A Mom Gave Her Quadruplets DNA Tests To Discover Whether Ancestry Kits Actually Do What They Say

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In 2017 a family’s heritage no longer has to be a mystery. Yes, thanks to advances in the fields of genetics and technology, scientists can test your DNA for a small fee and tell you where you came from. All you have to do, in fact, is send in a sample of your saliva.

Which brings us to this intriguing story. After she’d received some surprising information about her roots, one San Francisco mom’s DNA test led her to conduct an experiment of her own. You see, she wanted to see if these DNA testing kits really worked as promised. And she’d use her own quadruplets to put the accuracy of the results to the test.

It all started when Amy Jones thought it “might be kind of fun” to know where her family came from, she told San Francisco’s KPIX 5. She relied on Ancestry DNA, a website where users create an online account, mail in a test tube full of saliva to be analyzed and then receive their genetic information electronically.

And the results that she received surprised her. “I called my mother, I called my father, and I said, ‘Listen, we’re Irish!” she recalled. “And they said, ‘Are we really?’ And I said, ‘That’s what it says. So, I’m assuming that’s right.’”

But even with the results in front of her, Jones still wasn’t certain that the genetic testing was as accurate as promised. That’s why she devised a scheme to corroborate her DNA results with the help of her four children, who just so happened to be multiples.

Yes, Jones’ four children are quadruplets. In fact, they’re two sets of twins born at the same time: Gabe and Seth are identical twins, while Hugh and Katie are fraternal. Together, they make up the Jones Quad Squad. And it was they who provided four sets of shared DNA that could help determine the accuracy of two sites: Ancestry DNA and 23andMe.

Paying close attention to the finer details, Jones worked with San Francisco news outlet KPIX 5 to make sure that the experiment was as blind as possible. Indeed, together they sent in the children’s DNA samples with different names and ethnicities marked. And they even went so far as to mail them from different cities in order to hide the fact that the samples were from relatives.

But when the Jones family received their results, they were once again surprised by the varying information that they received. That wasn’t due to the identical twins’ tests, however, which returned almost exactly the same results at approximately 71 percent northwestern European and almost 7 percent British and Irish.

Jones was, however, shocked to see that her children were deemed to be even more Irish than she was. Remember, that was the result that led Jones to question her own test in the first place. “They were even higher than I was, that really surprised me,” she said.


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