How accurate is it? It is useful?
How accurate is it? It is useful?
Don't go in with unrealistic expectations. You'll learn some "stuff" and then realize you don't care about that particular "stuff." It's not like you will be told "You're 50% Irish, 25% German, and 25% French"
DNA testing is it worth it wrote:
How accurate is it? It is useful?
If you knew how accurate it was, you wouldn't need the service.
Listen to the commercials. That's the type of info you'll get.
oh please wrote:
Don't go in with unrealistic expectations. You'll learn some "stuff" and then realize you don't care about that particular "stuff." It's not like you will be told "You're 50% Irish, 25% German, and 25% French"
Umm...maybe they've changed the service since I used it...but that's pretty much exactly what it tells you.
Good question. Do they identify which East African heritage is in your DNA?
One of the most useful things you'll find out is if you are genetically predisposed to not smell asparagus in your urine.
I know someone that did it, but they are anti-social and nosey.
They were told 50% this, and 50% mixed .... $500
Get a life ...
They are simply funding and paving the way for 10s of thousands of retarded babies that will be discarded when people try to manipulate dna and birth Pet children, selfishly - here in about 10 years.
"Nice blonde and blue eyed one, that you have there . .. "
"Yes, his name is Fido"
The real purpose is to gather genetic information on millions of people. That kind of a database will be a gold mine in the future. The information credit card and social media companies have on you right now is virtually irrelevant in comparison.
If you've ever had your blood drown for anything, your info is already out there. Stop freaking out about that murder you committed years ago, they can find you but they're just too lazy right now.
Routine blood tests do not include genetic profiling.
And it's not about avoiding criminal prosecution, it's more about having your information misused by the government and the corporations. If a company has all this genetic data warehoused, how long do think it will be before they get hacked? What if you can't get reasonable medical insurance because of your genetic profile? What if you get turned down for a job because your prospective employer doesn't want people genetically predisposed to cancer? How do you safeguard all this?
Trump_better_listen wrote:
They are simply funding and paving the way for 10s of thousands of retarded babies that will be discarded when people try to manipulate dna and birth Pet children, selfishly - here in about 10 years.
A blastocyst !="baby". Many things have to go right before a blastocyst->embryo->foetus->baby
I've done a lot of these tests. The current AncestryDNA test with its 'Genetic Communities' is getting more detailed and accurate. You can also use the results for cousing finding out to about 4th-5th cousin. Ancestry just hit the 4M size in their database.
There is also one just launched in the UK called LivingDNA which has lots of regional groups they can assign you to, based on a science project called 'Peoples of the British Isles'.
This is the White Paper for Genetic Communities
To answer the OP's actual question, I just sent my material to this outfit. My daughter had given me the kit as a birthday present. I'll be interested to see what they have to tell me.
A liberal friend's wife had the test. She was is disappointed because she did not have any Black, Hispanic or Native American in her DNA.
Typical.
lease wrote:
To answer the OP's actual question, I just sent my material to this outfit. My daughter had given me the kit as a birthday present. I'll be interested to see what they have to tell me.
I did 23 and Me a while back, and it's interesting - it gives some vague stuff like increased risk of some condition. Nothing really actionable and your physician will probably shrug at the generally non-actionable information. View it as entertainment.
It works only for the past 200 years or so. They can't identify which East African civilization you go back to some 100,000 years ago.
asparagus pee wrote:
The real purpose is to gather genetic information on millions of people. That kind of a database will be a gold mine in the future. The information credit card and social media companies have on you right now is virtually irrelevant in comparison.
please tell us what can be done with this genetic information, we are dying to know.
also, without looking it up, can you name the four nucleotides in DNA and their canonical base pairing?
asparagus pee wrote:
The real purpose is to gather genetic information on millions of people. That kind of a database will be a gold mine in the future. The information credit card and social media companies have on you right now is virtually irrelevant in comparison.
This true, they have even said so.
Originally, didn't this company tell you your gene mutations and what you would die of? Then the FDA shut them down, so now they only tell you that you are 35% Saxon, 15% Anglo, 40% Southern European, 2% Noth African etc, 8% Nordic etc is this correct?