When we first wrote this article, it compared 23andMe and Ancestry. Since then, 23andMe has experienced a data breach, a subsequent lawsuit, board members' resignations and layoffs amidst financial ...

Ancestry.com apologized Thursday for a controversial advertisement published to its YouTube channel earlier this month. The ad appeared to show a white man trying to convince a black woman in what ...

A team of researchers has conducted the largest and most comprehensive genome-wide association study (GWAS) to date of ...

A few years ago, I set out on my journey to learn if there were any Patriots in my family tree.

Genealogy and DNA-testing behemoth Ancestry.com is selling 75% of itself to alternative asset manager Blackstone Group, according to a report from Bloomberg. The total deal is valued at $4.7 billion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What happens if hackers expose your ancestry data — or even your DNA records? (Getty Images) (Westend61 via Getty Images) Millions ...

Consumer genetics and genealogy company Ancestry announced a new feature, called SideView, that will give customers information about which bits of their DNA — and which parts of their ethnicity — ...