DNA / Human Genome Testing. Anyone?

[passedpawn]

I just bought a kit for my brother at www.23andme.com. Random gift, but I like the random.

Anyone did this before? How did the ancestry and hereditary traits work out?

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

some of my family did it and the test showed our dominate area from 200 years ago, so they say, also had a bunch of mixed dna in there like 3% this and that, I think a couple of those were in everyones report

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

in order to be accurate you need the dna of both sides of the family, so male only, the mothers father to compare, my mothers family is from one area but my fathers were not even in the same county

it gets kind of tricky when spouses died and remarried back a hundred years ago, it was very common so I hear

 

[dmtaylor]

I have not done this, but thanks for the idea. Now I added this to my Amazon wish list as it is something I always wanted to do.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I've used it. I'm not sure of the current status of their legal battles, but they were barred from giving some of the actual genetic risk information.

That said, there are web sites available that can provide that data. One very common one is SNPedia. Essentially they make use of the same medical study results tying certain SNP data to certain traits and can give you a report essentially as accurate as 23andme used to give.

The way it works is after you submit to 23andme and they analyze your saliva, you download the raw date from them. You can then upload that raw data to SNPedia to get your report.

Some very interesting stuff...

 

[passedpawn]

I've used it. I'm not sure of the current status of their legal battles, but they were barred from giving some of the actual genetic risk information.

That said, there are web sites available that can provide that data. One very common one is SNPedia. Essentially they make use of the same medical study results tying certain SNP data to certain traits and can give you a report essentially as accurate as 23andme used to give.

The way it works is after you submit to 23andme and they analyze your saliva, you download the raw date from them. You can then upload that raw data to SNPedia to get your report.

Some very interesting stuff...

Wow... thanks for that!

 

[passedpawn]

I've used it. I'm not sure of the current status of their legal battles, but they were barred from giving some of the actual genetic risk information.

That said, there are web sites available that can provide that data. One very common one is SNPedia. Essentially they make use of the same medical study results tying certain SNP data to certain traits and can give you a report essentially as accurate as 23andme used to give.

The way it works is after you submit to 23andme and they analyze your saliva, you download the raw date from them. You can then upload that raw data to SNPedia to get your report.

Some very interesting stuff...

Got the results (my brother did, but he gave me a logon). Submitted to Promethease, got instant results.

This whole thing is overwhelming, really. Loads of info on both ancestral background and genetic markers for stuff like hair loss and hypertension and so on. Pretty neat.

Thanks for the link to Promethease btw.

 

[unionrdr]

Ancestry.com does this too. The genealogy, family tree sight. My parents are both long dead, & I don't know if I have hair clippings or anything they could use besides mine?

 

[passedpawn]

Ancestry.com does this too. The genealogy, family tree sight. My parents are both long dead, & I don't know if I have hair clippings or anything they could use besides mine?

Why would you want to do your parents? Just do yourself.

 

[bdogg171]

I don't like the idea of my dna being put into a database that can be used for who knows what purpose but then again I can be paranoid about stuff like that.

 

[passedpawn]

I don't like the idea of my dna being put into a database that can be used for who knows what purpose but then again I can be paranoid about stuff like that.

Yea, that's pretty paranoid. You'll be dust soon enough, like the rest of us. Time to stop worrying.

 

[schematix]

I did a kit from family tree DNA about 10 years ago after seeing a show on national geographic about global genetic studies that had been done to trace ancestral migrations out of africa and across the globe. Very interesting stuff.

My Y-DNA results were surprising. My dad has tracked paternal lineage to English and Germany going back about 300 years, but DNA says i'm of middle eastern descent if you go further back. My haplogroup is extremely uncommon in modern Europe.

 

[passedpawn]

I did a kit from family tree DNA about 10 years ago after seeing a show on national geographic about global genetic studies that had been done to trace ancestral migrations out of africa and across the globe. Very interesting stuff.

My Y-DNA results were surprising. My dad has tracked paternal lineage to English and Germany going back about 300 years, but DNA says i'm of middle eastern descent if you go further back. My haplogroup is extremely uncommon in modern Europe.

I haven't spent a lot of time looking at it. Here's the basics (mostly, I'm a neanderthal).

 

[Homercidal]

"More Neanderthal variants then 97% of customers"...

Captain Cavemaaaaaaaan!

 

[passedpawn]

"More Neanderthal variants then 97% of customers"...

Captain Cavemaaaaaaaan!

Haha, I know. I swear I don't have a giant sloping forehead.

 

[dmtaylor]

Haha, I know. I swear I don't have a giant sloping forehead.

No... more like "short, stocky, and freezes well".

 

[passedpawn]

I might freeze well. Never considered that.

 

[m00ps]

For a second, my mind saw "Paternal: RDWHAHB"

interesting stuff. I dunno about you guys, but I don't want to know my ancestry. But then again, I'm immortal

 

[DemonsRun]

When I first used Ancestry.com for building my family tree there were some other users that were adamant that I was not related to them, and because the way Ancestry crowd sources info these people were then very angry about all the others using my family tree to show a family relation to them. It went so far as to they threatened legal action demanding I remove my family tree (not sure what they would actually do, but their emails were escalating). So I took the Ancestry.com DNA test, and they were the first to pop up in the results as cousins.

Not a single response since I sent a "Howdy Cuz!" email to them

After that I went ahead and did the NatGeo DNA tests for fun.
Ancestry will give you you more recent family history (ethnic breakdown - past few thousand years)
NatGeo will show ancient family migrations 70,000-5,000 year view

Neither gave a full gene breakdown that could then be used for medical like 23and me used to do.

I may try 23and me and then get a full download of the result and try Promethease and SNpedia.

 

[Homercidal]

People are people
so how can it be
You and I should get along so awfully

-Depeche Mode

 

[NickTheGreat]

I don't like the idea of my dna being put into a database that can be used for who knows what purpose but then again I can be paranoid about stuff like that.

This should make you feel better

https://jasperandsardine.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/ancestry-com-nsa-tool-site-shares-dna-with-police/


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[bdogg171]

Yea, that's pretty paranoid. You'll be dust soon enough, like the rest of us. Time to stop worrying.

I can't...I DON'T HAVE A HOMEBREW!! [emoji20]

 

[Curtis2010]

I don't like the idea of my dna being put into a database that can be used for who knows what purpose but then again I can be paranoid about stuff like that.

Could be these are all sham businesses collecting a massive DNA database for Big Brother.


Whatever you do, dont watch "Orphan Black".

 

[bdogg171]

Could be these are all sham businesses collecting a massive DNA database for Big Brother.


Whatever you do, dont watch "Orphan Black".

In order to create a "superflu" hmmmmmm.