As of 2 days ago 23andme announced a return to one tier pricing for the complete edition DNA test. It will now cost $299.00 and there will be no option for the $99.00 up-front cost with a 12 month obligation at $9.00 per month unless you order by 5:00 P.M. Pacific Time today, 10 May 2010:
https://www.23andme.com/store/cart/
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Ancestry launches Beta of DNA Ancestry
Today I received an email from Ancestry announcing the opening of the Beta phase of their autosomal DNA testing program. The URL is http://dna.ancestry.com/ If you already subscribe to Ancestry.com you should receive the same email allowing your to signup for an invitation. The cost is $99.00. At the moment you do not get your raw data file. This may change when the service moves out of Beta. This appears to be in combination with their acquisition of GeneTree and their collaboration with the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation
The Press Release is here .
The Press Release is here .
Thursday, April 19, 2012
DNA day Upgrade sale at FTDNA: One day only!
From FTDNA for Current Group members (Join a surname group to get the discount price):
Well if you haven’t heard it’s again DNA day tomorrow and Family Tree DNA felt that was good enough for us to have a short two day sale.
Nearly the entire offering will be on sale these two days, including upgrades that were not on last year's sale. The sale will begin at 6PM Thursday April 19th and will conclude at 11:59PM on Saturday April 21st.
There will be no need for a coupon - all prices will be automatically adjusted on the website.
We hope that this will give a big boost to your projects!
Login to place your order.
You are welcome to blog about this, report this to your group members, or send an email to your distribution list, but when it’s over, it’s over.
As always, we appreciate your continued support.
Best regards,
Bennett Greenspan
© All Contents Copyright 2001-2012 Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
Well if you haven’t heard it’s again DNA day tomorrow and Family Tree DNA felt that was good enough for us to have a short two day sale.
Nearly the entire offering will be on sale these two days, including upgrades that were not on last year's sale. The sale will begin at 6PM Thursday April 19th and will conclude at 11:59PM on Saturday April 21st.
There will be no need for a coupon - all prices will be automatically adjusted on the website.
We hope that this will give a big boost to your projects!
New
Kits
| Current Group Price | SALE PRICE | |
| Y-DNA 12 | $99 | $59 |
| mtDNA | $99 | $59 |
| Y-DNA 37 | $149 | $129 |
| Y-DNA 67 | $238 | $199 |
| Family Finder | $289 | $199 |
| mtFullSequence (FMS) | $299 | $249 |
| Y-DNA 12 + mtDNA | $179 | $118 |
| FF + Y-DNA 12 | $339 | $258 |
| FF + mtDNA | $339 | $258 |
| FF+ Y-DNA 37 | $438 | $328 |
| FF + mtDNAPlus | $438 | $328 |
| Comprehensive (FF + FMS + Y-DNA 67) | $797 | $657 |
| Upgrades | ||
| Y-DNA 12 | $89 | $59 |
| mtDNA add-on | $89 | $59 |
| Y-DNA 12-37 Marker | $99 | $69 |
| Y-DNA 37-67 Marker | $99 | $79 |
| Y-DNA 12-67 Marker | $199 | $148 |
| mtFullSequence upgrade (HVR1 to Mega) | $269 | $199 |
| mtFullSequence upgrade (HVR2 to Mega) | $269 | $199 |
| mtFullSequence add-on | $289 | $219 |
| Family Finder add-on | $289 | $199 |
You are welcome to blog about this, report this to your group members, or send an email to your distribution list, but when it’s over, it’s over.
As always, we appreciate your continued support.
Best regards,
Bennett Greenspan
© All Contents Copyright 2001-2012 Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.
Sunday, April 01, 2012
New 5th cousin once removed found through FTDNA's Family Finder
Today I looked at my matches on FTDNA's Family Finder autosomal database using the All Matches link to see that I had 293 matches. This was 5 more since last week. Using the Matches In Common I scrolled through the people linked to my confirmed cousins and saw a new one with an ancestor chart. I clicked on the chart link and opened it to 9 generations from the default 4 generations. I saw a name that vaguely rang a bell, Hiram Farris Walker of Lafayette County, Missouri.
I opened my Legacy Family Tree database and found Hiram as a son of Samuel Wilcoxon Walker, a brother of my ancestor Jesse Walker, and a son of Renelder Walker and Mary Wilcoxon. I confirmed the name of Hiram's wife and then checked Census records to confirm the pedigree. After that I contacted the submitter and we have confirmed the relationship. This information adds a relationship to the Boone family to the submitter's line.
We have 6 links in the following chromosomes with the assumption being the large link on chromosome 12 comes either from Renelder Walker, or from his wife, Mary Wilcoxon:
I opened my Legacy Family Tree database and found Hiram as a son of Samuel Wilcoxon Walker, a brother of my ancestor Jesse Walker, and a son of Renelder Walker and Mary Wilcoxon. I confirmed the name of Hiram's wife and then checked Census records to confirm the pedigree. After that I contacted the submitter and we have confirmed the relationship. This information adds a relationship to the Boone family to the submitter's line.
We have 6 links in the following chromosomes with the assumption being the large link on chromosome 12 comes either from Renelder Walker, or from his wife, Mary Wilcoxon:
| 1 | 25060651 | 27093108 | 2.08 | 500 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 70824243 | 73827828 | 1.17 | 600 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 123242334 | 125016973 | 2.15 | 500 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 129643803 | 132242229 | 2.39 | 500 | |||||||||||||
| 12 | 82230023 | 85588625 | 2.09 | 500 | |||||||||||||
| 12 | 107280282 | 124270507 | 27.31 | 4550 |
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Finding Your Roots begins tonight
Dr. Henry Louis Gates' newest genealogy program, Finding Your Roots, begins tonight on PBS in the United States. It is broadcast from 8 until 10 P.M. on the East Coast. Check your PBS guide for local stations and times. This series will make more extensive use of genetics with Y chromosome, autosomal and mitochondrial DNA testing for all of the participants. See the link above for more details.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
US Veterans Administration seeks 1 million DNA samples
From The Baltimore Sun:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-million-veteran-program-20120204,0,1502812.story
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a few good men and women to volunteer for a battle it's waging at home — against disease.
Actually, more than a few are needed. Officials overseeing health care for the nation's veterans are undertaking what may be the largest effort of its kind in the nation, to collect medical records and blood samples from a million former service members for a bank of genetic information.
Vets who would like to volunteer, can go to http://www.research.va.gov/mvp/ for more information or call 866-441-6075.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-million-veteran-program-20120204,0,1502812.story
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a few good men and women to volunteer for a battle it's waging at home — against disease.
Actually, more than a few are needed. Officials overseeing health care for the nation's veterans are undertaking what may be the largest effort of its kind in the nation, to collect medical records and blood samples from a million former service members for a bank of genetic information.
Vets who would like to volunteer, can go to http://www.research.va.gov/mvp/ for more information or call 866-441-6075.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
FTDNA now accepting transfer of 23andme v3 Relative Finder results
The following notice appears on the Products page at http://www.ftdna.com/products.aspx :
23andMe© is a copyrighted trademark of 23andMe, Inc©. Family Tree DNA is not affiliated with 23andMe© in any way.
This option is available for men or women who have Relative Finder results from a third party company that used the Illumina OmniExpress Plus Genotyping BeadChip (this includes tests performed by 23andMe). You may use this option to upload your results to the Family Tree DNA database. This product will provide you with a Family Tree DNA personal page and various features.
ATTENTION: If you are already a Family Tree DNA customer, please log into your personal account to transfer your third party results and avoid creating a duplicate record.
Results file with less than 700,000 SNPs (i.e. 23andMe's V2):
Results file with more than 900,000 SNPs (i.e. 23andMe's V3):
- Is NOT compatible with our Family Finder product. In order to verify the compatibility, you will have to upload your file into our system. Please read our refund policy here, before you proceed and find your record incompatible.
- Includes a one-time use coupon code to purchase our Family Finder product for an additional $109 plus shipping.
*You will be matched with others who have also taken the Family Finder test. However, if you come from an under-represented population, it is possible that you will not find matches right away. Your matches largely depend on how your DNA compares to our database. As our database is constantly growing, we will send you e-mail notifications about any new matches.
- Is compatible with our Family Finder product.
- Includes matches related within about the last 5 generations and predicted relationship ranges.*
- Provides percentages of your ancestral make-up (Native-American, Middle Eastern (including Jewish), African, West and East European).
- Recommended for genealogists.
- Great for confirming close relationships regardless of gender.
- Please note, uploaded files are batch processed once a week. You will be notified by e-mail when your file has been processed.
IMPORTANT: Your results from Family Tree DNA compared to another company's results will be similar, however, they WILL NOT be exact. Due to Family Tree DNA's proprietary algorithm your matches, centimorgan totals, and centimorgan length will vary.
23andMe© is a copyrighted trademark of 23andMe, Inc©. Family Tree DNA is not affiliated with 23andMe© in any way.
Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Variation Provides Evidence for a Recent Common Ancestry between Native Americans and Indigenous Altaians.
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 Jan 24. [Epub ahead of print]
Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Variation Provides Evidence for a Recent Common Ancestry between Native Americans and Indigenous Altaians.
Source
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398, USA.Abstract
The Altai region of southern Siberia has played a critical role in the peopling of northern Asia as an entry point into Siberia and a possible homeland for ancestral Native Americans. It has an old and rich history because humans have inhabited this area since the Paleolithic. Today, the Altai region is home to numerous Turkic-speaking ethnic groups, which have been divided into northern and southern clusters based on linguistic, cultural, and anthropological traits. To untangle Altaian genetic histories, we analyzed mtDNA and Y chromosome variation in northern and southern Altaian populations. All mtDNAs were assayed by PCR-RFLP analysis and control region sequencing, and the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosome was scored for more than 100 biallelic markers and 17 Y-STRs. Based on these data, we noted differences in the origin and population history of Altaian ethnic groups, with northern Altaians appearing more like Yeniseian, Ugric, and Samoyedic speakers to the north, and southern Altaians having greater affinities to other Turkic speaking populations of southern Siberia and Central Asia. Moreover, high-resolution analysis of Y chromosome haplogroup Q has allowed us to reshape the phylogeny of this branch, making connections between populations of the New World and Old World more apparent and demonstrating that southern Altaians and Native Americans share a recent common ancestor. These results greatly enhance our understanding of the peopling of Siberia and the Americas.**Emphasis added by SCP.
Copyright © 2012 The American Society of Human Genetics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- PMID:
- 22281367
- [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
FTDNA Extend Holiday Sale through 7 Jan 2012
Products and Promotions
Holiday Promotion extended to January 7, 2012
Due to popular demand Family Tree DNA extended its Holiday Promotion, which encompasses the widest rage of tests, from new kits to upgrades. Here are the details of the promotion:| New Kits | Current Group Price | SALE PRICE |
| Y-DNA 37 | $149 | $119 |
| Y-DNA 67 | $239 | $199 |
| mtFullSequence | $299 | $239 |
| SuperDNA (Y-DNA67 and FMS) | $518 | $438 |
| Family Finder | $289 | $199 |
| Family Finder + mtPlus | $438 | $318 |
| Family Finder + FMS | $559 | $439 |
| Family Finder+ Y-DNA37 | $438 | $318 |
| Comprehensive (FF + FMS + Y-67) | $797 | $627 |
| Upgrades | ||
| 12-25 Marker | $49 | $35 |
| 12-37 Marker | $99 | $69 |
| 12-67 Marker | $189 | $148 |
| 25-37 Marker | $49 | $35 |
| 25-67 Marker | $148 | $114 |
| 37-67 Marker | $99 | $79 |
| Family Finder | $289 | $199 |
| mtHVR1toMega | $269 | $229 |
| mtHVR2toMega | $239 | $209 |
IMPORTANT: This promotion will not be extended beyond January 7, 2012.
Order An Upgrade
Order A New Kit
Thursday, November 24, 2011
National Geographic Explorer: How to build and Ancient Man
CeCe Moore, at Your Genetic Genealogist, has a post on the recent National Geographic Explorer program on the reconstruction of the genetics of a Saqqaq male from Greenland, "How to Build an Ancient Man" This is a followup to the scientific article abstracted here: Gilbert et al., "Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA Genome Reveals Matrilineal Discontinuity in Greenland", Science 27 June 2008: 1787-1789. DOI:10.1126/science.1159750 . The article implies multiple entries into the Americas from Asia.
See the facial reconstruction of Inuq an ancient Saqqaq male from Greenland.
See the facial reconstruction of Inuq an ancient Saqqaq male from Greenland.
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