DNA Day 2025

In this article, we intend to educate you about haplogroups, whilst answering some of the most frequent questions surrounding them.

So you’re probably wondering if you might have some trace of Iberian in your DNA. Find out more here.

The Living DNA team is excited to announce a major expansion of our ancestry report, offering five times the detail in Africa of any other DNA test on the market.

We are excited to announce the arrival of 9 new regions to our European panels and, for the first time ever, the ability to update your ancestry results has been put into the hands of our users.

Discovering that you have Scottish ancestry will open your mind to the mysteries and curiosities of this stunning nation and its people.

Our co-founder, Hannah Nicholson, shares her Living DNA fitness and nutrition results and what they mean to her.

Family Networks is our family matching service - our way of matching you to relatives you might not even know you had!

In this article, we will seek to explain some of the interesting facets of Native American ancestry, as well as discussing where the Native Americans came from and what a DNA kit might teach you about your potential Native American heritage.

In this article, we will seek to explain some of the interesting facets of Irish ancestry, as well as discussing where the Irish came from and what a DNA kit might teach you about your potential Irish heritage.

If you’ve recently become interested in learning about your DNA, then you may be looking at some of the major ancestry lines, trying to figure out who your descendants were. You may question if your ancestors were Scandinavian warriors or not and if so, what that could mean...

Throughout November & December, a number of improvements are being made to your Living DNA portal. These changes have been designed to make the portal easier to use for everyone. Different people will be updated in phased rollouts, at first not all features will be live for everyone, but within the next few weeks they will be.

We are extremely excited to share the progress we have made with our autosomal DNA test for people with Germanic ancestry. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey.

Family Networks allows you to discover genetic relatives and draw new connections in your family research. It works by comparing your DNA to other people in the database that have also chosen to be part of the DNA matching service. All you have to do is opt in!

Neanderthals were our closest relatives, we share 99.7% of their DNA. They lived 200,000 to 30,000 years ago, when they eventually became extinct.