News Alerts

• 05/03/10 - Family Tree DNA launches the Family Finder test using the Affymetrix microarray technology.
• April 20, 2010
  Update on new Family Finder Test: This test is now available to all project members. They can order by using the link in the menu on the left side of the personal page.
• May 5, 2008
  Family Tree DNA completes 2008 Phylogenetic Tree nomenclature updates. See where you now fit into the tree!  
• May 5, 2008
  Researchers led by Dr. Hammer, Family Tree DNA's Chief Scientist, publish the newly updated Y chromosome haplogroup tree in Genome Research.
• April 24, 2008
  Chief mtDNA Scientist Doron Behar and Family Tree DNA mentioned at CNN News about latest Genographic scientific paper.
• February 13, 2007
  Adding members from other labs: At the request of many group administrators, we have agreed to offer a below cost set of tests to allow people that have tested with other labs to get tested with Family Tree DNA and be included in your Surname Project. The new participant will have to fill this LAB CONVERSION FORM and send it back to our office .This offer is valid until 3/31/07.
• November 8, 2006
  SNP Assurance: As announced at the 3rd International Conference on Genetic Genealogy, Family Tree DNA is "raising the bar": if your group has a member for whom we could not predict the haplogroup with 100% confidence, we will run that DNA sample through our Backbone SNP test for free. We will start with batch 173 and up, and this will be done gradually until we have all Haplogroups determined either by an unambiguous prediction or actual test.
• September 29, 2006
  Full mtDNA sequence price reduction: Commemorating the opening of Family Tree DNA's Genomics Research Center in Houston, we are offering reduced prices for the mtDNA Full sequence, SuperDNA and Full Sequence add-ons.
• December 2005

  DEEP CLADE HAPLOGROUP TESTS

  Family Tree DNA is now offering for its customers who already tested their Y-DNA, a series of tests called "Deep Clade tests" which go deeper into different Haplogroups.  The Haplogroup test will test a single SNP, to determine which haplogroup, or major branch of the tree, a male belongs to.  Once your Haplogroup is known, you can then use a Deep Clade Panel to test and identify the other SNP mutations that occurred in order to find your twig on the Y DNA tree.  The SNPs that we test in the Y DNA tree, have been verified by scientific research. These SNPs have been verified to have occurred at a frequency in the male population to identify a branch on the Y DNA tree. The process of verifying the SNP involved testing a statistically relevant population sample of males and determining a corresponding time frame which identifies the SNP as having value. Family Tree DNA provides the most comprehensive Deep Clade Panel available on the market. The first Deep Clade Panels available are for Haplogroups E3b, G, I, J, R1a and R2 (India sub-continent) and R1b, and further tests will be announced in 2006. The value of a Deep Clade Panel test is to identify your twig of the Y DNA tree, and then to use this information to consult the scientific literature to determine the geographic locations identified for your twig. As research progresses, more geographical specificity associated with SNPs will emerge.
  
  Click on the following links to see the branches that we test. To order your test, you need to log into your personal page. The price for the test is only $79, and it comes with a guarantee: if we were wrong in our prediction for the Haplogroup, we will test you for our "Backbone SNP" test at no additional charge until we have your Haplogroup confirmed. If we have a deep clade test in place for the confirmed Haplogroup, we will also test you for that deep SNP at no additional charge.

  Deep Clade for Haplogroup E3b
  Deep Clade for Haplogroup G
  Deep Clade for Haplogroup I
  Deep Clade for Haplogroup J
  Deep Clade for Haplogroup R (R1a branches and R2)
  Deep Clade for Haplogroup R1b