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AncestryDNA raw data analysis

Your AncestryDNA file holds more than ancestry

AncestryDNA was built to trace where your family came from. But the raw genotype file it generated sits on the same clinically relevant positions a health service would read — variants Ancestry simply never interprets for you. Re-analyse the file you already own, in the EU, and see what's in it.

Re-analyse my AncestryDNA file · €79 See a sample report first

€79 one-time · the report is yours to keep · processed in the EU, never sold.

The variants Ancestry doesn't report

AncestryDNA's product is ancestry composition and DNA matches. Its genotyping chip, though, reads hundreds of thousands of positions — and a subset of those overlap carrier variants, pharmacogenomic star alleles and well-characterised risk alleles that never appear in an ancestry report. Nothing new is sequenced: the information is already in the file you downloaded. Re-analysis is what turns it into an attributed, plain-language report.

How to download your AncestryDNA raw data

  1. Sign in at Ancestry and go to your DNA settings (via your account/DNA menu).
  2. Choose Download DNA Data (sometimes shown under the settings for your specific test).
  3. Confirm your password; Ancestry emails you a secure link.
  4. Follow the link to download the raw file (a zipped .txt). That archive is what we re-analyse — keep it somewhere private.

What an AncestryDNA chip can — and can't — show

AncestryDNA uses a different genotyping array than 23andMe, so the exact set of positions read differs — some pharmacogenomic and carrier variants are covered, others aren't. Our approach is the same either way, and honest about the edges:

  • We read what your specific file contains and attribute every finding to ClinVar / ACMG / CPIC.
  • We show no-calls as no-calls — positions your chip didn't read — instead of imputing over the gaps.
  • Structural variation stays out of reach. Copy-number effects such as CYP2D6 duplications aren't resolvable from array data; where a metabolizer status would be uncertain we mark it indeterminate rather than guess.

Want deeper coverage than any chip allows? A whole-genome re-analysis resolves much of what an array can't — but for most people the AncestryDNA file is a genuinely useful, honest starting point.

Where your file lives

Processed and stored in Finland, never leaving the EU (GDPR Article 9). The raw upload is deleted after analysis by default. There's no genome vault here to be sold — see the security architecture. If AncestryDNA's own data handling is why you're here, the 23andMe bankruptcy explainer lays out why "who holds your genome" is the question that matters.

Aimosti performs a bioinformatic re-analysis of data you already own. We never take a sample, sequence, test, or diagnose. Every finding is a literature match to confirm with a clinician, not a diagnosis.

Why not the €23 option?

Promethease and Genetic Genie read the same public databases we do. The difference is time. They hand you a report frozen on the day you run it, built from the few thousand positions a genotyping chip happens to type. We read your whole genome where you have it, attribute every finding to the guideline it came from, and re-read your file as those guidelines change. You buy the careful version once, and it stays current. You keep it either way.

Named services are described from their public product pages; features change and we don't speak for them. Cheaper isn't the problem. What "frozen the day you ran it" costs you three years later is.

A one-time AncestryDNA re-analysis is €79. The report is yours to keep.

See a sample report Re-analyse my AncestryDNA data: €79

Other file types: 23andMe raw data · MyHeritage raw data · Choosing a service that never holds your genome.