Living DNA
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| Type | Deep ancestry, genealogy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 (as DNA Worldwide) 2016 as Living DNA |
| Founder(s) | David Nicholson, Hannah Morden |
| Headquarters | Frome, Somerset, England |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Y-DNA SNPs, mtDNA, biogeographical ancestry |
| Website | www.livingdna.com |
Living DNA is a DNA testing company which offers an ancestry and wellbeing test. The ancestry test provides a biogeographical ancestry analysis with Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroup reports combined with autosomal DNA relative matching. A wellbeing test offers reports on nutrition and fitness. The ancestry and wellbeing tests can be purchased as separate standalone tests. A combined ancestry and wellbeing test is also available.
Living DNA's relative-matching feature is known as Family Networks. It first became available as a public beta offering limited matching with close relatives in February 2019.[1] Extended matching with relatives up to the ninth degree level (fourth cousins) became available in May 2020.[2] A messaging feature was launched in June 2019.[3]
Living DNA launched a One Family One World Project in October 2017. This is a five-year project which aims to create a single worldwide family tree based on people's DNA and to produce the first fine-scale genetic map of the world .[4][5]
Reviews
- Living DNA – a new genetic ancestry test providing comparisons with the People of the British Isles dataset by Debbie Kennett. Cruwys News, 27 September 2016.
- My Living DNA results Part 1: family ancestry maps by Debbie Kennett. Cruwys News, 11 January 2017
- My Living DNA results Part 2: mtDNA and Y-DNA reports by Debbie Kennett. Cruwys News, 19 January 2017
- Received my Living DNA autosomal test results - post 1 by Randy Seaver, Geneamusings, 10 January 2017.
- Comparing my Living DNA results with other autosomal DNA tests by Randy Seaver, Geneamusings, 12 January 2017
- My DNA: Living DNA results by Emma Jolly, 14 January 2017.
- My Living DNA result has arrived by Donna Rutherford, 1 February 2017.
- Living DNA - my early results are in by Paul Brooker. Journals of a Nonconformist, 30 January 2017.
- Living DNA results by John Reid. Anglo-Celtic Connections, 3 February 2017.
- My Living DNA test results by Philip Grass. Learnalittleeveryday, 14 February 2017.
- The new Living DNA test: a review of my results by CeCe Moore. Your Genetic Genealogist, 16 February 2017.
- A slight sidetrack - my Living DNA results by Barbara Griffiths. Not Just the Parrys, 19 February 2017.
- St David's Day DNA by Ancestral Wales, 1 March 2017.
- Living DNA product review by Roberta Estes DNAeXplained 4 May 2017.
- Living DNA: I'm not who I thought I was by Jane Roberts, Past to Present Genealogy, 28 June 2017.
- My updated family ancestry maps from Living DNA by Debbie Kennett, Cruwys News, 1 August 2017.
- Living DNA Announces Move from Illumina Microarray by Ed Williams, Counting Chromosomes, 23 October 2018.
External links
- Living DNA official website
- Living DNA Facebook page
- Living DNA on Twitter
- Living DNA Users' Group on Facebook (not run by the company)
See also
- Y-DNA SNP testing chart
- mtDNA testing comparison chart
- Y-DNA haplogroup projects
- mtDNA haplogroup projects
References and footnotes
- ↑ DNA matching open beta - be part of it today. Living DNA blog, 14 February 2019.
- ↑ Family Networks update May 2020. Living DNA blog, 22nd May 2020.
- ↑ Family Networks - A guide to messaging. Living DNA blog, 17 June 2019.
- ↑ Living DNA launches One Family One World Project. Family Tree Magazine 30 October 2017.
- ↑ Kennett D. Living DNA updates - free transfers and the launch of the One Family One World project. Cruwys News 26 October 2017.