LivingDNA and 23andMe v4 are very similar, using the same base GSA chip of ~600K SNPs but with their own custom SNPs added for various reasons. Segment matching across those two platforms should be roughly comparable to comparing two Illumina 700K chips and better than comparing say FTDNA vs AncestryDNA v2 or 23andMe v4. The GSA chip is probably the wave of the future; LivingDNA has said that they expected the 700K chip to be phased out at some point, so they chose to use the GSA chip from the get-go. Ann Turner On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Michael Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I was thinking of testing at 23andMe already having AncestryDNA and FTDNA > but will give it a miss now. > > How does LivingDNA compare ? > > How do these new tests perform in the terms of matches to each other with > the same provider or to a similar new type test provider ? > > Mike Fisher > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

How will we know what chip we tested on? I tested my mother last year, but bought myself a kit on Amazon Prime day, which was July 11th. Do we have a date they started using the new chip? Would it matter if the kit came from Amazon? LeeAnn On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Ann Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > LivingDNA and 23andMe v4 are very similar, using the same base GSA chip of > ~600K SNPs but with their own custom SNPs added for various reasons. > Segment matching across those two platforms should be roughly comparable to > comparing two Illumina 700K chips and better than comparing say FTDNA vs > AncestryDNA v2 or 23andMe v4. The GSA chip is probably the wave of the > future; LivingDNA has said that they expected the 700K chip to be phased > out at some point, so they chose to use the GSA chip from the get-go. > > Ann Turner > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Michael Fisher <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I was thinking of testing at 23andMe already having AncestryDNA and FTDNA > > but will give it a miss now. > > > > How does LivingDNA compare ? > > > > How do these new tests perform in the terms of matches to each other with > > the same provider or to a similar new type test provider ? > > > > Mike Fisher > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >