DNA testing for world ethnicity information?

Question

Does anyone know the best place to go, to get a dna test to determine your 'ethnic' make up, like they did in the channel 4 programme 100% English. There are various sites I have found but dont really understand what I am looking for. I dont want results which come through as a big long list of numbers and 'markers', I would like an analysis of the dna to say,, you're this percentage african or this percentage european etc etc and would like it broken down as much as possible.
Has anyone had this done and did they understand the results ok?
Does anyone know whether the tests are accurate or not.
I am located in London if that makes any difference to whats available.
thanks

Answer 1

You are so right. Most of these testing companies give you a hodge podge of complicated numbers and double talk explanations.

I think you saw the AncestryByDNA company in the UK.

It provides you with a simple and objective description of your ancestral origins. The ethnicity test gives you an estimated percentage of ancestry from the four major historical population groups (races).

http://www.dna-bioscience.co.uk/service_ethnicity.shtml

Answer 2

DNA would be efficient on defining ethnicity. "Ethnicity is taken under consideration one of quite a few tactics used to categorise human beings. as a effect of transnational migrations and colonial enlargement, ethnicity is often considered as communities of persons with shared cultural, linguistic, behavioral or non secular features and for that reason are actually not continuously labeled based totally on organic and organic relationships. DNA ancestry contains the learn of the organic and organic relationships between human beings and communities human beings based totally on relatedness and does not evaluate different aspects inclusive of nationality, lifestyle or linguistics; so the classifications of human beings by utilising DNA does not precisely parallel the kind of human beings by utilising the definitions used to define ethnicity."

Answer 3

Has the system been adopted by our government as a basis for issuing British passports. I think not - either because it's too vague, or more likely, if it were a requirement for a passport then most of Britain would be evicted!