Ancestry testing can return from 5 to 100 generations and much more
A hospital within the UAE is now providing a check that may assist decide an individual’s ancestry. RAK Hospital stated it’s utilizing the “newest NGS (subsequent era sequencing) know-how” for ancestry testing. It offers an in-depth evaluation of an individual’s ancestors by finding them not solely by nation or continent, however inside a selected geographical location.
Ancestry testing can return from 5 to 100 generations and much more. “You may uncover the place your DNA is from, the migration paths of your ancestors with a easy saliva assortment. The outcomes will provide you with an unprecedented view of your lineage. Connecting you to your historical past, it is going to show you how to discover folks and locations deep in your previous the place no information can take,” the hospital stated in a Press assertion.
In accordance with the hospital’s web site, the check prices Dh1,100.
The hospital’s press launch featured a European lady who just lately took the check. After figuring out her ancestral lineage, she will be able to now “completely relate to her habits, as an example, her liking for Mediterranean meals, the Arabic tradition calling that she may by no means perceive earlier than”.
The web site acknowledged that the ancestry check shouldn’t be meant for scientific or diagnostic use. The uncooked knowledge of any of those checks could not reveal any health-related info.
Dr Raza Siddiqui, government director at RAK Hospital, stated: “We people have at all times remained curious to seek out out about our lineage and it’s certainly a basic human need to wish to know this. Ancestry testing offers perception into the place your ancestors may need lived, how they migrated from Africa to populate the earth tens and even 1000’s of years in the past. We are able to chart a complete map of the early levels of human historical past by rigorously evaluating the DNA of the world inhabitants.
“RAK Hospital may also help you hint your ancestral migration routes and uncover your ethnic origins by way of the novel genomic ancestry program by NGS. This check will reveal genetic points of your deep ancestry. It is possible for you to to study which completely different geographic areas around the globe your ancestors migrated by way of.”
How the check is carried out
Dr Hafiz Ahmad, head of Molecular Division at RAK Hospital, detailed the method:
- Pay on-line and the pattern assortment equipment is couriered to you
- Accumulate your saliva pattern and e-book your pattern assortment service which is obtainable 24×7 and all through the UAE.
- Keep away from consuming or consuming something half-hour previous to pattern assortment to keep away from any discrepancy.
- It could take as much as 4 weeks in your outcomes, which might be despatched through e mail or downloaded by way of RAK Hospital cellular app.
