Q: Do the MyHeritage at-home DNA test kits ever go on sale?

MyHeritage’s at-home DNA tests are [affiliate-link vendor="12306" deeplink-family="ancestry"]frequently available at a discount[/affiliate-link]. You can also always find up-to-date coupon codes for MyHeritage’s test kits at DNAWeekly.com.

Q: How do 23andMe and MyHeritage compare on price?

MyHeritage’s DNA tests are usually less expensive in their list price than 23andMe’s tests, and are more likely to be on sale at any given time.

Question 1

Does MyHeritage cover the cost of shipping?

Accepted Answer

MyHeritage DNA covers the cost of sending you your test kit, but you must pay the return postage for mailing your sample back.

Question 2

How expensive is MyHeritage compared to competitors?

Accepted Answer

MyHeritage DNA’s tests start at [price vendor="myheritagedna" category="ancestry" ] are consistently less expensive than those of its chief competitors, [affiliate-link vendor="12293" ]23andMe[/affiliate-link], starting at [price vendor="23andme" category="ancestry" ] and [affiliate-link vendor="12324" ]AncestryDNA[/affiliate-link], starting at [price vendor="ancestry" category="ancestry" ].

Question 3

What sort of subscriptions plans does MyHeritage offer?

Accepted Answer

MyHeritage’s genealogy service is available in several tiers. Its [affiliate-link vendor="12306" deeplink-family="ancestry"]Basic service is free[/affiliate-link], but only allows you to add 250 people to your family tree, and doesn’t let you add Smart Matches from the company’s historical records database to your tree. The Premium subscription can accommodate 2,500 family members, and includes Smart Matches, as does its PremiumPlus subscription, which can accommodate a family tree of unlimited size. Then there is a Historical Record Data plan that is limited to 250 people, like the basic service, but lets you leverage the company’s entire 11.9-billion record database of historical data. And finally, the Complete package is limitless both in how many people your family tree can accommodate, and how many historical records you may access. MyHeritage also offers a Health subscription that updates your DNA findings to reflect new health reports as they become available.

Question 4

Do the MyHeritage at-home DNA test kits ever go on sale?

Accepted Answer

MyHeritage&rsquo;s at-home DNA tests are [affiliate-link vendor="12306" deeplink-family="ancestry"]frequently available at a discount[/affiliate-link]. You can also always find up-to-date coupon codes for MyHeritage&rsquo;s test kits at DNAWeekly.com.

Question 5

Which test is more accurate, 23andMe or MyHeritage?

Accepted Answer

In order to make give you an ethnicity estimate, [affiliate-link vendor="12306" ]MyHeritage[/affiliate-link] compares your DNA samples to 42 different global populations. This doesn&rsquo;t allow your ethnicity results to be as precise and accurate as the ones you get from [affiliate-link vendor="12293" ]23andMe[/affiliate-link], which compares your samples to more than 1,000 global populations.

Question 6

Which provides more value, 23andMe or MyHeritage?

Accepted Answer

“Value” is subjective. But while MyHeritage DNA’s test kits are usually more affordable (starting at [price vendor="myheritagedna" category="ancestry" ]) than the ones from 23andMe (starting at [price vendor="23andme" category="ancestry" ]), the reports you receive from MyHeritage DNA include considerably less information and are less accurate than the ones available from 23andMe. Also, 23andMe updates your DNA results to reflect the company’s ongoing refinements to its ancestry and health testing, whereas MyHeritage charges an annual fee to do this.

Question 7

Which vendor provides better health reports, 23andMe or MyHeritage?

Accepted Answer

It’s not clear if there’s any difference in the accuracy of the two company’s health results. But 23andMe tests your risk for more diseases, and your carrier status for more congenital disorders, than MyHeritage DNA does. And while a [affiliate-link vendor="12306" deeplink-family="health-and-wellness"]MyHeritage[/affiliate-link] health test only addresses your disease risk and carrier status, 23andMe’s health test also includes additional information such as how your DNA may affect wellness traits like diet, exercise, and sleep, and physical traits like eye color and finger length. [affiliate-link vendor="12293" ]23andMe[/affiliate-link] also gives you a customized health action plan.

Question 8

Which vendor provides better ancestry reports, 23andMe or MyHeritage?

Accepted Answer

MyHeritage DNA’s ancestry reports are limited to providing you with an ethnicity estimate and identifying your likely DNA relatives around the world. 23andMe also tells you about your maternal and paternal haplogroups and how much of your DNA came from Neanderthals. [affiliate-link vendor="12293" ]23andMe’s[/affiliate-link] ancestry reports are more detailed and substantive, and its ethnicity estimates are more accurate, than the ones from [affiliate-link vendor="12306" deeplink-family="ancestry"]MyHeritage DNA[/affiliate-link].

Question 9

How do 23andMe and MyHeritage compare on price?

Accepted Answer

MyHeritage&rsquo;s DNA tests are usually less expensive in their list price than 23andMe&rsquo;s tests, and are more likely to be on sale at any given time.

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