Just curious as to what y'all have tried and your reviews. I'm thinking it would be cool to do/have.. Anyone tried the home tests? Are they worth it?
I often wonder if it is not a big ole conspiracy to get a genetic profile of everyone . . . .. but I have had several friends who seem to be happy with their results Rocket River
Are you talking about "seeing where your ancestors are from?" I think it's called 23andme. Someone posted that thread way back when. Also, ancestry has one too.
I have done 23andme (have also met Anne, the founder, a few times). Apparently, I am more Neanderthal than 99 % of all people. I've already told my wife that if I ever hit her over the head with a club and drag her into a cave, that is my excuse. I did it when they were still allowed to tell you the health risks as well (increased or decreased probabilities for certain diseases). What it tells me matches my family history of diseases, as far as I know it.
Ive done the 23andme. Speaking for myself only, it was a little underwhelming and very vague. Maybe in a couple decades there will be better information.
Got ancestry for Christmas present, and it was vague. Gave me some percentages, but would have liked more information, maybe even some genetic code would be nice. It was accurate though as it linked me up to some of my cousins without me giving it any family information. I would say that is a nice gift, but not a good purchase. That said, if there is a service out there that gives more information then that would be more interesting.
Done FTDNA and 23andme. 23andme is much more interesting. They give you all kinds of health info. FTDNA just looks for STR's, which are basically repeating errors specifically to match you with relatives but it doesn't give you any reports on your actual genome. 23andme gives you all sorts of interesting reports on increased disease/cancer risk and other health info. The reports are kind of vague, but interesting. Much more content at 23andme than any of the other services I've seen.
23andme is great. It was spot on on my ancestry (my parents are immigrants, so that's easy), & my boyfriend's was pretty amazingly accurate on what his family already knew, or always thought was the case. Every country/region was accounted for & in the expected percentages, like only off 2% of what he knew. His grandparents did ancestry.com more recently & the results do not match what they already knew about their history, except for areas that were very vague, like general european. I think a lot of their results are just straight wrong actually. Also, you get your entire genetic code on 23andme. Since they aren't allowed to give you very specific health risks (though they do tell you if you're a carrier for diseases), you can just download your code & use other tools online that translate it for you. You also can find your cousins! My boyfriend found out an author of a book he read is actually his 3rd cousin. They also tell you things like your eye-color & male-baldness & whatever. I recommend waiting til Christmas since they often do a sale. I got 1 kit for $99 & every additional was 20% off.
it's not a total scam , but when it comes to genetic disease probabilities, it is useless unless it is related to cancer .
thanks for the feedback.....do they only link you to relatives in their own pool of clients or do they have access to pools of other tests too?
