So, if you think you could be distantly, paternally related to the Iranian Sayyids, you can get your DNA tested and find out. I think it is kind of cool. These tests cost about $100 in the USA. My father was a Naqvi Syed from India, whose family claimed they came from Iran. However, I was not very sure it was true. I got the test done and ended up matching these numbers. By the way, you have to be a male to be tested. So ladies you will have to get your brothers, fathers or paternal uncles or male cousins tested.
I got tested thru an American company. They can test a person for the same markers that Tehran University used for about $100:
Since many world tribal identities (such as Sayyids, Quraish, Jewish Cohen etc) are transmitted thru patrilineal descent, scientists (anthropologists) were looking for a way of of biologically identifying paternal descent in human populations. This can now be done by examining the Y DNA. Unfortunately only sons (not daughters) inherit the Y DNA from their fathers. Therefore, men have to be tested for this particular form of descent.
By the way, female descent can be traced thru a mother’s mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Fortunately both males and females carry their mother’s X chromosome, so both men and women can get tested for this type of descent. So, if you know of any tribes that descend thru the mother then their ancestry can be traced too.
Thanks, that's very helpful information.
Now I have a mean of authenticating the family-tree we have. But actually, I can tell where my family is from by just looking at the mirror.
Prince Abbas,
When I look in the mirror, I see a dark short Indian and not someone whose ancestors came from Iran/ Middle East. What do you see in your mirror?
Dude you need to chill out. There is no reason to put three extra interrogotories at the end of a sentence, it suggests shouting in the internet world. It is a scientific paper and doesnt go into where they came from.
very very interesting. can these tests be done in Pakistan?
I know there have been studies in Pakistan at AQ Khan Labs near Islamabad. However, I am not sure if they are commercially available to individuals in Pakistan. The testing usually costs about US $100 in the USA.