[WhitneyLand]

Can we stop with the unsubstantiated heresay? What condition, what markers, what risk calculation is used?

I recently tried to research these companies to help a friend, and theres a huge amount of innuendo out there along with a lack of detailed and up to date information.

Even the companies seem to be in the dark. One example is I asked FTDNA to explain what the advantages might be to their autosomal only testing vs AncestryDNA's autosomal testing. A "senior" person there essentially said, we have no idea how they conduct autosomal tests so we can't help you.

Off the top of my head every company I can think of goes to great lengths to know the competition, in part to be able to explain their advantages to customers.

But not so for some of these DNA companies.

To be fair, AncestryDNA's web info was so marketing messaged I didn't even bother to ask them the question.

[selimthegrim]

Have you got any opinion's on FTDNA's new myOrigins? I think it might make some things harder to interpret for people without very good genealogical records.