As a human, you are made up of thousands of lineages. As a person of African descent, not all of your lineages are African. You are taking a PatriClan Test to trace the ancestry of ONE of your many lineages, your pate rnal lineage.There is an approximately thirty - five percent (35%) chance that you will receive a non - African result. It may be European, Middle Eastern, Indigenous American or Asian instead of African Yo u must acknowledge the possibility that your MatriClan result may not result in an African result in order for your test to be processed.