Originally Posted by
Shazou
23andme tends to leave a lot of 'Non-Specific' into your results...like "Non-specific NW Euro", or "Non-specific Euro/E.Asian" etc. What I like about FTDNA is that they assign every portion/piece of your DNA to an ancestral category-component.
But if you don't mind a little non-specific in your results then 23andme is probably still the best single company available overall for most people-especially for newcomers as well; they seem to have very rigorous standards to their testing methodologies and are very Euro-centric in general or so I've heard. They for instance are the best test out there for assigning Iberian ancestry in anyone as far as I'm concerned. They also have a very large forum community on their site where you can discuss DNA, interact, and share ideas/thoughts.
If you're mostly only interested in the Gedmatch calculators apart from the GedrosiaDNA ones(which is optimized for 23andme V4 data), then you're probably best off going with FTDNA or Ancestry.com as 95% of the calculators there are optimized for FTDNA/Ancestry.com raw datas with the higher genotyping rate and all.
