[apaprocki]

There are different ways to help advance science without publishing all of your genetic material. As someone who has published my own mtDNA and my father's mtDNA to the NIH GenBank, I feel like I am meeting science in the middle. The mtDNA alone is not particularly useful for identification, but it does help population geneticists who are at a severe shortage of information for certain groups. My father's mtDNA happens to be in a rare haplogroup that only has 4 public samples.

[toomuchtodo]

How can I go about publishing my own genetic data to the NIH GenBank sequence database? If I've already done genotyping with 23andme, is the raw data acceptable for submission?

[apaprocki]

Sadly, 23andme data will not be enough. If you want to submit mtDNA, you will need the full sequence. I used FTDNA to fully sequence the mtDNA. They give you a link to download the FASTA file after it is done and that file can be prepped to submit after you have it.

I used these instructions: http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/Submission.htm

[toomuchtodo]

Thank you!!

[jacquesm]

That's an excellent approach.