I don't know why peopel do this test whats the benefit of it?

You could find out where your tribe originally came from. Were they part of the Proto-Indo-European speakers? Were they Turks or Huns? East Asian? South Indian? African? etc.

Knowing your genetic history, can also tell you what kind of diseases you are prone to. For instance, maternal lineages like U5 show fast progression of Auto-Immune diseases.

Testing rare lineages, like female Nuristanis helps people understand human migration throughout the eons. If you allow the scientific community access to your genetic genealogy, they can use your data, as they have my own, in understanding for instance, the migration pattern of R1a1.

My goal is to find out how my father's paternal tribe spread around Afghanistan, and how old is their lineage. I also wanted to learn more about my ethnicity, which is Ghilzai Pashtun.

Now that I have a good foundation, I can now begin testing other people from my father's tribe, who don't have a direct link with us, to see how many generations ago our tribe split. Apparently, my dad's tribe split into two geographic regions. One group settled in Maidan Shar, near Kabul, and the other went to Nangrahar. The progenitor is said to be buried in Nangrahar somewhere. After testing, I should be able to find out if we have the same ancestor or not.

The more Pashtuns that contribute, the better understand we have of where we are really from. I really wish for a study specifically of Pashtuns that helps to trace whether we are all related on the tribal tree, or if, for instance, there is really a genetic difference between Baitani, Sarbani, Gharghasht, and Karlani Pashtuns. Maybe they were all related, or maybe some are completely not related at all.

If you are interesting in knowing your genetic genealogy, start off either by going through Family Tree DNA service or through NatGeo.

It's not for everybody. It's also a very expensive hobby.

Q was found in significant frequency in Pashtuns in a study, but it is not 50% as Wikipedia for some reason says it is. The study they cite has only 2%, or 9 out of 49 Pashtuns tested positive for it. Over 50% tested were actually R1a1.

^ Q is found is very low frequency all over and it is really spread out. my subgroup Q1b is even rarer. R1a1 is a dominant haplogroup, I really wonder how though? how did it spread so quickly all over from Europe to India, it's a big mystery

They had chariots and horses.

^ Ahaha.

Interesting results Midnight_Sun!

I'd like to get my mt-dna tested, as my great-grandma from my mom's side is a Nuristani, meaning I have the same mt-dna as her – I find that interesting, as they're a 'rare' people, so to say.

Pashtana Jaan,

I recommend Geno 2.0 since it will identify your maternal and paternal subclade, also your autosomal DNA to see where (geographically) your DNA path is most frequent. On top of that, it will even show how much of your DNA came from extinct hominid speces like Denisovans and Neanderthals.

You can find more info about it here:

http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/n...a-ancestry-kit

If you want a simple mtDNA test, I'd recommend Family Tree's mtFull sequence as this will identify your subclade:

http://www.familytreedna.com/mt-dna-compare.aspx

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Good luck and when you get your results, share them here

Thank you Midnight_Sun for the links you've given me. I think I'll do this soon enough, maybe after a month or two. I'm going to go with the Geno 2.0. I was expecting more than two-hundred dollars for the kit, as you mentioned it was pretty expensive, but it's a fair price to pay to see how hundreds of your ancestors contributed to making you, well – you.

Oh yes, and I'll definitely share my results once I get them!

Great choice!

I have to say that it will not determine your father's paternal lineage, since you're a woman, sorry, for some reason I was thinking of my own results. But if you have your brother, or maternal uncle, you can test them and get paternal ancestry information and also your maternal lineage.