Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Ancestry.com
I have a little hesitancy to recommend this but the price is certainly right! Amazon.com is offering their 33 marker tests for $79 and their 46 marker tests for $149. Here are the markers tested -
As you can see, they count DYS19b and DYS464e & f which rarely show up so you should really count these as 30 and 43 marker tests.
So comparing these with FTDNA (group pricing), here's what we have:
FTDNA 25 markers $124I hesitate not because of the price, which you can judge for yourself, or because of the quality of the testing, which is done by Sorenson Genomics, but only because it is a little more difficult for me to extract and convert your results so that they can be compared with everyone else in the Project. Not a hesitancy you should be concerned with.
Ancestry 30 markers 79
FTDNA 37 markers 149
Ancestry 40 markers 149
If you think you might be interested you can take a look by clicking this line.
posted by langolier at 2:13 PM
1 Comments:
Additionally, Jim, even with the 43 marker test from ancestry.com, they do not have five of the fasted moving markers that FTDNA tests. Those 'missing markers' become pretty crucial when the people are in Haplogroup R1b, especially if the new participant has two miss-matches on the 1-25 panels. I would recommend a 37 marker test at FTDNA for $149. That way a participant can be confident that their test is being compared for all of the relevant markers to peope already tested.
I am not trying to down-grade Ancestry.com's offering. I'm just warning of a situation that 'can' happen to R1b people.
Carol Vass
Kent, WA
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