23andMe's Health + Ancestry Service is regularly priced $199 but is on sale for $99. That is a savings of $100 or 50 percent off.
Another sale option is a bundle: the 23andMe Health + Ancestry Service test kit (regularly $199, sale $99) plus the 23andMe Membership at a sale price of just $9.99 (renews at $29/year.)
23andMe Ancestry Service (autosomal DNA) provides an ethnicity (admixture) report, list of DNA matches, chromosome browser and an internal member messaging system. 23andMe also provides a general look at your Y-DNA haplogroup (if male) and a general look at your mtDNA haplogroup. Some DNA matching features/tools are now part of the subscription service. A newer feature is the Family Tree feature which is automatically built from your DNA relationships. See the 23andMe website to learn more about the Health service features which includes 10+ Health Pre-disposition reports, 5+ Wellness reports, and 40+ Carrier Status reports.
23andMe made some changes to its service in 2019 without any announcements to its customers before the changes happened. Be
aware that with the recent ethnicity update it was learned that testers
on the earlier testing chips would not receive any ethnicity updates at
this time, only those on the V5 Chip. Also, a few months prior testers'
DNA matches were reduced down to just 1,500 matches. (That leaves most
testers with matches related at the furthest in the 4th to 5th cousin
range.) The search capabilities also have been restricted from what it
had been capable of before. 23andMe is now implementing a
yearly subscription ($29/year) for customers on the V5 Chip who also
have tested their Health too. Those that subscribe get access to three
times the DNA matches, advanced search capabilities (like those that
were there before and some other ways to filter matches), and a new
series of health reports related to genetics and medicines as well as
some predisposition reports. Unfortunately, that would mean existing
customers not on the V5 chip would need to retest (yes, pay) so their DNA is on the V5
chip. But if an early tester is deceased there is no way to re-test that
person on the V5 Chip.
With these changes, 23andMe reduces it usability for most genealogists to use DNA to aid their research. For adoptees, donor conceived and others searching for mis-attributed parentage (not parent expected) situations, you still never know where that someone tested and so at a good sale price the 23andMe Ancestry Only test or really good sale price for the 23andMe Ancestry+Health test it might be worthwhile. But there may be limitations if that someone they seek is tested on a V4 or earlier chip.
As a reminder, 23andMe also sells its test kits on Amazon.com and often at sale prices when it is having a sale. So, at the time of this posting this time the
sale price on the Amazon website is as good as the 23andMe website deal
or a bit better because shipping is free. Non-Amazon Prime
members get free shipping due to the
total cost and because it is fulfilled by Amazon while Amazon Prime members
just get
quicker 2-day shipping for free. But be cautious and make sure the test
kit you are buying is "sold by 23andMe, Inc and fulfilled by
Amazon" to insure you are buying a genuine test kit. You will find this
information just below the price. See the image below.
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| Look for this before adding your item to your cart. |
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