Which DNA Test should I take?

[Neman]

Hello everyone, I don't know whether I'm off-topic because I put this question in the specific "Ancestry DNA" area, anyway I'd like to know which is the best DNA Test for ancestry composition.

[Bosniensis]

FTDNA Family Finder + Y37 later BIG-Y

[Gründig]

23andme

[Neman]

Can you also explain the reasons why?

[Dragoon]

You need to read about it more and decide what is more important to you (price, autosomal, health, ydna/mtdna, website safety, privacy, etc).

[Bosniensis]

23andme

FTDNA will give you more precise results, 23andMe won't

FTDNA Gedmatch uses 170k SNP's
23andMe gedmatch uses 55k SNP's

per calculator

23andMe got awesome autosomal results (like the one in my signiture with dots), FTDNA will get you different one (orange one) also in my signiture.

[Gründig]

FTDNA will give you more precise results, 23andMe won't

FTDNA Gedmatch uses 170k SNP's
23andMe gedmatch uses 55k SNP's

per calculator

23andMe got awesome autosomal results (like the one in my signiture with dots), FTDNA will get you different one (orange one) also in my signiture.

23andme was VERY accurate for me. So I'm going to stick with what I said.

I don't base anything off gedmatch. I don't find it the best.

[Kaspias]

Doesn't matter, gedmatch is best.

[Bosniensis]

23andme was VERY accurate for me. So I'm going to stick with what I said.

I don't base anything off gedmatch. I don't find it the best.

He should do both, both are great

[Gründig]

He should do both, both are great

Sure.

He just has to know that reading gedmatch is not the same as reading 23andme/ftdna etc.

[DarkWater]

Go with Ancestry, it has to most ethnicity information and can pinpoint specific migrations and populations, for example it gave me: Germans in the Midwest (Specifically from Northwest Germany and the Netherlands) and then Eastern Kentucky settlers and Early Appalachian settlers, all of which were correct.

They are also doing a big update right now.

At the end of the day, no matter where you take your test you can upload your results to Gedmatch and you can really learn more about your ethnicity there.

There are plenty of other sites you can upload them to as well for ethnic and health info regarding your genes.

[Neman]

Thank you all for your answers! I'll let you know which test I will be doing.

[Thracian]

23andMe.

[Congolese Rice]

i would recommend 23andMe as my AncestryDNA results were pretty shitty lol. then again i am mixed so i dont blame them but still with the reference populations they have i assume they should be able to do a good job lol.

also its taking damn long for them to roll out their update to everybody. either roll it out to everyone or dont at all, damn lmao

[we_are_the_world]

I'd say 23andMe. Ancestry DNA does not do a haplogroup analysis and in FTDNA you need to order that separately. Moreover the 23andMe microarray chip is a customized Global Screening Array, from Illumina. This is done specially to cater to both sets of individuals who typically do DNA testing. One who are strictly interested in Ancestry and the other who use their raw to get more health and lifestyle information.

[Armenian Bishop]

FTDNA Family Finder + Y37 later BIG-Y

FTDNA was terrible for me. There results were incomplete, and it was overpriced. I don't mind paying more, if I get better information, but it was actually inferior to AncestryDNA and 23andMe.

[Armenian Bishop]

I'd say 23andMe. Ancestry DNA does not do a haplogroup analysis and in FTDNA you need to order that separately. Moreover the 23andMe microarray chip is a customized Global Screening Array, from Illumina. This is done specially to cater to both sets of individuals who typically do DNA testing. One who are strictly interested in Ancestry and the other who use their raw to get more health and lifestyle information.

I'd also recommend 23andMe. As already mentioned 23andMe is great for haplogroup information, and it provides a lot of ongoing services at no extra charge, but AncestryDNA is better for building a family tree.

[Richmondbread]

23andme is fraud. They said based on my genes, I can't sing. And I'm a professional musician. So.. I really don't know.

[Impaler]

23andme is fraud. They said based on my genes, I can't sing. And I'm a professional musician. So.. I really don't know.

Are you an opera singer?

[Impaler]

23andme v5 gave me weird results. So I will try FTDNA. I hope will be better.

[Iloko]

23andme is the master race of DNA tests lol

[Logos]

What do you think of livingdna, is it better than 23andme ?

[Logos]

bump

[Logos]

bump

[Slavic Italian]

23andme is the master race of DNA tests lol

Not since they went to the V5 chip.

[Slavic Italian]

Right now Ancestry DNA. If you want your Y Chromosome Family Tree.