See also DNA Glossary
Testing Companies (also see their information pages)
- Family Tree DNA – http://www.familytreedna.com
also WorldFamilies.net – http://www.worldfamilies.net/ ('Where Genealogy Meets DNA Testing', see especially 'Using FTDNA') - 23 and Me – http://www.23andMe.com (health scan as well as genetic ancestry)
- Ancestry.com – http://dna.ancestry.com
- deCODEme – http://www.decodeme.com/ (primarily genetic health scan, but also genetic ancestry)
- DNA Consultants – http://dnaconsultants.com/
- DNA Heritage – http://www.dnaheritage.com/
- EthnoAncestry – http://www.ethnoancestry.com/ ('deep ancestry' testing & analysis)
- Genebase – http://www.genebase.com/
- Genetrack Biolabs – http://genetrack.com/
- Genetree – http://www.genetree.com/
- Oxford Ancestors – http://www.oxfordancestors.com
Free DNA Databases (for entering and/or comparing DNA test results)
- Mitosearch – http://www.mitosearch.org/ (search for mtDNA matches)
- Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation – http://www.smgf.org/ (SMGF - search y-chromosome or mitochondrial databases)
- Ybase – http://www.ybase.org/ (search by surname or haplotype for y-chromosome matches)
- Yhrd – http://www.yhrd.org/ (y-chromosome haplotype searches)
- Ysearch – http://www.ysearch.org/ (search by y-chromosome genetic test results or by surname)
Further reading
- Autosomal DNA – http://www.smgf.org/education/animations/autosomal.jspx (from SMGF)
- Autosomal DNA at FamilyTreeDNA – http://www.familytreedna.com/faq/answers/default.aspx?faqid=17
- DNA 101 Y-Chromosome testing – http://blairdna.com/dna101.html
- DNA and Family History – http://www.dnaandfamilyhistory.com/
- DNA basics – http://www.contexo.info/DNA_Basics/
- DNA forums – http://dna-forums.org/
- DNA Genealogy mailing list – http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/DNA/GENEALOGY-DNA.html (to discuss DNA results & companies)
- DNA glossary – http://www.dnaheritage.com/glossary.asp (common genetic terms)
- DNA Testing – http://www.buzzle.com/articles/dna-testing/ (articles)
- DNA Tutorials – http://www.genetree.com/tutorials (short online videos)
- DNA Wiki – http://www.dnawiki.wikispot.org/
- Forensic Genealogy – http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/ (includes Most Recent Common Ancestor lookup tables)
- GeneBase BioNet – http://www.genebase.com
- Genetics 101 – https://www.23andme.com/gen101/
- Human Genome Project – http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/info.shtml
- International Society of Genetic Genealogy – http://www.isogg.org/ (includes free monthly electronic newsletter)
- Interpreting Genetic Genealogy results – http://www.familytreedna.com/pdf-docs/Interpreting-Genetic-Genealogy-Results_web_optimized.pdf (eBook)
- Mitochondrial DNA – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA (Wikipedia)
- Mitochondrial variability – http://tinyurl.com/yadktpy
- Mitomap – http://www.mitomap.org/
- Most Recent Common Ancestor – http://en.geneawiki.com/index.php/Most_recent_common_ancestor
- Most Recent Common Ancestor Calculation – http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/ftdna/TMRCA.html
- National Genographic Project – https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/
- Online Journal of Genetics & Genealogy – http://jgg-online.blogspot.com/
- Short Tandem Repeat Internet DNA Database – http://www.cstl.nist.gov/biotech/strbase/index.htm (information about markers & STR database)
- Short Tandem Repeats (STR) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_tandem_repeat (Wikipedia)
- Single-nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism (Wikipedia)
- Surname Projects on Family Tree DNA – http://www.familytreedna.com/projects.aspx
- The Genetic Genealogist Blog (Blaine Bettinger) – http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/ (includes free downloadable eBook)
- Tour of the DNA basics – http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/tour/