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Re: FamilyTreeDNA provides Y-DNA haplogroups from Family Finder autosomal tests


 

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MyHeritage have a database of 7.7 million whereas FTDNA¡¯s Family Finder database is only about 1.5 million so you would expect many more matches at MyHeritage though I¡¯m sure you¡¯re right that MyHeritage have many more customers from Poland.

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When MyHeritage wrote that blog post about their matching algorithms the companies were all using the Illumina OmniExpress. The move to the Illumina Global Screening Array made everything much more complicated and has resulted in many more false matches. There are only about 150,000 SNPs out of about 700,000 in common across the two different chips. See the ISOGG SNP Comparison Chart:

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I suspect that if MyHeritage were to repeat that trio analysis today the ratio of child-only matches would be much higher.

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I have two kits at MyHeritage. One is an AncestryDNA transfer done on the OmniExpress and the other is a new test on the Global Screening Array. Here is a comparison I did at the beginning of November this year.

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Illumina OmniExpress transfer

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10,288 matches for Debbie

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3,274 DNA matches shared with Debbie¡¯s dad

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2,954 DNA Matches shared with Debbie¡¯s mum

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4,060 matches not shared with either parent (39%)

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New test on Global Screening Array

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8,856 matches for Debbie

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2,303 DNA matches shared with Debbie¡¯s dad

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2,004 DNA Matches shared with Debbie¡¯s mum

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4,549 matches not shared with either parent (51%)

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1,432 matches not replicated on GSA (14%)

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Best wishes

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Debbie

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Centropol
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2023 3:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [R1b-U106] FamilyTreeDNA provides Y-DNA haplogroups from Family Finder autosomal tests

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Thank you very much Debbie. That really clarifies a lot and explains why I have 2x more matches in MH compared to FTDNA, although MH is a bit more popular in Poland, I think, also because of the multiple languages it can be used in.

I was really surprised to see that 16-20 percent of child-only matches are considered a good result.

"The last step of DNA Matching is filtering out false positives and estimating the specific relationship between two individuals with shared DNA segments. Because many of us are descendants of the same very ancient ancestors, we often have tiny shared DNA segments with individuals we wouldn¡¯t really consider family. We sought a method to filter out such matches that only frustrate genealogists. To this end, we measure false positives internally by looking at?trios?¡ª these are sets of child, mother, and father who were all tested with MyHeritage DNA kits, and received results that validated that the relationships between the parents and child is correct. Any match that a child has with another individual, who does not match neither the father nor the mother is suspected to be a false positive and is called a?child-only match. We measure the percentage of child-only matches among all matches that are returned for children in all known trios on MyHeritage, and this figure is called the percentage of suspected false positives indicated by child-only matches. We managed to bring this figure down to 16¨C20 percent, which is a good result that as far as we know is equivalent to or better than all other DNA services.?Our improved classifier algorithms have succeeded in bringing our false positive rate to an all-time low."

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