Skip to main content
5 votes
Accepted

After a Big-Y test on FamilyTreeDNA does it make sense to order further SNP tests?

Before I ordered any extra SNP tests, I would wait a few weeks or months. Big Y tests an awful lot of markers, and unlike most other tests, it also discovers hitherto unknown markers (kind of like a "...
John's user avatar
  • 66
3 votes

After a Big-Y test on FamilyTreeDNA does it make sense to order further SNP tests?

In general I would say no, but there are couple of reasons in which you might. I covered them in this answer "If you plan on getting a BigY is there any value in going beyond Y37 to a degree too. ...
CRSouser's user avatar
  • 5,591
2 votes
Accepted

How distant should cousins be before a Big-Y test is helpful?

In terms of financial efficiency, the Big Y is more preferrable than yDNA-111. Why? Because (let's imagine) that you got the yDNA-111 result for this particular person. You also has the result for ...
GEORG GAAL's user avatar

Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible