Which genetic company is the cheapest to take a test and is it worth? Or should I go for 23andme?

[TheMaestro]

Don't go for myHeritage, you will just literally just throw away your money, get some more money and go for 23andMe.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Every commercial ancestry reports are crap. MyHeritage tests 700.000 SNPs, not more not less than much more expensive tests. If you know about genetics and the basics of ADMIXTURE statistical methods, everything you need is your raw data and your brain.

You do not need that many SNPs to begin with, unless your aim is health reports. Most of those SNPs are irrelevant for ancestry, plus 23andMe tests ~650,000, not a big difference. What you could say is that V5 doesn't run as smoothly on Gedmatch but you can always convert it to V3 or upload it to Genesis (plus Gedmatch runs are becoming obsolete, there are better tools nowadays).

I don't feel that MyHeritage is worth the money. No haplogroups. Poor autosomal. A very basic look at your genetic makeup.

[Token]

My 23andme aligns pretty dam well with all the other calculators that use the raw data, so how is it crap?

23andme was made for people too lazy to build a simple family tree. I wonder why people that are only interested on recent ancestry get tested, it is understandable in heavily mixed places like the Americas but in places with a lot of genetic continuity like Europe it doesn't makes any sense, a complete waste of money.

[Token]

You do not need that many SNPs to begin with, unless your aim is health reports. Most of those SNPs are irrelevant for ancestry, plus 23andMe tests ~650,000, not a big difference. What you could say is that V5 doesn't run as smoothly on Gedmatch but you can always convert it to V3 or upload it to Genesis (plus Gedmatch runs are becoming obsolete, there are better tools nowadays).

I don't feel that MyHeritage is worth the money. No haplogroups. Poor autosomal. A very basic look at your genetic makeup.

Your first sentence is completely wrong, the more SNPs the more accurate your ancestry prediction will be, i can enter in details if needed.

Your raw data will not change much from test to test, because they test similar numbers of SNPs. And 'no haplogroups' is incorrect, you can get your Y-DNA using some basic prediction tools because MyHeritage do test some haplotype snps.

[Gründig]

23andme was made for people too lazy to build a simple family tree. I wonder why people that are only interested on recent ancestry get tested, it is understandable in heavily mixed places like the Americas but in places with a lot of genetic continuity like Europe it doesn't makes any sense, a complete waste of money.

Well i do agree taking the test further and doing calculators is a good idea. I just wouldn't consider the test crap because it is giving decent breakdowns of peoples composition, its just not as detailed or specific. So really, it all depends how deep people want to go.

Also family trees on paper do not always align with actual genetic make up. So being able to compare the two is nice.

[nittionia]

(plus Gedmatch runs are becoming obsolete, there are better tools nowadays).

What are the better tools? Like the DIY calculators? Just wondering

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

23andme was made for people too lazy to build a simple family tree. I wonder why people that are only interested on recent ancestry get tested, it is understandable in heavily mixed places like the Americas but in places with a lot of genetic continuity like Europe it doesn't makes any sense, a complete waste of money.

If your aim is to build a family tree then I would say to go for Ancestry DNA instead. MyHeritage only has a 1.5 million database! That's nothing, at least MyHeritage has a database of 10 million samples.

You have to understand though that not everyone is interested in building a family tree, most people are in for genetic makeup.

[Token]

If your aim is to build a family tree then I would say to go for Ancestry DNA instead. MyHeritage only has a 1.5 million database! That's nothing, at least MyHeritage has a database of 10 million samples.

You have to understand though that not everyone is interested in building a family tree, most people are in for genetic makeup.

You understood me wrong. I mean, you can get to know your recent ancestry, even if you are a extremely mixed person, just by going back 3 or 4 generations in your family tree, and it will be much more accurate than any ancestry report out there.

[Kamal900]

You do not need that many SNPs to begin with, unless your aim is health reports. Most of those SNPs are irrelevant for ancestry, plus 23andMe tests ~650,000, not a big difference. What you could say is that V5 doesn't run as smoothly on Gedmatch but you can always convert it to V3 or upload it to Genesis (plus Gedmatch runs are becoming obsolete, there are better tools nowadays).

I don't feel that MyHeritage is worth the money. No haplogroups. Poor autosomal. A very basic look at your genetic makeup.

What about FamilyTreeDNA? I mean, I was satisfied with the results.

[Congolese Rice]

23andme was made for people too lazy to build a simple family tree. I wonder why people that are only interested on recent ancestry get tested, it is understandable in heavily mixed places like the Americas but in places with a lot of genetic continuity like Europe it doesn't makes any sense, a complete waste of money.

lmao, i can tell you from experience that myheritage, DNA.LAND, Gencove, and Geneplaza, and AncestryDNA are all quite shitty. it all depends on HOW you want to use them, i personally only bought a DNA kit to know my ethnic breakdown and percentages, and thus i conclude 23andMe wouldve been the best choice for me.


a close second is probably mygenomebox as honorary mention, its quite good for general breakdowns. however its super fking bad for european ancestry.