“Which DNA test should I get?” is a common question posed to genealogists. This session will explain the three major types of DNA tests with a focus on Y-DNA. Costs and benefits of the various Y-DNA test options will be weighed. Most importantly, the Big Y-700 DNA test will be examined in terms of costs, markers tested, genealogy case studies, and privacy concerns.
Here is a list of references, resources, and additional information relating to the presentation for Why get the Big Y DNA Test?:
Web References
- Wikipedia, List of countries by population (United Nations).
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=879939654 - Wikipedia, Countries of the United Kingdom by population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=869454643 - Wikipedia, World Map of Y-DNA Haplogroups
Image by Chakazul 2013 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:World_Map_of_Y-DNA_Haplogroups.png&oldid=333927556 - Family Tree DNA (2019), Big Y Results Matching in FTDNA Learning Center. Retrieved 11:00, January 30, 2019.
https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/y-dna-testing/big-y/big-y/ - Family Tree DNA, [Big Y-700] Big Y Whitepaper by Davis, Sager, et al. (22 Mar 2019)
https://blog.familytreedna.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/big-y-700-white-paper_compressed.pdf - Family Tree DNA, [Original] Big Y Whitepaper (August 2014)
https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BIG_Y_WhitePager.pdf - Family Tree DNA (2019), Y-DNA Haplotree public tool.
https://www.familytreedna.com/public/y-dna-haplotree - Thomas Krahn’s YSeq Laboratory for STR, SNP, and WGS testing
https://www.yseq.net - Full Genomes Corp for lowest cost sequencing (performed in China)
https://www.fullgenomes.com - YFull DNA Interpretation Services (Russia)
https://www.yfull.com - Michael F Hammer et al as the Y Chromosome Consortium in “A Nomenclature System for the Tree of Human Y-Chromosomal Binary Haplogroups” in Genome Research journal 12:339-348 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, www.genome.org.
https://genome.cshlp.org/content/12/2/339.full - B. Charlesworth (2003), The organization and evolution of the human Y chromosome, in Genome Biology, 4:226, BioMed Central Ltd.
https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2003-4-9-226 - Khan Academy, Building a phylogenetic tree (2015).
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/her/tree-of-life/a/building-an-evolutionary-tree - Genealogy of Jesus of Nazareth, The Bible, Book of Mathew, Chapter 1, published by The International Bible Society.
https://www.biblica.com/bible/niv/matthew/1/ - GeneticHomeland.com (2019), DNA Marker Index
https://www.genetichomeland.com/welcome/dnamarkerindex.asp - GeneticHomeland.com (2019), DNA Ancestral Pedigree Tree.
https://www.genetichomeland.com/welcome/dnapedigree.asp - Skaletsky et al (2003), The male-specific region of the Y chromosome is a mosaic of discreet sequence classes, Nature, Vol 423,
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01722 - Family Tree DNA, Why Family Tree DNA?, About The Family Tree DNA Database,
https://www.familytreedna.com/why-ftdna.aspx -
Irish Mapping DNA Project at Family Tree DNA, Project Statistics,
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/irishmapping/about/project-statistics - International Society of Genetic Genealogy, Wiki, Y-DNA SNP testing chart
https://isogg.org/wiki/Y-DNA_SNP_testing_chart - ISOGG Y-DNA Haplotree with SNP naming prefixes
https://isogg.org/tree/ - IGV BAM File Viewer
http://software.broadinstitute.org/software/igv/download