id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6032 Genetic genealogy - Wikipedia .html text/html 5933 878 63 In fall 2001, GeneTree sold its assets to Salt Lake City-based Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF) which originated in 1999.[5] While in operation, SMGF provided free Y-Chromosome and mitochondrial DNA tests to thousands.[6] Later, GeneTree returned to genetic testing for genealogy in conjunction with the Sorenson parent company and eventually was part of the assets acquired in the Ancestry.com buyout of SMGF.[7] By 2003, the field of DNA testing of surnames was declared officially to have "arrived" in an article by Jobling and Tyler-Smith in Nature Reviews Genetics.[20] The number of firms offering tests, and the number of consumers ordering them, rose dramatically.[21] In 2018, a paper in Science Magazine estimated that a DNA genealogy search on anybody of European descent would result in a third cousin or closer match 60% of the time.[22] DNA and Family History : How Genetic Testing Can Advance Your Genealogical Research. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6032.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6032.txt