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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: Anydogsbody on Thursday 25 October 18 12:04 BST (UK)
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I have my raw DNA profile as text file. There are thousands of lines relating to Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms i.e nucleotide pairs at each location on each chromosome. I have pasted in the format below:
rsid chromosome position allele 1 allele2
rs190214723 1 693625 T T
rs3131972 1 752721 G G
I understand most of this except the rsid (Reference SNP cluster ID) number. Certain genes are specific to Royal Stewart ancestry S781 being an example.
How does that number relate to the rsid? Somehow I feel it is unlikely that simply searching the text file for the S781 sequence in the rsid is the way forward. Incidentally, I did that and got 780 hits.
Is the rsid simply a resource locator to allow access to further information.