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Family Tree has a special offer at present, so if you know anyone who should join the Duke DNA group, please let them know that this is a great time to be tested.
Offer summary:
Recent interest in Deep Clade testing on our featured Haplogroups (E, G, H, I, J ,N, O, Q, & R) has been brisk as more and more people take advantage of the newly discovered SNPs, both from SNP chips and Family Tree DNA’s “Walk Through The Y-Chromosome" program.
As we more tightly determine the specific terminal SNP for each person, your history and migration patterns becomes a little clearer. This information can also be used to improve Y-DNA matching. Later this year we will employ SmartMatching on the Y chromosome matches. With SmartMatching, we can eliminate evolutionary convergence. For example, if you are confirmed to belong to haplogroup J1e, and you match another person confirmed to be J2 or J1a, you cannot have been related to them within many thousands of years. SmartMatching eliminates these matches from your list as they are excluded as potential relatives within a genealogical time frame. When we employ SmartMatching on the Y chromosome your number of matches may decrease, but the quality of the matches that remain will increase.
Determining your Y-DNA Deep Clade haplogroup assignment will help you to benefit more from the SmartMatching system. As part of the summers’ final promotion we are discounting all Deep Clade tests and all extensions/upgrades for Y-DNA SNPs at 20% off the standard price. These prices have already been adjusted into the system. For example, the sale price for the Deep R Clade test is $71.20, compared to the regular price of $89. The sale price for the Deep Clade Extension test, which is the upgrade for those who have previously tested their Deep Clade, starts at $31.20 rather than $39.