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Affiliate Links

Posted by on October 9, 2013 1 comment

As you can see, I now have affiliate links on the sidebar. If you order a test following those links, I get a small amount for referring you.

Right now, I have FTDNA and 23andme listed there.

FTDNA Summer Sale

Posted by on July 11, 2012 1 comment

FTDNA is having a sale on its DNA tests till July 15, 2012.

Their autosomal test, Family Finder, which can be submitted to Harappa Ancestry Project, is on sale for $199 instead of a regular price of $289.

In addition, their mtDNA and Y-DNA products are also discounted till end of day July 15.

FTDNA FF to PED Conversion

Posted by on June 23, 2012 Comments Off on FTDNA FF to PED Conversion

Someone asked about how to convert a FTDNA Family Finder csv data file to the Plink format. I threw together a very simple Unix script to do that and I am sharing it here:

#!/bin/bash
if test -z "$1"
then
        echo "FTDNA raw data filename not supplied as argument."
        exit 0
fi
echo "Family ID: "
read fid
echo "Individual ID: "
read id
echo "Paternal ID: "
read pid
echo "Maternal ID: "
read mid
echo "Sex (m/f/u): "
read sexchr
if [[ $sexchr == m* ]]
then
        sex=1
elif [[ $sexchr == f* ]]
then
        sex=2
else
        sex=0
fi
pheno=0
 
echo "$fid $id $pid $mid $sex $pheno" > $id.tfam
 
dos2unix $1
sed '1d' $1 > $id.nocomment
awk -F, '{gsub(/"/,""); print $2,$1,"0",$3,substr($4,1,1),substr($4,2,1)}' $id.nocomment > $id.tped
rm $id.nocomment
 
plink --tfile $id --out $id --make-bed --missing-genotype - --output-missing-genotype 0

This script creates three files: *.bed, *.bim and *.fam, which are the binary format files for Plink. You can then use Plink to merge multiple files, filter SNPs or individuals and do other processing.

June Update

Posted by on June 4, 2011 Comments Off on June Update

I have a total of 123 participants in the project right now who have sent me their raw data. Six of those have relatives participating and thus have to be filtered out for most analysis other than individual admixture percentages etc where I divide participants into small groups.Укладка дикого камня

The following groups are represented:

Most are 23andme data while 4 are from FTDNA.

We are getting close to 100 South Asian participants.

Accepting FTDNA Family Finder

Posted by on May 2, 2011 Comments Off on Accepting FTDNA Family Finder

In addition to 23andme data, I am now accepting the autosomal data from FTDNA Family Finder too.

This is due to the recent switch to Illumina Omni chip by FamilyTreeDNA which has a lot more markers in common with the 23andme data.

Since FTDNA is retesting all its current customers on the new chip, even if you tested with them earlier, you should have autosomal data from the new chip which you can download and email to me at harappa@zackvision.com.

I am basically looking for participants who have at least some ancestry from the following countries/regions:

  • Afghanistan
  • Bangladesh
  • Bhutan
  • Burma
  • India
  • Iran
  • Maldives
  • Nepal
  • Pakistan
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tibet

But if you have ancestry from West or Central Asia or Caucasus, I am likely to accept your data too.

Details of participation are here.

April Update

Posted by on May 1, 2011 5 comments

I have a total of 97 participants in the project right now who have sent me their raw data. Six of those have relatives participating and thus have to be filtered out for most analysis other than individual admixture percentages etc where I divide participants into small groups.http://mountainsphoto.ru

The following groups are represented:

Let's try to get to hundred soon.

And yes, I am accepting FTDNA Family Finder (new Illumina chip) now.