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GPS Origins is a revolutionary ancestry DNA test that takes you deep into your family history. Traditionally, DNA ancestry tests provide a report of your 'ethnicity' and locate parts of your DNA in broad continental sweeps, but nothing specific, and at best to the country level. This ancestry test combines the latest genetic research with a new ancestral tracking technique to pinpoint more precisely where your DNA began. It indicates the town or village where groups of your ancestors from different cultures met - building a vibrant picture of the migration journeys that formed your deep genealogical heritage.HOW IT WORKS: GPS Origins is based on a new way of viewing human populations that considers everyone as mixed from different gene pools. This model is fundamentally different from existing approaches, which suggest humans branched from just three or four populations that changed over time. The GPS Origins test analyzes over 800,000 autosomal markers from your DNA, utilizes autosomal DNA, inherited from chromosomes 1-22, which are more sensitive to the genetic signature of your most recent common ancestors, and uses 36 gene pools to trace the origin of your DNA, more than twice the number being used by other methods. PERSONALIZED REPORT: Your personalized report identifies your top three Ancestral Origins (the Gene Pools or ancestral communities that contributed significant portions of your genetic makeup) and shows the percentages of DNA you inherited from each. The report is much more detailed than an estimate of 'ethnicity'. Your report starts with the shared origin of all humankind, and then builds into a vibrant picture of where and how your ancestors lived, and the conditions that led them to migrate. Your report also contains maps illustrating the two most important migration journeys and describes how your ancestors' circumstances changed as they crossed continents to find better lives.