MyHeritage or 23andMe?

[Jana]

What about Ancestry? 23andMe still better?

Yes. It's the best on market, plus you will get both haplogroups which other companies don't offer in ancestry package.

[Token]

If you just want the raw data go with MyHeritage, because it is cheaper and tests more SNPs than 23andme. If you want a informative test with nice ancestry estimates and care about uniparentals, 23andme is the way to go.

[Lemgrant]

What about Ancestry? 23andMe still better?

yes, 23andme is way better than ancestrydna. For recent ancestry they are the best, but they don't show the overall admixture (For that, you use Gedmatch to see if you have elevated east asian, south asian, sub saharan etc.)

[vbnetkhio]

Finally ordering a DNA kit. Which one is better?

23andme has the most detailed ancestry estimate. they aim for the ancestry in the last 200-500 years, and give you a breakdown by administrative sub-divisions of each country.
Ancestry's and MyHeritage's estimates give you regions like "East Europe", "West Asia", etc.
MyHeritage is focused on Europe and will have an update soon with more detailed regions. Ancestry is just focused on Americans of west European and African descent and they'll probably never change.

myHeritage has more Europeans in their database, so you'll find more matches all over Europe, if you care about that.
ancestry has the best raw data, 23andme the worst, and myheritage is in the middle, if you care about that.

[Smitty]

Keep in mind, MyHeritage lets you upload your raw data from other companies and access your DNA matches for free. Matty74 clued me in to that, which is a great option if that's something you're interested in.

[Östsvensk]

If you just want the raw data go with MyHeritage, because it is cheaper and tests more SNPs than 23andme. If you want a informative test with nice ancestry estimates and care about uniparentals, 23andme is the way to go.

There was a member on The Apricity who claimed that MyHeritage and FTDNA have lowered their SNPs earlier this year, but I haven't found anything to confirm this. If this is true, then Ancestry currently has the best raw data on the market.

On the other hand, some say that while 23andme tests fewer, they selectively test those of better quality. They will also assign your haplogroups. They currently have a very good holiday deal where you get the health test for just five euros extra (€84 in total).

[Kaspias]

Buy 23andme, dont think much.

[vbnetkhio]

There was a member on The Apricity who claimed that MyHeritage and FTDNA have lowered their SNPs earlier this year, but I haven't found anything to confirm this. If this is true, then Ancestry currently has the best raw data on the market.

On the other hand, some say that while 23andme tests fewer, they selectively test those of better quality. They will also assign your haplogroups. They currently have a very good holiday deal where you get the health test for just five euros extra (€84 in total).

until last year all companies used the Illumina OmniExpress chip. now 23andme, ftdna and myheritage switched to GSA, and ancestry is still on illumina. both chips test 600-700k SNPs, but not the same ones.

ancestry still has 150,000 SNPs which are used in eurogenes calcualtors and Global 25. 23andme has only 50,000, and ftdna and myHeritage have 70,000

this are k36 results of the same person with 23andme v5 and with ancestry:

0	0
0	0
3.71	1.96
0.06	0
0	0
6.67	4.41
0	0
0	0
4.11	3.36
0	0
15.89	14.71
0	0.14
6.68	7.03
13.66	15.05
0	0.91
0	0
0	0
17.86	19.5
0	0
1	0.24
0.78	0
5.69	5.13
6.67	4.58
11.46	15.13
0	0
0	0
0.46	0.58
0	0
0	0
0.58	0.24
0.89	0
0	0
1.46	3.32
0	0
0.09	2.62
2.21	1.07

the overlap is 87.37, so the results with 23andme v5 are ~13% off. which is not that much. so if you are not a dna nerd, just go with 23andme.

[Mr.G]

23andMe, period.

[nittionia]

23andMe, period.

Mhmm tell em girl


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