CLEVELAND - Saturday is St. Patrick's Day, a celebration of ancestry. Theres a company based in Ohio that can show you where your DNA comes from. All you need are some cotton swabs and this envelope. <\/p>\n
NewsChannel5 traveled to the Cincinnati area to visit the lab of the DNA Diagnostics Center. With its AncestrybyDNA test, the company can actually tell you your ethnic make-up down to the percentages. <\/p>\n
Dr. Michael Baird is the chief science officer of the company. <\/p>\n
The four broad ethnic groups we're looking at are European, Sub-Saharan African, East Asian, and Indigenous American,\" Baird said. <\/p>\n
Indigenous American means Native American. So, how does the AncestrybyDNA test work? Baird said they look for whats called ancestry informative markers. <\/p>\n
And these are markers in the DNA that have been around for 10,000 years or more. So we look at a battery of those and determine what percentage of those you have in your genome, and we can determine what your ethnicity is, Baird said. <\/p>\n
\"Desperate Housewives\" actress Eva Longoria took a similar test on Dr. Henry Louis gates' PBS program called \"Faces of America.\" She thought the test would show that she was mostly Native American. <\/p>\n
But, her ethnic pie chart showed that she's 70 percent European, 27 percent Native American and three percent African. <\/p>\n
Oprah Winfrey took a DNA ancestry test and it turns out that the queen of talk is 89 percent African, 8 percent Native American and 3 percent East Asian. On \"The George Lopez Show,\" actor and comedian Larry David found out hes 63 percent European and 37 percent Native American. <\/p>\n
Dr. Michael Baird was curious about his ancestry. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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