Have you ever had your DNA analyzed?

[Koch Ebola]

Well I had...read all about it.

https://stephenjaymorrisblog.tumblr.com/

[Cattledog]

1. Iam waiting on results.

[Croney]

2. Yes. It turned up a half-brother I don't need and don't want.

And will never agree to meet.

A Trumpster I've lived 74 years without, and will continue to happily live without.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. No I don't want the results shared with insurance companies and I don't trust them not to.

[2naSalit]

9. Exactly.

[JDC]

10. I agree

[redstatebluegirl]

11. If mine were shared it would show this:

Macular Degeneration
Heart Disease
Cancer
Alcoholism
High Blood Pressure
Thyroid Disease

Who would insure me?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. Who would insure you? England. Canada. Germany. Denmark.

The list goes on. There is one prominent country missing from the list.

[redstatebluegirl]

20. Which is why I won't quit working until I can get social security in the US.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Fortunately, my wife and I were not both unemployed at the same time.

One of us had employer health care, so we were covered. Just dumb luck. Such a relief to be on Medicare/medigap. This country really needs tax-paid universal health care.

I hope you leave the workforce when YOU want to.

[redstatebluegirl]

22. I have until late 2020, I am hoping my funding holds out that long.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. Cool. You get to celebrate retirement AND a new Democratic president at the same time.

[Laffy Kat]

12. Bingo.

There are laws on the books protecting your results from medical insurance companies (for now) but not so with life insurance companies. I do not think it is safe.

[Baltimike]

15. same here. nt

[Siwsan]

4. The CBC show 'Marketplace' just ran an interesting show on DNA heritage analysis

I had no plans to do this, before seeing the show, and now I have even less. They had identical twins send in saliva samples to 5 different companies. While some results were similar, a few almost identical, there were also some massive discrepancies.

They then went to (I think) Yale and talked to some 'computational biologists' at Yale. The explanations they gave were very interesting. It's all in the fine print.

So, keep in mind, if you send your sample to different places, or even the same place but after they've 'redone' their analysis, your results may differ. It's a lot of statistical analysis and best guess work.

Anyway, the video is still up: https://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/

[rso]

5. DNA

I did, and it was interesting, though definitely not indispensable. I did locate several distant relatives,but again, no biggie.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. I did, FWIW, nothing turned up that I was not expecting.

It show more scandinavian heritage than I thought. Otherwise western european, British Isles.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I did. It was kind of interesting, but no real surprises.

The results were pretty much what I already knew. There was a bit of Swedish in the mix that I didn't know about, but since there's a whole lot of Norwegian, it's not surprising that we got a Swede in there somehow. The results also showed some British, Scots/Irish, German and French, all of which I was previously aware of. No long-lost relatives have turned up yet.

[2naSalit]

8. Nope. Not gonna. ...nt

[Freddie]

13. I did, no real surprises

Know I’m at least 25% British Isles as my paternal grandfather came over on the boat. Figured the rest was mostly German as, other than Grandpa, both sides have been in (largely German) Pennsylvania for many generations. My results came back 42% British Isles, 32% German and the rest “other European.”

[wishstar]

14. Funny and so true about some of the wacky DNA analysis results you can get

I have had my DNA analyzed by Ancestry, Family tree DNA, Gedmatch and My Heritage.

Ancestry has recently completed their third iteration of analysis since I first got tested and it seems by far the most accurate. (as well as the most helpful site for matching cousins and researching genealogy. )

The discrepancies in my results included one site that said I had Ashkenazi ancestry, while another said Sephardic and others said zero. One said Northern African ancestry while others said zero. One showed Iberian that others didn't show and none of them had showed any French ancestry until the last version of Ancestry's analysis showed 6% French when before it had Asian, Caucasus and Middle Eastern but now has zero for that. But I have compiled extensive family tree info back over 300 years on my Italian side, and over 500 years on my Northern European side that match Ancestry's latest analysis results. No question that some of the DNA analysis on some of the sites has been pure speculative junk. I do have documented Native American ancestry from genealogical research and public records, but being many generations back, only the Gedmatch analyses picked up any Native American.

[Ron Obvious]

16. Only if I kept strict control of the results

Probably not even then. I don't think they're all that reliable, and frankly I wouldn't want to know about genetic predispositions anyway.

[DFW]

17. My brother told me about a pair of identical twins

They got their DNA tested at 5 different services and got TEN different results!!!

[Little Star]

18. I'm perfectly happy with my family tree results......

They tell me everything I need to know.