Can a woman be tested and get accurate Y Dna results?

I assume you mean Y chromosome. The only way I think this is possible is if the woman in question is a post op transexual.

I don’t understand the question. Women are XX. No Y in there. Except for women who are genetically men, but identify as women.

I would think so. There are some people with a third set of sex linked chromosomes so why wouldn’t a woman be able to carry some part of a Y chromosome.

As above. Y-DNA testing can only be done on men.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_DNA_test#Y_chromosome_.28Y-DNA.29_testing

That is what I thought. Thanks guys.

By the way- it is in regards to the results of a DNA test which I am now certain was somehow confused with another sample.

@Dog That’s the most likely scenario, either that or contamination. There are guys that are XYY was what I was referring to.

Actually, I think that technically, they can. It is rare, and an abnormality but if interested look up Swyer Syndrome.
It sounds like an argument could be made that, technically, a person with this syndrome is not really female but a male with female characteristics depending on how or what you consider “makes” you male or female,.

XY XXY and XYY are all male. Y makes penises.

X XX… XXXXXX(I think that’s the largest set they ever found in a person) are female. No Y, no penis, not male.

Pretty sure you can be XY and not have a penis. Probably something goes wrong in utero and testosterone does not release as it should. Genetalia can be “mal formed” with any combination of DNA.

@JLeslie, that’s true. People with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome can have an XY genotype but female phenotype.

My bad, look up XY gonadal dysgenesis. Chromosomally male, physically appearing female, can’t experience puberty.

No. A woman (at least a woman who was born a woman) doesn’t have a Y chromosome.

If you have one or more “Y” chromosomes, then you are a biological male.

* A normal male has an “XY” chromosome pair.
* A male with Klinefelter’s Syndrome has “XXY.”
* A male with Supermale Syndrome has “XYY.”

If you have no “Y” chromosomes, then you are a biological female.

* A normal female has an “XX” chromosome pair.
* A female with Turner’s Syndrome has one “X.”
* There are females known as XY-females, but these are really biological males who had suffered an “unfortunate” injury while in the womb or during birth and were raised as females.

There may be other combinations that I am not aware of, but it is the presence of a “Y” chromosome that makes you biological male, and the absence of a “Y” chromosome that makes you biological female.

Of course, you can be biologically male and be anatomically female through surgery, and visa-verse. But you can’t change what you are genetically.