Ancestry DNA

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Ancestry is a family history and genealogy website that also provides straight-to-consumer genetic testing. Ancestry DNA mails saliva collection kits, which customers then return and wait for their DNA testing results. Results can then be downloaded.

Cost and availability

The basic service gives you only file of data, plus information on your likely genetic heritage by country / region. There are additional costs to have the data analyzed / interpreted, for example to let you know of genetic illness risk factors, likely medication responses or if you have the MTHFR gene mutation.

Ancestry currently operates in:

See also

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References

  1. "About Ancestry.co.uk". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved November 22, 2018.