Can you start with female members of my family?

Can you start with female members of my family?

Alastair Greenshields (Principal) gives expert video advice on: How are the results delivered?; What do I do now?; Will the result be exactly the same for each member of my family? and more...

Mitochondria are indeed found in men and women. So, we receive that from our mothers, but only females can pass it on. So anybody can take a mitochondrial DNA test, but it looks specifically at the pattern of the maternal line. So from you to your mother to her mother and to her mother and so forth.