Discover what your DNA says about your health as well as your heritage

“As you’d expect the ancestry features include a breakdown of your ethnic composition”

This premium package may sound expensive, but 23andme offers twice the bang for your buck. Not only does it provide thorough genealogy reports with lots of interactive features, but it also provides a genetic health risk report.

As you may have come to expect, the ancestry features include a breakdown of your ethnic composition, the options to broadly explore your paternal and maternal lines, and discover how much DNA you share with Neanderthals. These are all presented in a series of colourful and informative graphs, which give you a trove of information to explore. With three million users, 23andme doesn’t have as large a database as Ancestrydna, but this still provided us with over a 1,000 matches with third to fifth cousins. While you can’t view migration paths like you can with Ancestrydna, you can view a map of where your ‘DNA family’ are located. Depending on their level of privacy settings, you can also message these relatives directly. The health section offers reports on everything from the chance that your genetically predisposed to baldness or being lactose intolerant to whether you’re at risk of suffering from more serious conditions. This can include Parkinson’s disease, late-onset Alzheimer’s, and more. If you’re not interested in the health features, you can buy a 23andme ancestry kit for just £79. If you change your mind, you can unlock the health features for an additional fee, but without providing another saliva sample.