Price: US$300/€230/£150

We will analyse your Y-DNA (for paternal ancestry) and match it to our database of samples from all over the world.

Cambridge DNA Services will send you your results in the form of a totally individual map, showing where in the world you have matches, to estimate the location of your ancestral origins. The map is digitally printed, in A3 size (40cm X 30cm, that is, 16 by 12 inches), and an ideal present for a friend.

• A digitally printed map containing your DNA profile with your closest genetic matches.
• An explanation, for the layperson, on how to read and understand the map.
• We will inform you whether your Y-type matches the Jewish Cohanim Y chromosome, or the Y-types of Genghis Khan, President Jefferson and other historic personalities.

In over 95% of cases we will find an exact or very close match to your DNA. The older your DNA type is, the more time it will have had to spread. In our experience around 10% of customers will have young DNA types (a few thousand years old) showing a limited spread within a specific geographic region. For other customers who have ancient DNA types (eg 20,000 years old, from the time of the Ice Age, or 30,000 years old, when the Neanderthals were still alive) their matches could be spread widely across an entire continent.

Who should choose the Y-DNA analysis?

Men can choose the Y-DNA to trace their father's ancestry. Women do not have a Y-chromosome. A woman can instead find out about her father's ancestry directly by sampling the father, his brother or his son (who all have the same Y chromosome).