Medical Information from DNA

[daveungar]

Thank you



Thank you for your helpful answer. I was out of town for a couple of weeks so I'm a little late with the thank you. I'm generally aware of the limitations of this kind of testing and wouldn't recommend it to most people but I've developed an interest in Genetics...

[daveungar]

I've recently gotten more interested in the medical aspects of DNA. I've done mtDNA, Y-DNA and Family Finder on FTDNA with the understanding that they don't provide any medical information, except that the Full mtDNA does have coding (gene) regions in it. One of my mtDNA matches told me about a woman...

[daveungar]

"In Common" matches and Privacy

In order to use the "In Common" filter you have to assign a relationship to someone; when you do this it generates a request for an acceptance of the assignment with the person that you just assigned. It would be better if FTDNA...

[daveungar]

Here are two items from the Y-DNA FAQ that might help:

If you do not have Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) matches, you may be the first person with your Y-DNA signature (haplotype) in our database. This means that no one else from your lineage has tested. As the database grows, you will continue to

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[daveungar]

Are there 3rd-party tools available for analyzing the Family Finder Raw Data? There are several types of analysis I'd like to perform that the built-in Matches and Chromosome Browser can't do well.

As an example, I have tested several relatives and often get questions from matches asking...

[daveungar]

I believe the FAQ does say that they are updating the reference populations and does a pretty good job of explaining this tool. I can see why it was not useful for the Tick's purposes, but it was actually useful for me.

I got about 85% European (+-13%) and 15% Middle Eastern (+-13%)....

[daveungar]

Update on Ancestral Origins Question

Thank you all for your thoughts. I have one additional piece of information. I logged onto the "Demo" account and the demonstration Ancestral Origins has similar results. It does appear that this demo is derived from ftDNA's founders and...

[daveungar]

2nd that motion

A multi-kit login is badly needed and ultimately promotes sales of kits by making it easier for an interested family member to recruit others to test and more easily analyze the results. A Username is easier to remember than kit numbers. As the first poster suggested a...

[daveungar]

Pads and portables

Ive found I enjoy reading this forum on my iPad. Sometimes I also log into myFtdna and have problems on the pages requiring Flash. Without getting into the computer technology debates, it's clear that many portable devices are using HTML instead of Flash. I hope Ftdna...

[daveungar]

My YDNA Ancestral Origins (Y-67test) has more than 125 matches in all the different levels. There are a couple of 2% matches but almost all of them are less than 1%. I'm surprised that there is not more clustering in one or two areas. I'm an Askenazic Jew so I expect a lot of diversity but this seems...

[daveungar]

I wanted to confirm my reading of these result descriptions. These FAQ items appear to be saying that baseline result probabilities are set out in item #22 and the addition of a common surname increases the odds of a relationship for some of the genetic distances as set out in the next 5 items. So the...

[daveungar]

Thank you

I missed the answer in the FAQ - thank you both for your insights.

[daveungar]

When using the TIP statistics, if I look at the probability for 4 Generations, am I looking at my father through gggrandfather or only to my great grandfather? Does 4 generations mean 4 people or does it mean 5 people comprising 4 generations?

Thank you for helping me with this.

[daveungar]

Follow up to database composition



I'm new to ftdna and just got my Family Finder results. From my matches I assumed a different bias to the database - there were a number of (distant) matches on my father's Eastern European side and few on my mother's colonial American/English...