MyHeritage DNA Test Kit $76 (Normally $139) + $14.29 Postage ($0 with 2 or More Kits)

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tm001 on 23/06/2022 - 00:23 myheritage.com (107 clicks)
Last edited 23/06/2022 - 10:25 by 1 other user

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Maybe not for everyone, but this is one of the cheapest prices you can get for a DNA kit.
Primarily for genealogy, family tree builds etc. It will tell you your origins and try to match you with others.
It comes with 1 month free Complete membership. You can cancel that, if not it will be 50% off the first year ($174 pa instead of $349 pa)
The advantage of the 1 month membership is the full access to their photo restoration AI software. It is pretty good for restoring and coloring old photographs. It has amazing results.
Don't forget the coupon for the free postage.

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  dosada on 23/06/2022 - 00:26

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  Read before you buy

  https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/myheritage

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    ThirtySixNights on 23/06/2022 - 00:44

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    These are savage. Sounds like this is a scam to me.

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      tm001 on 23/06/2022 - 03:15

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      I have not had any issues with them in the past. They are one of the biggest ancestry sites and have been around for quite a while. On Trustpilot they are 3.7 and on Amazon 4.4.
      So it is definitely not a scam. Just in case use Paypal and remove the authorization afterwards.
      Also in Nov last year it was quite popular here on Ozb as well https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/666088

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    tm001 on 23/06/2022 - 00:45

    Good point. Definitely remove the authorization from Paypal once the payment for the kit is processed.

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    eug on 23/06/2022 - 08:35

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    Do keep in mind the limitations of review sites like productreview.com.au. It often only attracts people who want to complain, which could be the minority.

    If you only went by productreview.com.au, you'd think Apple has absolutely terrible customer service.

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  Joyoz on 23/06/2022 - 00:48

  MyHeritage allows about once a year for you to upload from Ancestry and have your results unlocked free. Alternatively you can still upload and unlock at a fee. MyHeritage will accept Ancestry and 23 and me uploads but the other 2 won't accept other dna kit uploads. I hope this helps anyone considering between the two or this deal.

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    amanda89 on 23/06/2022 - 01:03

    Ancestry won't accept myheritage DNA upload? Ah damn already have mine in ancestry and was hoping to put parents on there too

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  jv on 23/06/2022 - 01:33

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  I sent in the DNA of my pet snake and the results came back stating I was first cousins with Dan Andrews !!!!

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    jackspratt on 23/06/2022 - 01:39

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    What a coincidence - I sent the DNA of my pet rock, and the results came back saying I was a close relation of jv.

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      jv on 23/06/2022 - 01:41

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      So that would match with my pet snake's DNA.

      It's great that all 3 are related.

      Maybe organise a reunion?

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        jackspratt on 23/06/2022 - 19:30

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        Good idea. I'll mail the rock to you, registered post.

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  Tamagotchi Breeder on 23/06/2022 - 10:51

  I'm not sure if this applies to this service, but I read that majority of the testing is performed and the data retained in China?

  Take this with a grain of salt; I don't have the source of the article on hand, but from what I recall it was most major DNA ancestry services being offered.

  If it is true, I'm not sure I want CCP having my DNA on their records or Xi Jinping making copies of me hahaha.

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    toliman on 23/06/2022 - 14:34

    Keep in mind, most DNA testing isn’t able to be used for much, unless they keep a sample around for years to reverify results.

    The kits usually rely on saliva, not blood, so it doesn’t last as long, or provide enough DNA to sequence reliably. YMMV.

    Testing is way more reliable now, but it’s unlikely a business could afford to sequence thousands of people, even with government funding. It’s also slow and inefficient work.

    The equipment used for genotyping is designed to be fast, using custom-made hardware chips to search for different SNP sets, so it’s difficult to compare results or get export results to pair up between different tests as well.

    https://geneticgenie.org/article/best-dna-raw-data-23andme-a…

    What AncestryDNA and MyHeritage and 23andMe screen for, aren’t giving the same result, and because it’s a “quick” process, you can have errors come up.

    Even if China gets hold of millions of results, it’s only going to show relevant results if there’s also Chinese ancestry results in the mix to show ancestry and migration results for comparison. And it’s decidedly not as “mixed” as European/American migration has been.

    You’d need to have a lot (tens of thousands) of China/Asian DNA sequenced results to get a reliable comparison set, and have someone figure out what is relevant. The overlap between exported or raw results from these companies isn’t easily shown either.

    While it seems useful to look at 5% Neanderthal values and so on, it’s a little bit like astrology when it comes to health or ancestry results, because the genotypes need to be included from a “known”/researched or identified sequence/SNP, and the different tests look for different groups.