- [Jessica] Hello, lovely people.
- [Claudia] Hi.
- Today we're going to do
a DNA test.
- Well, we did the DNA test.
- We already did the DNA test.
- That was great fun.
took about-how long did it take you to like
- (shh)
- well, you know,
we will find out why did it maybe take Jessica so long to
produce two mils of Saliva?
Was it even two?
Was it one?
- I don't know,
that is not indeed what this
intro is meant to be about.
- We're hoping it's gonna tell us things
about like, our like ethnic ancestry.
- Indeed.
Or we also the health component to find
out whether we might have genetic
- When we going to die.
- Yes. The precise date and time.
- I'm a little mad.
- The spoilers.
- I'm apprehensive about the health markers,
to be honest.
- Oh really?
- Yeah.
Maybe it's different because like you already live
with a lot of ailments.
- See, this is hilarious.
- So maybe if you found out something else you'd be like
Ooh it's just one for the list.
- But you know
I might fit in well and I'm like, no, no, no,
no, no on all the forms all the time.
Now I'm gonna be like,
- Oh my God,
- No, but I do know that I have a predisposition.
- In the future. Maybe.
I already know I have two genetic disabilities.
So when we sent off our tests,
it was on exactly the same day,
but Claudia's results came back a full week before mine.
And I was like, oh, maybe they just,
- I'm like
- Can't test my DNA.
There's something real wrong with this one.
- Might not have been to do with that.
Maybe I just had a really efficient lab
- Person.
- Man.
And you had a really efficient, like,
not such an efficient lab man.
- It's very gendered.
- Well, I had to go with this.
I was gonna say you had a, well,
I was actually going to say I had a very
efficient lab man.
And you had a very inefficient lab woman.
And I thought that was even worse.
Cause that's what I was trying to make it a gender fair and
then realized I already made it discriminatory.
So I should have anyway,
(Jessica laughs).
- There was, so I had to make them the same gender.
- Wow.
- This is what went on in my head
and then you still pointed out my flaws.
God, I'd hate to be a politician.
(Jessica laughs)
- Think any of your flaws are genetic
and we'll find out in a minute.
(Jessica Laughs)
- Yes.
Indeed.
Don't blame me, it's my genes.
- So what are we expecting to find out
in these results?
- I mean, I don't think I'm expected
to find out anything I don't know.
- One thing
really.
- Well in terms of the ancestry. I mean like, yeah.
I'm half Chinese and half and my mom's Chinese Malaysian.
- Yeah.
- And I'm half English.
- But Chinese Malaysian ethnically, fully Chinese.
- Well, you see,
I don't
- Wow.
- Cause like I think my mom's family
don't look like mainland Chinese people.
So it's almost like ethnically.
- But when you say mainland Chinese people,
you mean Han Chinese people.
- Yeah.
- Cause you already know that they're
from the Canton region.
- Yeah, exactly.
It could just be that.
I've always, my mom always just said,
oh, it's because we migrated from the Canton region.
So we already look different, but I'm like, yeah.
But your skin's darker.
You know it's things like that.
- I think you're Baba Nyonya.
- Yeah. I've always thought maybe.
And then we went to that house didn't we?
And where is it? Malacca.
- Yes.
- went to the Baba Nyonian house.
Peranakan house.
- Yes.
- Peranakan?
- And, and we were like looking at pictures
and we were like, oh, that woman really looks like mom.
My God, that one really looks like your mom.
That one looks like your mom.
And I was like, maybe my mom was Baba Nyonyian.
- Indeed.
Please explain Baba Nyonian people though.
- Oh God, I don't know.
I'm gonna get it wrong.
Pretty sure we made a video about it.
- We did.
(both laughing)
We did. You can linked up here.
There you go.
- I think it's when the Chinese men
came from Canton region
to work in Malaysia
and they would marry or, you know,
I think assumed they married,
but maybe they just produced offspring
with the local Malay women.
- Yes. Producing families.
- And then Baba Nyonian was then that group of people,
that group of ethnicity, that then was created.
They had their own little traditions
and they brought the Chinese traditions mixed it
one with the Malaysian traditions.
Which I think is kind of almost marks like
in my mind, I'm like,
well then isn't that kind of like the Chinese Malaysian
heritage?
But they would say no, apparently.
So I don't know. It's all been a bit confusing.
- It's all been a bit confusing.
So it's gonna be very exciting.
And the other half of you is.
- Just English.
Although we can trace that back to Normandy,
which is Northern France, but I mean,
France and England are all the same
at one point, anyway, so.
- I mean, I think if we go back to 1066,
we're pushing it.
- I don't know. I always think the more, the better.
You know.
- Yeah. Really mix it up.
- Yeah. When people are like pure this, like,
you know, well, whatever.
Like we're 100% English.
It's like so?
- I mean.
- That's not anything to be proud of.
- Look at the Habsburgs.
- And what do you like,
what do you think you'll find out about yours?
What do you expect the results to be?
- I am expecting my results to say that
I am a hundred percent
Northern European of various description.
- Okay.
- Including Russia.
So my, of my four grandparents,
I would say like two of them are from England,
North England.
I don't think they ever went anywhere else.
- Okay.
So I guess from there.
And the other two.
- You know, genes doesn't work like that.
It's not like where you go
and you can just collect a few
- No. Okay.
Sorry. I mean,
I don't think their ancestors really went anywhere else or
came from anywhere else.
- Okay.
- They were just there.
- They just born and wiggled.
- They were, that was it.
They were there. Okay.
And then my other two grandparents,
one of them was American, but half Irish
and half Swedish,
but American.
In the way that American people.
- So then you might not have, so you
won't have like any,
there won't be any Americans like
American isn't that thing.
- Well, like native American is obviously a thing.
- Well yeah,
- But I don't I'm there would not,
I'm not assuming there will be any
native American in there.
No.
Then my other grandparent was half Swedish
and half Russian, so.
- Okay.
So again, that kind of, you're gonna be all
from one area really.
- Yeah.
- But it'll still be interesting.
- Okay.
No, I want the knife.
- I don't think you are safe to have one,
but also you've got dog right in front of you.
People will always say don't let
Jesse use a knife.
Remember when you had, then they all sent you like three,
we got like three letter owners
in our PO box that year
everyone was like, use this Jessica.
- Jessica you appear very unsafe
with that knife on camera.
I'm like that's right.
Were you cutting towards yourself?
- I'm a skilled professional.
- Okay.
- Welcome to you.
I feel like we're in one of those
weird Utopian Dramas right now.
- Fun, fun.
Hi.
Goodness.
Things that we are in no way familiar with.
- We should be very proficient at this
after the amount of COVID swabs and lateral flows
we've had to do over the last two years.
well how much saliva do they want us to produce?
- Apparently it can tell if you have genetic variants
associated with certain health conditions,
I'm really intrigued if mine is
going to come back and just be
like, no could not read.
- Says no fluid drink for 30 minutes.
And I just had like two Gingers.
You've had diet coke.
(women conversing quietly)
30 minutes have you?
- I have not drank anything in 30 minutes.
And it's honestly been really hard.
- I was saying you're gonna fill there to there.
Oh, okay.
- Yeah don't worry.
There's just this much.
- I Think its still like half the tube of spit
and I was like,
oh my Gosh. I've gotta be so parched.
I'm going.
I mean how much have you got so far?
I'm almost to the line.
You still trying to generate it.
Oh okay.
I'm done.
I'll get my results back while yours still set.
Move your tongue back and forth and stuff.
- God it's dry.
- Yeah cause you had not had a drink in 30 minutes.
- Sh. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.
- Well, this has been lovely darling.
But I don't really wanna sit here whilst
you're just gathering spit for the next 30 minutes.
So, I'm going to love you and leave you.
- Bye.
Okay. Who's going first?
- Probably be the like the most boring.
- Let's do a paper.
- Rock, paper scissors.
- Yes, that's it.
You knew what I meant.
Ready?
- Do we use two hands one hand.
- Okay. One, two, three.
Oh, okay.
We do it on four. Okay.
You saw why I did already.
- Actually, how did I see.
- So. We do it one, one, two, three,
and then release on four.
Okay. One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
This is so predictable.
All right.
One, two, three, four.
Woo! I won.
Okay.
- Oh my God.
- We're gonna start with ancestry.
- Duh duh duh!
Your DNA suggested ancestry is 38.5% Chinese.
- Oh.
- And ties to five other populations.
- Surprising. No, not surprising.
Really? Wait what?
- Wow. Look, it shows that on map.
- No.
- Cause look on the map it's saying I'm,
I've got Europe. That part of me.
- Yeah.
- That Northern European part.
And then I've got this like Southeast Asian part,
which is what exactly what I know.
- Really.
- Interesting.
My mom always said she was from the Canton region,
but it says it's from the Quandong.
- And one of the region.
- Oh right.
- You might want to click on that.
- We found the strongest evidence of the ancestry and
it's following two regions, Guangdong,
and which I don't think Canton exists anymore.
So I think that was, I think that was Canton.
and Shangdong.
- Wait, which generation moved to Malaysia?
- My mother's grandparents, I think.
- Okay. So your great grandparents?
- Yeah. Oh yes.
See look 7% Indonesian, Thai
or Myanmar. 2.4% Vietnamese
and broadly Chinese and Southeast Asian.
What does that even mean?
But it's interesting that my mom was unaware
that she didn't have any historical
like she didn't have any knowledge
of the family line
of anyone having in her family
not being Chinese.
- Yeah.
- And yet that was probably the case.
Maybe they were half Chinese.
- Oh yeah.
- They would, they would like maybe
the person that married into my mom's family
was half Chinese,
half Indonesian or whatever.
- And then you are 50%.
- And then I'm 50%.
- European
- 50% European.
- Oh my gosh. And 1.4% Ashkenazi Jewish.
- 24% is British Irish. And 24% is French German.
That very much suggests that one of my grandparents
was not English. Like British.
- Yeah.
- Like one of them was that's probably the 24%
that was British Irish.
- Yeah.
- And then the 24% was French German.
Oh I know.
My grandmother is like from the East End
and all her family.
I think some of them came from,
I think there's some kind of thing
about being Irish at some point.
- Okay. Well that would be your grandmother.
- I think that's my grandmother's side.
- But then grandfather would be the French German.
- Yeah. Which is where the Fozard name.
They traced it back to Normandy.
- Right.
So your father's father would be the one with.
- French and German ancestry.
- Ancestry. Okay.
Okay. So no massive surprises.
I find that very interesting.
- Yes.
So now I can tell people, well I'm a quarter French
and German.
- Oh I'm actually only a quarter British.
- Only a quarter British. Yes.
- There you go.
Look at that.
- That's true
That's what my genes are saying.
- All right.
Let's find out.
It's very blue.
- You did say you're gonna be from Northern Europe.
Let's have a look.
- I was like, it's gonna be.
- It's gonna be just on that part of the map.
- It's just going to be very white.
- Yeah. You just.
- I am 99.9%
European.
- Yeah.
We kinda knew that.
You're 12% Eastern European.
- Oh.
- That's the Russian part I guess.
- That is yeah. Russian is included.
- Yes.
- Eastern European break it down.
We've got Northwest European,
87.1%,
which is British and Irish 60%.
Makes sense.
- Probably your father's side plus 10% on your
- Irish.
- Irish, which would be my grandmother's.
- Grandmother's side.
- Father.
- Yeah.
- But look even tells me which regions the UK.
- Oh.
I didn't have that bit.
- Well, sorry.
- Not enough people with my genes
have tested obviously.
- Yorkshire and.
- I mean, you knew that didn't you?
Yeah. That's basically,
this is the area of my father's people.
- Yeah, you Northern
you Northerners.
- Although you're probably,
if you're not from the UK looking at this map and being like
how's this Northern.
It appears to be in the center of this island.
- Northern England.
- Is going to be confused by that.
That's Northern England.
- Yes.
- There's a, there's a line.
- Scandinavian.
- And look, this is so bizarre.
- From Jonkoping.
- Jonkoping.
- Jonkoping County.
- It's where my grandfather's father's from.
- Oh, well there you go.
You know exactly.
- It's so precise. That's really quite.
That's really well done.
- Yeah. That is.
- My gosh. I've actually been there.
- Yeah.
- And I've been to the house that my grandfather
lived in while he, when he was a small boy.
- Cool.
- In that area, like it's.
Yeah.
- So you didn't need to do a genetic test to know about it.
- You're only 8.8% Scandinavian.
- Yeah. Wow.
- You thought you would be higher I think. Didn't you?
Cause you're always like, I'm like quarter Swedish.
- I should be quarter Swedish.
- But you're not, you're only 8.8%.
- Both of my grandparents were half Swedish.
Right. Should be half.
- Well, were they.
- Hang on.
- 12.8% Eastern European,
- Eastern European.
- Which is the Russian part.
So actually more Russian than you are Swedish.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- I am more Russian than Swedish.
Okay.
- Was interesting.
So what did we learn?
(both laughing)
- Was it interesting?
We learned the actually only ethnically a quarter British.
- Yes. That was interesting.
- And we learned that I'm boring.
- And I've got a bit of Vietnamese in me.
That's why I like Pho.
- It's fine.
We're not gonna respond to Jessica's joke and be like,
no, Jessica, you're not boring.
No, it's fine.
- No, you're not boring.
- Moving on. Let's go to our health predispositions.
- Yeah. I'll get mine out.
- Get yours out. Okay.
Got starts for the things that we're actually at risk of.
- Age related macular degeneration,
which means like you're gonna lose vision in your eyes as
you get older. Makes sense.
I mean like everyone in my family wears glasses
apart from me.
It's only a matter of time.
- You're just, just like variant
not detected, variant not detected.
You are ridiculously healthy.
- Apart from
- Apparently have the variant for
hereditary hemochromatosis.
Which is the absorption of too much dietary iron.
- Yeah. You've got the opposite to me.
I'm always prone to anemia.
- That's true.
- Your prone of getting iron overload.
I'm gonna apparently between my age now.
- And you're really miffed that it says
typical likelihood, but it says typical likelihood.
It's not like you're anything special.
- Oh, I see.
Like everyone has a likelihood of getting diabetes.
- Yeah. You just have the typical likelihood.
- Oh, okay.
That's okay.
- We'll find out about our Neanderthal amount.
- You have less than 2% Neanderthal.
- I have more Neanderthal DNA than 53% of other customers.
- They found, I had 239 variants that
trace back to Neanderthals.
- I have 241.
I'm more Neanderthal than you.
- What does it say about these things then?
Is it the same as mine? No different.
That's weird.
- I have the variant associated
with not feeling angry
when hungry. That's true.
- Hangry.
- I don't get hangry.
- I get that so much.
- I don't.
- And you really do.
- Well, this reports highlights associations between your
Neanderthal variance and your traits.
Oh yeah.
Cause even though you've got variance,
I've got different variants to you.
- Yes.
- Oh my God. So they, this takes tells you your core,
like caveman instinctive behaviors basically.
I've got one variant associated with being more
likely to have an apple shaped body than
a pear shaped body.
- You have neither.
- I have one a variant that says I'm more likely
to have a fear of public speaking. This is true.
It's very true.
- Wow.
- You're having what's yours say?
- I apparently have a variant dissociated with having a
worse sense of direction.
- The next one says you have two variants associated with
being less likely to have fear of heights.
- I do not have a fear of heights.
- You do not.
- That is indeed true.
- I have one variant associated being a better sprinter than
a distance runner.
- You also have a variant associated with
being less likely to prefer salty foods over sweet.
- No, that's not true.
- I am less likely to have a Hitchhikers thumb.
- What's a Hitchhikers thumb.
Is it straight like a straight thumb?
Is that an angle.
- What is a hitchhiker?
Oh.
- And yous just straight up.
- Yeah.
- What kind of thumb do you have?
- Oh my God.
I have four variants associated with being a better sprinter
than distance runner.
That weirdly, that is true.
- Four?
- Yeah.
- In games at school.
I was much better at sprinting than I was any kind
of distance.
- Apparently I have,
I have one variation of being less like
to have stretch marks.
- Oh.
Apparently I have dandruff
- You have more dandruff.
- But I don't have dandruff.
- It says more likely.
- Oh yeah you don't have stretch marks.
- I don't. And we knew this because like we've always like.
- Because you got pregnant and didn't get stretch marks.
- Yeah. Everyone was always like, oh,
did your mom or sister get stretch marks?
And I was like, no. And they're like, oh,
you probably won't either because it's genetic.
You know how people always throw that around?
Like, oh because it's genetic,
but you don't really know why.
Comes back to Neanderthal days.
That's interesting though. Public speaking, I mean,
that's in my now I can be like, I'm really sorry,
but like we gotta blame the Neanderthal in me.
- So there we go.
We learn many eye-opening things
about ourselves today.
- I mean,
I've like genetically predisposed
that I don't like public speaking.
- Which is very, very true.
I could be a sprinter.
- You could, you also have a lot of dandruff.
- I do not.
(women laughing)
I just could, could, but I don't.
- Yeah.
- You are
French.
- 25% potentially.
French and German.
- Yeah.
- And you are only 8% Swedish.
- I'm kind of Eastern European.
- Kind of Eastern European.
- We can.
- I mean, are any of us, anything really?
- No, no.
- We're all Neanderthals.
- We're the same. They were less than 2%
Neanderthal darling.
- Well, I'm 53% more Neanderthal than.
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But thank you so much for watching us.
If you have enjoyed,
let us know in the comments down below also,
if you found out anything really interesting
from a DNA result. Fascinating.
Absolutely fascinating.
- I think the most exciting things that people find
out are like long loss relative.
- That would be fascinating.
- We didn't go.
- We didn't even look at that.
We didn't go into that bit yet.
Right. We'll do that next.
- We'll do that later.
(women laughing)
- Remember you can follow us on Instagram
@jessieandclaud
and we will see you in our next video.
Bye.
- Bye.
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