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Just saw that amazon prime day has the health and ancestry test for $99 today. Highly recommend taking the test. I paid $179 recently. I found out alot of interesting info from mine, JMHO
Just saw that amazon prime day has the health and ancestry test for $99 today. Highly recommend taking the test. I paid $179 recently. I found out alot of interesting info from mine, JMHO
Once you accept your pedigree is "mutt" (something I accepted long ago despite my illustrious Investment Banking career) and you've made piece with the notion you're going to die (eventually, of something) to my mind these tests are of minor value to me. Indeed, most likely more a source of angst than enlightenment.
I can certainly see, however, the valuable aggregate data gleaned for Society.
I can also appreciate how my viewpoint is most likely in the minority. But why should this subject be any different from any number of other topics where that is the case...
There's a commercial on tv and some woman is saying that she's 1/10 American Indian. They have her surrounded by Indian artifacts and she's thrilled about this.....why
hahahaha, I bet she wont be smiling if and when "they" come knocking on her door, looked for her cousin who left some DNA at a crime scene, who isnt a suspect , but just a person of interest we would like to speak to.hahahahShe's thrilled because she's being paid to be in a commercial.
Some people are interested in their genetic heritage. We just did our tests, I sent a short summary to DW's siblings and they're very excited. Her family doesn't have much knowledge of their ancestry and this sheds some light where there was none 'til now.
That is what we both did.If you go ahead with it, most services let you download the data and you can have it analyzed at other places.
For example, for $5, Promethease will generate a pretty extensive report based on current research.
I did this with the data from Ancestry.com ($99) and it was fascinating, albeit fairly technical.
In case the cost is an issue, you can get a free DNA test here, by filling out surveys, which apparently take an hour or two. I haven't participated, but I'm intrigued, since I believe our overall medical understanding could be significantly improved, by gathering and analyzing DNA and disease risk statistically, when combined with other factors (environment, diet, etc, etc). But enough samples are needed to do this, since there are so many variables. The downside risk of sharing this is you are providing access to very personal information.
Just saw that amazon prime day has the health and ancestry test for $99 today. Highly recommend taking the test. I paid $179 recently. I found out alot of interesting info from mine, JMHO
Once you accept your pedigree is "mutt" (something I accepted long ago despite my illustrious Investment Banking career) and you've made peace with the notion you're going to die (eventually, of something) to my mind these tests are of minor value to me. Indeed, most likely more a source of angst than enlightenment.
I think it is fine to say they are of minor value to you. But, for some of us they are quite valuable. I have tested at both Ancestry and 23andme.
The testing was invaluable to me as it enabled me to identify my deceased birthfather. I am an adoptee. I started searching for my birthmother in the 1970s. It took a long time to find her but I eventually found her about 20 years ago.
But, I couldn't find my birthfather. She had some information about him, but I couldn't find him despite checking various databases and online sources. I had accepted that I would never find him and recognized at some point that he was likely deceased (she is alive but in her late 80s now).
But, then I found out DNA testing was being used to help find birthfamily. I got my DNA information on Ancestry and started looking at my matches and who they were related to. I quickly found a number of matches on Ancestry all descended from a particular couple. I started searching trees of all of their descendants. It took me not very long at all to find my birthfather. Unfortunately, he died a number of years ago but it was very meaningful to me to find this information.
So, for me this completed a search that I started over 40 years ago.