh appeared. From this first monotheistic religion, an ethnic division of about 70 groups can be made, among which [...]
Peoples of North Africa - Ancestral origins
The Greeks called the inhabitants of North Africa Libyans. The Romans called them Mauritanians. Nowadays, a group of people belonging to a group of North African ethnic groups is known as Amaziges (or Berbers, more in disuse). Due to an adaptation of Spanish, this area is also known as Maghreb. [...]
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 1200 million people (87.7% of the country) and the second one counts about one million people, which is less than 0.1% of the total population of China. The Han ethnic group is not only [....]
ADNTRO 2021 - Summary of your journey with us
We would like to dedicate this small space to thank you for choosing us to navigate your genetic code and give you a brief tour of your DNATRO journey with the most important updates that we have been releasing over the last year, in all areas of our report. Remember, "Your DNA doesn't change, but progress [...]".