The new series of services offered by GeneTree provides targeted genetic information and allows users who have come up against obstacles in their family history research the opportunity to explore specific answers to genealogical questions.
The new specialty tests includes extended Y-Chromosome Haplotype, which provides additional markers with a higher mutation rate that can be used to clarify shared paternal ancestry and X-Chromosome, which traces modified pathways for both the maternal and paternal lines and can be helpful in specific relationship questions.
Further, Autosomal STR can provide genealogical information going back up to five generations and Y-Chromosome SNP test for Haplogroup Classification provides an exact assignment to specific ethnic groups or geographical locations.
These tests work on GeneTree’s Enhanced Maternal Lineage Test (mtDNA HVR-1,2,3) and the Enhanced Paternal Lineage Test (Y-DNA 46 marker).
SMGF is a research organization that has created the repository of correlated genetic and genealogical information and its database contains information about more than eight million ancestors through linked DNA samples and pedigree charts from more than 170 countries, approximately 90% of the nations of the world.
