How To Upload 23andme To Wegene

In this Upload-Download series, we'll embrace each major vendor:

How to download raw information files from the vendor
How to upload raw information files to the vendor, if possible
Other mainstream vendors where you can upload this vendor's files

Please note that downloading your DNA file from whatsoever vendor does not affect your matching results at that vendor. Y'all are only downloading a re-create of your raw Deoxyribonucleic acid file.

Uploading TO 23andMe

This function is easy with 23andMe, because 23andMe doesn't accept any other vendor's files. There is no ability to upload TO 23andMe. You take to test with 23andMe if you want DNA results from 23andMe.

Downloading FROM 23andMe

In gild to upload your autosomal DNA file to another testing vendor, or GedMatch, for either matching or ethnicity, you'll demand to commencement download the DNA file from 23andMe.

Download Step one

Sign on to your account at 23andMe.

23andMe download

Under your proper name at the upper right-hand corner of your page, past clicking on the little circumvolve with your initials, you lot'll come across "Browse Raw Data." Click there.

Download Stride 2

23andMe download 2

You'll see "Your Raw Information." Click on the blueish download link.

Download Step 3

On the Download Raw Data page, scroll down towards the bottom until yous meet "Asking your raw data download."

Click on Submit asking.

Download Step 4

You lot'll see the post-obit message saying an e-mail will be sent to you.

23andMe download 4

Download Footstep 5

A few minutes later, an e-mail will arrive that says this:

23andMe download 5

Click on the green push button in the electronic mail which volition take y'all back to 23andMe to sign in.

Download Step vi

After y'all sign in, you'll see that your download file is ready. Click on "Download Raw Data" and you lot will come across the following.

23andMe download 6

Your raw data file will exist downloaded to your computer where you'll demand to store it in a location and by a name that yous tin can find.

The file proper noun will be something similar "genome_Roberta_Estes_v2_v3_Full_xxxxxxxx" where the xs is a long number. I would suggest adding the word 23andMe to the front when you save the file on your system.

Near vendors want an unopened zip file, so if you desire to open your file, kickoff re-create it to another name. Otherwise, you'll have to download once more.

23andMe DNA File Uploads to Other Vendors

23andMe files tin can be in one whatsoever i of iv formats:

V2 – the earliest tests taken at 23andMe. V2 exam takers were offered an upgrade to V3.
V3 – V3 files beginning December 2010 through December 2013
V4 – V4 files beginning December 2013 through August 2017
V5 – V5 files beginning August 2017 through present, Baronial 2021

The changes in the files due to chip differences sometimes cause bug with uploads to other vendors who use other testing chips.

From below to >>>>>>>	Family Tree DNA Accepts *	MyHeritage Accepts**	GedMatch Accepts ***	Beginnings Accepts	LivingDNA Accepts ****
23andMe V2	No	Yep	Yes	No	Yes
23andMe V3	Yes	Yes	Aye	No	Yes
23andMe V4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
23andMe V5	Yeah	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

* The upload to Family Tree DNA and matching is free, but advanced tools including the chromosome browser and ethnicity crave a former $nineteen unlock fee.

** At MyHeritage, the upload and matching is free, but advanced tools require a 1-fourth dimension $29 unlock fee unless you are a MyHeritage subscriber. You tin upload here and endeavour a free subscription here.

*** At GedMatch, matching is free, but the more advanced features require a Tier 1 subscription for $x per month.

**** LivingDNA accepts files, but they use a dissimilar chip and their matching is still a piece of work-in-process.

23andMe Testing and DNA File Upload Strategy

My recommendation, if you've tested at 23andMe, depending on your test version, is every bit follows:

V2 – Upgrade which means retest at 23andMe to newer test version, or simply examination at another vendor
V3, V4, or V5 – Upload to Family unit Tree DNA, MyHeritage and GedMatch

Step past Pace Upload Instructions

I wrote stride-by-pace upload instructions for:

MyHeritage, click here
Family Tree Dna, click here
Beginnings, click here

Take fun!

Please note that this article was updated in August 2021.

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