Due to our unique scientific background, we can provide you more information than any other testing company: in addition to your specific data, you'll be receiving a series of other relevant information, like deep ancestral origins, matches with other individuals that share the same results, your recent ethnic origins, and for the Y-DNA, our patent pending FTDNATiP - the Time Predictor to the Most Recent Common Ancestor between you and other individuals that are relevant matches to you.
Y-DNA Test
When you test your Y-DNA, you receive not just the information that is relevant for your genealogical research - the markers that you are going to compare to other individuals' results - but you also have the possibility of knowing about your most distant ancestral origin in that paternal line. This can be done by either predicting it from your marker results, or through additional testing. Sometimes predictions can lead to inaccurate determinations of the deep ancestral origins, especially when the comparative databases that lead to those predictions are small. A recent example of a wrong prediction occurred when another company attributed someone as a descendant of Genghis Khan, when he was far from being that.
Here's where the Family Tree DNA test has an added value that no other company has: because the Family Tree DNA database is by far the largest in the world, our prediction in 90% of cases can be made with absolute certainty, and in those cases where we are not 100% confident, we will perform the additional testing (called SNP testing) for free to make the bullet-proof determination of one's deep ancestral origins. That's what we call the SNP Assurance Program, and Family Tree DNA is the only company that offers this guarantee.
mtDNA Test
On the mtDNA side, Family Tree DNA is the only Genetic Genealogy company that along with your mtDNA sequencing (HVR1) performs a panel of 22 SNP tests - for free - to unambiguously position your maternal line results in the ancestral tree of the humankind. We do this because unlike Y-DNA, the predictions for mtDNA are much more prone to error without the additional testing. By testing the panel of 22 SNPs for all of these, we are able make a definitive determination.
Certificates and Reports
Family Tree DNA makes results available to our customers both electronically and by regular mail. When the lab completes a test, we upload the results to our database and notify you via e-mail that the results are available online. The online results are accessed from the login box on our home page.
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Online results for a standard user.
A certificate and a report are sent by regular mail. The certificate contains the name of the tested
individual, the results, and, in the case of the Native American or Cohanim test, shows whether the results were positive
or negative.
The following are reduced samples of the materials sent by mail:
1. The Y-DNA and mtDNA test certificate will be similar to one of these:
 
2. Depending on the test, a four to five page report included with the certificate :
  
3. Maternal Match or mtDNA test results include the following migration map:
4. Native American tests include the following maps:
5. FTDNATiP - Time Predictor to the Most Recent Common Ancestor:
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