What is the advantage of testing more than 12-markers?
Only testing 12 markers is not recommended because the conclusions are often wrong. In 21% of cases, a perfect ‘match’ using just 12 markers proves not to be the case when expanded to 25. This gives rise to the potential of people re-writing their family tree based on misleading evidence, when in fact if more markers were used, these errors would not have happened. Also, more markers reduce the number of generations to the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA). If two people match on 25 of 25 markers, the odds are about 1,000,000 to 1 (one million to one) that the two people are related. The ideal process starts with a verification of your own family DNA by having distant male Hunter cousins take at least a 21 to 25 marker DNA test. Click here for more MRCA information.
