Best Raw Data

[Zmey Gorynych]

I've seen people debate here on the subject of raw data quality/quantity. Is there a significant difference between companies? Which company in your opinion provides the better service: FTDNA, Ancestry, 23andme, MyHeritage, maybe some other company ?

[Leto]

FTDNA, MyHeritage. Ancestry isn't bad either. These three are similar.

[dududud]

23andme V3

[Slavic Italian]

23andme V3

By far the best. Living DNA is by far the worst.

[FilhoV]

To be honest they’re all the same for me as I’ve uploaded all of them to GED match

[Slavic Italian]

To be honest they’re all the same for me as I’ve uploaded all of them to GED match

They are not close to being the same.

[Vasconcelos]

They are not close to being the same.

The results are usually fundamentally similar, passing them to G25 shows that the differences are not very relevant.

[Slavic Italian]

The results are usually fundamentally similar, passing them to G25 shows that the differences are not very relevant.

Do some IBD comparisons and you can clearly see the differences.

[Vasconcelos]

Do some IBD comparisons and you can clearly see the differences.

Do you mind showing us?

[GreentheViper]

They're mostly the same for me. But I can say that LivingDNA is the worst, it gave me such strange results on Gedmatch and can't be used for many of the free calcs.

[Slavic Italian]

Do you mind showing us?

I pretty much do not care to show you because I don't care. In a nutshell all the other services lack the SNPs as the 23&me V3 file. It's not even close. Living DNA is seriously flawed.

[Ayetooey]

FTDNA.

[Zmey Gorynych]

In a nutshell all the other services lack the SNPs as the 23&me V3 file. It's not even close.
I did my test shortly after they introduced the V4 chip which is probably worse than V3.

[Slavic Italian]

I did my test shortly after they introduced the V4 chip which is probably worse than V3.

It's much worst.