DNA ancestry testing

Tephnos · 15 Oct 2016 at 21:06

Hikari Kisugi said:
Folic acid isn't B12....
I'd certainly see medical advice.

(-edit, it's been years since I looked at the B vitamin interactions, but I though there was something about large doses of the folate masking the deficiency in B12, thus making the condition actually worse, but ho-hum, as I say it has been years)

Specifically, it's C677T and A1298C of which I'm heterozygote for both, which is apparently rather unusual. Both combined can impact folate production significantly, so my B12 and homocysteine levels would be impacted quite badly.

UTmaniac · 15 Oct 2016 at 21:17

Tosno said:
Like 1 in 10 men are rising another man's child without realising.

Didn't this get revised to 1 in 50 around April this year?

Brizzles · 15 Oct 2016 at 21:34

Doesn't Jeremy Kyle do this for free ?

Tosno · 15 Oct 2016 at 21:42

UTmaniac said:
Didn't this get revised to 1 in 50 around April this year?

1% in some studies to as many as 30%

StoutMeister · 15 Oct 2016 at 21:51

Sutters said:
i've done one, found out my dads ancestors arrived in boats in 1066.

Didn't your surname reveal that?

LeeUK · 15 Oct 2016 at 23:21

My sister has been doing the family tree stuff and has traced back my mothers side right back to early 1600s.

jsmoke · 22 Mar 2021 at 11:21

Does anybody know the best test to take, there are at least 3 main ones but they seem to give different results ?

Diddums · 22 Mar 2021 at 11:25

Not in a billion years am I giving my DNA to these companies. No chance.

jsmoke · 22 Mar 2021 at 11:32

Diddums said:
Not in a billion years am I giving my DNA to these companies. No chance.

Why not?

dlockers · 22 Mar 2021 at 12:11

Diddums said:
Not in a billion years am I giving my DNA to these companies. No chance.

100%

jsmoke said:
Why not?

Who knows what they could do with it. I could end up being the pattern part for an army of droids if Star Wars is anything to go by. The benefit in no way outweighs any risk, hyperbole or not. Private companies are not to be trusted with this data.

jsmoke · 22 Mar 2021 at 12:17

dLockers said:
100%

Who knows what they could do with it. I could end up being the pattern part for an army of droids if Star Wars is anything to go by. The benefit in no way outweighs any risk, hyperbole or not. Private companies are not to be trusted with this data.

Would you not be honoured to have a droid army modelled after you?

Kenai · 22 Mar 2021 at 12:19

dLockers said:
I could end up being the pattern part for an army of droids

I like the modesty

mmj_uk · 22 Mar 2021 at 12:20

They probably just spin people a fairy tale to make them feel good about the service and then flog your DNA sequence to anyone waving money at them, probably Facebook and the Chinese laboratory that manufactured COVID-19.

I think the best part about it all is probably how a lot of idiots will have been caught for crimes when the company inevitably pass their DNA on to the police.

Diddums · 22 Mar 2021 at 12:44

mmj_uk said:
the Chinese laboratory that manufactured COVID-19

Hahaha, you really are the gift that keeps on giving

dlockers · 22 Mar 2021 at 12:45

mmj_uk said:
They probably just spin people a fairy tale to make them feel good about the service and then flog your DNA sequence to anyone waving money at them, probably Facebook and the Chinese laboratory that manufactured COVID-19.

I think the best part about it all is probably how a lot of idiots will have been caught for crimes when the company inevitably pass their DNA on to the police.

Even more hysterical is when the relatives of the criminal are the ones that inadvertently spill the beans!

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ect-identified-using-dna-family-tree-website/

Diddums · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:03

jsmoke said:
Why not?

'Cos I'm not keen on being a product. Even if it's 100% innocent now, at some point, someone with questionable morals will be put in a position of power and someone else will offer them a little brown envelope to hand over my DNA data and God only knows where it'll end up.

I'll play it safe rather.

XeNoN89 · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:15

jsmoke said:
Does anybody know the best test to take, there are at least 3 main ones but they seem to give different results ?

23andme for medical details, ancestry for tracing your relatives

Longbow · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:18

Diddums said:
Not in a billion years am I giving my DNA to these companies. No chance.

Whilst I agree with the sentiment, you don't have to give them your details.

Richard - London · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:20

XeNoN89 said:
23andme for medical details, ancestry for tracing your relatives

Ive done both, and find 23andme is better for relatives

XeNoN89 · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:21

Richard - London said:
Ive done both, and find 23andme is better for relatives

It may have changed then, I know it wasn't quite as good a few years back but I guess they've worked on that