Is there such a thing as a cheap haplogroup test?

[Albion]

I'am a penny-less student you see,is there any cheap one's, say below £100?

I'm becoming ever more curious as to which I belong to and only have sub-racial associations with certain haplogroups to guestimate at what I could be.

[Loki]

I'am a penny-less student you see,is there any cheap one's, say below £100?

I'm becoming ever more curious as to which I belong to and only have sub-racial associations with certain haplogroups to guestimate at what I could be.

Best thing is to save up and get the whole deal of 23andme. It's not that expensive, and sometimes deals come out.

[hajduk]

Try Igenea
http://www.igenea.com/en/

[Transhumanist]

I know Igenea is associated with FTDNA, but FTDNA's 12 marker tests cost $99. If shipping overseas does not offset the difference, that is the cheaper of the two options.

Every so often FTDNA has promotions. The 12 marker Y-DNA tests, if memory serves me correct, during one particular promotion a few months back, were going for $59 USD. It lasted only a couple of days.

I spend most of my money these days testing Assyrian Y-DNA STR markers. I wish more men would test with FTDNA. Women too. Countless opportunities for discovery. One of the few areas where amateurs are AHEAD of the academics. Case in point, the very recent addition of two new R1b lines on the tree at ISOGG. See R1b1a2a1b L277.1 and R1b1a2a1c L584. These two particular additions were in some part thanks to the testing of Y-STR markers of Armenian and Assyrian men at FTDNA.

I have to admit, of course, you get more "bang for your buck" by testing with 23andMe. Y-DNA and mtDNA resolution, however, is FTDNA's big draw.

[Transhumanist]

Here is a post I made on another forum, alerting folks of the FTDNA promotion I referred to in my post above (now expired). You can get an idea of the promotional prices occasionally offered by FTDNA:

FTDNA DNA Day Promotion, Posted 2011-04-14, 13:55
Hopefully some folks will also take advantage of the offers below:

Quote:
DNA Day is April 15th! Starting at 12:00 PM on April 14th, join the celebration!

New customers:
Y-DNA12……. $59
Y-DNA37……. $129
...mtDNA………. $59
Family Finder… $199
Family Finder + Y-DNA12….. $258
Family Finder + mtDNA…….. $258
Family Finder + mtFullSequence + Y-DNA67 …. $657

Upgrades:
Y-DNA12 add-on ….. $59
Y-DNA12 to 37…….. $69
Y-DNA37 to 67…….. $79
Y-DNA12 to 67…….. $148
mtDNA add-on …….. $59
mtFull Sequence upgrade ….. $199

[Scrapple]

I'am a penny-less student you see,is there any cheap one's, say below £100?

I'm becoming ever more curious as to which I belong to and only have sub-racial associations with certain haplogroups to guestimate at what I could be.

If you can hold out until DNA day next April, 23andme has a sale. This April past you just had to pay the $9 subscription fee a month for 12 months.

[Damião de Góis]

I think 23andme is at 99$, which is 68€ and 60£

[Albion]

That at 23andme sounds quite reasonable for £60 I suppose.

[Frederick]

I would also suggest that you save up for a full thing (Y-DNA, mtDNA, aDNA)
Y-DNA alone is quiet... unsatisfying. Specially the aDNA gives long time fun in all kind of projects that analyse it and tries to find clusters.

Y-DNA: passed from father to son. Its the part of the DNA with the program needed to turn a human embryo (female by default) into a male and to develop the male sex organs.

mtDNA: information for the development of female sex organs. Handed from mother to all children. But only doughters pass it on.

aDNA: programm for the construction of all the body parts, that exist in both sexes and is inheritated from all anchestral lineages.

[Osweo]

Upon receiving haplogroup results;
"Ah, heh, no surprise there, then."

A few days later;
"Fuck."