gov/biotech/strbase/ Q: Is the set of autosomal STR markers markers used in DNA Tribes analysis sufficient to provide a robust and detailed genetic ancestry analysis?
Yes. Genetic ancestry analysis requires many data points, consisting of both informative DNA markers and robust population reference data. DNA Tribes analysis uses a powerful set of industry standard DNA markers relied on by police agencies and courts of law for their strong intra-populational variability. DNA Tribes compares each person’s unique set of highly informative DNA markers to our database representing hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. This enables us to not only basic continental groups, but to “zoom in” further and perform the most detailed structual analysis of world populations available to identify individual genetic regions sharing unique genetic patterns. DNA Tribes customers receive the most comprehensive and detailed genetic ancestry analysis available. New but expensive technologies have allowed testing of hundreds or thousands of SNPs or other markers, which has sometimes been used for a ancestry analysis. However, these analyses are limited by the small a
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