My girlfriend is interested in knowing more about her genetic background.
The rub is, she wants to know about her father's ancestry. The official story from her mother is that her father was killed in a car accident in the late 1960's. She has been told by another relative that this story is not true, and that her father is very much alive.
Her mother's side of the family is predominantly Scandinavian, her father is either unknown, or is possibly Filipino with who knows what else.
She isn't necessarily interested in calling out mom and dad on the lie - if it is indeed a lie - but she wants to know where she is from.
Does anyone know if there are DNA tests that can tell something about the paternal line in females? It seems to me that neither Y chromosome or mitochondrial DNA ain't gonna work.
The rub is, she wants to know about her father's ancestry. The official story from her mother is that her father was killed in a car accident in the late 1960's. She has been told by another relative that this story is not true, and that her father is very much alive.
Her mother's side of the family is predominantly Scandinavian, her father is either unknown, or is possibly Filipino with who knows what else.
She isn't necessarily interested in calling out mom and dad on the lie - if it is indeed a lie - but she wants to know where she is from.
Does anyone know if there are DNA tests that can tell something about the paternal line in females? It seems to me that neither Y chromosome or mitochondrial DNA ain't gonna work.
