These easy-to-use kits have become mainstream and affordable, with a myriad of benefits. With searches for ancestry DNA tests burgeoning, more and more of us across the UK and Ireland are turning to DNA testing companies to fill out the branches of our family trees. Plus, many of these services can also reveal any specific health risks that are worth knowing about — such as genetic variants detected in the genome, and your carrier status for certain inherited conditions.
Then, we factored in cost, ease of use, and how quickly you can expect results back. We also looked at how the results were presented – were they easy to understand? – plus any other additional factors, like their privacy statements, that might make them stand out from the crowd. Read more about how we test/choose here. There are three different types of DNA ancestry test available on the market at present.