AutoLineage
AutoLineage is the flagship tool of Genetic Affairs — a cross-company workbench where clustering, common-ancestor detection (AutoTree), tree reconstruction (AutoKinship) and MRCA labelling all come together. It supports FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, Ancestry, 23andMe and GEDmatch in a single workspace.
Key Features
Availability across different companies
Compare the availability and features of the AutoLineage tool across five major genetic testing companies.FTDNA
- supported
- Import data from an AutoTree, AutoCluster or AutoKinship analysis
- Import data from DNA Gedcom
23andme
- supported
- Import data from DNA Gedcom
Ancestry
- supported
- Import data from saved HTML files or copy paste in browser
- Import data from DNA Gedcom
MyHeritage
- supported
- Import data from saved HTML files
- Import data from DNA Gedcom
GEDmatch
- supported
- Import data from an AutoKinship analysis
- Import data from DNA Gedcom
AutoLineage step-by-step
Explore the steps required by the AutoLineage tool.Location analysis
Plot the locations of your ancestors!AutoLineage: how to get started for MyHeritage
4. Receive results in mail
5. Extend results
Save DNA matches
Visit the DNA matches of the person of interest, scroll down and set the results on the page to 50 and save the page to HTML file. Repeat this step the next pages, until you have retrieved sufficient matches to work with.
Run AutoClusters
Visit the AutoClusters page on MyHeritage and start the analysis for the person of interest. This will cluster around 100 DNA matches. You can skip this step if you plan to use shared-match information from saved HTML files (Option 2 in "Import shared matches" below).
Create/register profile
Visit AutoLineage and select (or register) a profile to be linked to the person of interest. Next, register
Create/register DNA test
In the profile of interest, select or register a new MyHeritage DNA test
Import DNA matches
Import the DNA matches, and select the last HTML option. Select the HTML files that were created a few steps back.
Import shared matches
From the DNA test overview pane, import the shared DNA matches. Two options are supported:- Option 1 — AutoCluster HTML: select the AutoCluster HTML produced by MyHeritage. This gives you the shared matches your closest ~100 matches.
- Option 2 — Saved shared-match HTML pages (recommended): for each cluster (or shared-match list) of interest, open the shared matches page on MyHeritage for that match and save it to an HTML file. Repeat for any further matches whose shared-match lists you want to include, then import those HTML files here. The benefit is that the shared cM values between shared matches are captured, which is exactly the inter-match cM data that AutoKinship needs to reconstruct relationships within the cluster.
Start clustering
In the DNA test overview pane, select the clustering button, set the parameters and start the clustering analysis.
Visit clustering
When the clustering analysis is finished, the chart will be displayed. Notice that a high cM match is available in the clustering. Since this match shares more than 400 cM, it is not used by the AutoClusters tool from MyHeritage. In this case, shared match information for the high cM match was saved to a HTML file and imported separately.
Common ancestors
The analysis can be continued by importing the trees of the DNA matches, and the tested person. After trees have been imported, the common ancestor identifcation can be started.
Check out our AutoLineage FAQ
Our AutoLineage FAQ section covers everything you need to know about AutoLineage. For more in-depth background, see the Genetic Affairs documentation.
