23andme dna test

[Anonymous]

Don’t pay a company to take and do what they please with your DNA. I can’t fathom how many people willingly and happily give private companies the most private of personal data. You have no idea if or when (and let’s be honest, when is the likeliest) your personal genome data will be leaked or hacked or sold to a third party.

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Anonymous wrote:My younger daughter looks very different from me and my husband as well as our older daughter. When I am out with her (and not my husband and older daughter), I keep getting asked if my husband is Italian/Spanish/Indian because of how my daughter looks. It’s making me want to take a 23andme dna test to see what my ancestry is. Has anyone else been inspired to take an ancestory test based on a similar situation and is 23andme the best test? TIA.

23 and Me is considered the mos TV accurate test for ancestry, but it’s not 100% accurate. My ancestry percentages have changed a bit overtime as they’ve refined their data. They are continuing to refine their data.

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Anonymous wrote:My sister is a short, curly hair brunette in a family of tall blondes. When we were kids we teased her that she was adopted. She recently did one of those dna tests because she was convinced our dad wasn't her father. She is the spitting image of my father's great aunt. Genetics are weird. My other sister did the test, too, and they are full siblings.

My son looks like no one in our immediate family, but is a Xerox of his great grandfather.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t pay a company to take and do what they please with your DNA. I can’t fathom how many people willingly and happily give private companies the most private of personal data. You have no idea if or when (and let’s be honest, when is the likeliest) your personal genome data will be leaked or hacked or sold to a third party.

Who cares? What are they going to do with it?

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Anonymous wrote:My younger daughter looks very different from me and my husband as well as our older daughter. When I am out with her (and not my husband and older daughter), I keep getting asked if my husband is Italian/Spanish/Indian because of how my daughter looks. It’s making me want to take a 23andme dna test to see what my ancestry is. Has anyone else been inspired to take an ancestory test based on a similar situation and is 23andme the best test? TIA.

Do people really do that? That just sounds rude. Or is this normal?

Yes! I am almost all Irish, but family roots are "dark Irish". I tan SO easily and did even more so when I was a kid. If I was out with one parent people would regularly ask if my other parent was Mexican or Puerto Rican. My own DH asked if I was Mexican or Greek when we first met in the summertime. Now we have two DDs- one brown eyes, brown hair that is already super tan just from the last couple weeks of sun and her sister is a red head with fair skin and bright green eyes. Genetics are weird.

Genetics are very, very strange. I have a pale, blond, blue eyed father who has british isles/scandinavian ancestry. My moms family hails from the south part of Germany and are definitely on the more olive complected side and tan super super easily. My sister and I look so similar people mistake us for each other. I used to get a good laugh after I had graduated high school and she still had her high school job at a coffee shop. I popped in a couple of time when she wasn't there and all the staff was sooo confused. Our hair color is exactly the same, eye color is the same, similar builds and facial features....BUT we do have one difference - skin tone! I am super pale and my sister is olive complected and gets super tan in the summer. Not me, sigh....

Same with me and my sister! Same face, even mirror imaged asymmetry. Same eyes. Same body. Same hair texture. But she has low contrast olive skin and light brown hair and I have high contrast pale skin and dark dark hair.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t pay a company to take and do what they please with your DNA. I can’t fathom how many people willingly and happily give private companies the most private of personal data. You have no idea if or when (and let’s be honest, when is the likeliest) your personal genome data will be leaked or hacked or sold to a third party.

Who cares? What are they going to do with it?

NP. Sell it to pharmaceutical companies, for one. They can use it to develop drugs for orphan diseases (good) and engage in price gouging à la pharma bro (bad), or at the worst, develop medications that do evil, like an “anti-gay” therapeutic or a medication that erases efficacy of birth control or the morning after pill. You have no say whether your personal information is sold or leaked or stolen and used for good or for bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t pay a company to take and do what they please with your DNA. I can’t fathom how many people willingly and happily give private companies the most private of personal data. You have no idea if or when (and let’s be honest, when is the likeliest) your personal genome data will be leaked or hacked or sold to a third party.

Who cares? What are they going to do with it?

NP. Sell it to pharmaceutical companies, for one. They can use it to develop drugs for orphan diseases (good) and engage in price gouging à la pharma bro (bad), or at the worst, develop medications that do evil, like an “anti-gay” therapeutic or a medication that erases efficacy of birth control or the morning after pill. You have no say whether your personal information is sold or leaked or stolen and used for good or for bad.

It could also be used to deny your grandchildren health insurance or charge them more based on info found. You are making the decision to do it for your descendants and relatives.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t pay a company to take and do what they please with your DNA. I can’t fathom how many people willingly and happily give private companies the most private of personal data. You have no idea if or when (and let’s be honest, when is the likeliest) your personal genome data will be leaked or hacked or sold to a third party.

Who cares? What are they going to do with it?

NP. Sell it to pharmaceutical companies, for one. They can use it to develop drugs for orphan diseases (good) and engage in price gouging à la pharma bro (bad), or at the worst, develop medications that do evil, like an “anti-gay” therapeutic or a medication that erases efficacy of birth control or the morning after pill. You have no say whether your personal information is sold or leaked or stolen and used for good or for bad.

It could also be used to deny your grandchildren health insurance or charge them more based on info found. You are making the decision to do it for your descendants and relatives.

THIS. Some of the genealogy companies are already expanding into drug development or partnering directly with pharmaceutical companies to develop specific drugs. One fear is they will amalgamate all of this DNA data that people keep giving them (paying to give them!) which will enable them to develop drugs that one day me only be available to people who need then only if those people will sign away their genome data rights to the company in order to be tracked and be forced to purchase drugs from that company that wants to “own” their data.

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Anonymous wrote:You should test her, not you.

I wonder if there was a baby mix up at the hospital?

I listen to many DNA podcasts. Sadly there are many stories about this, and it's what I thought of when I first read the post.

OP, you didn't go through IVF did you?

I did not go through IVF and had a vaginal birth. She's mine.

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Anonymous wrote:My younger daughter looks very different from me and my husband as well as our older daughter. When I am out with her (and not my husband and older daughter), I keep getting asked if my husband is Italian/Spanish/Indian because of how my daughter looks. It’s making me want to take a 23andme dna test to see what my ancestry is. Has anyone else been inspired to take an ancestory test based on a similar situation and is 23andme the best test? TIA.

Do people really do that? That just sounds rude. Or is this normal?

Why in the world would that be rude? People regularly ask what people’s background is because, ya know, we live in a global, multi cultural society and we all are curious about each other & find it fascinating how our blended backgrounds emerge in both expected & unexpected ways.

As someone who looks "exotic" (blech, men love to say this to me) despite being 100% white and having a blonde blue eyed mother and blonde blue eyed kids, please don't comment on someone's ethnicity unless they have brought it up. In fact, here's a very important life lesson that you may be learning better late than never: don't, under any circumstances, comment on someone's appearance for any reason. There's really no need! If you're that starved for conversation topics, talk about the weather.

You sound fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t pay a company to take and do what they please with your DNA. I can’t fathom how many people willingly and happily give private companies the most private of personal data. You have no idea if or when (and let’s be honest, when is the likeliest) your personal genome data will be leaked or hacked or sold to a third party.

Who cares? What are they going to do with it?

NP. Sell it to pharmaceutical companies, for one. They can use it to develop drugs for orphan diseases (good) and engage in price gouging à la pharma bro (bad), or at the worst, develop medications that do evil, like an “anti-gay” therapeutic or a medication that erases efficacy of birth control or the morning after pill. You have no say whether your personal information is sold or leaked or stolen and used for good or for bad.

JW, a company like Be the Match or something similar that has your DNA on file for bone marrow patients doesn't sell your info, right? Because I have done those a few times but never 23&Me or whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t pay a company to take and do what they please with your DNA. I can’t fathom how many people willingly and happily give private companies the most private of personal data. You have no idea if or when (and let’s be honest, when is the likeliest) your personal genome data will be leaked or hacked or sold to a third party.

Who cares? What are they going to do with it?

NP. Sell it to pharmaceutical companies, for one. They can use it to develop drugs for orphan diseases (good) and engage in price gouging à la pharma bro (bad), or at the worst, develop medications that do evil, like an “anti-gay” therapeutic or a medication that erases efficacy of birth control or the morning after pill. You have no say whether your personal information is sold or leaked or stolen and used for good or for bad.

JW, a company like Be the Match or something similar that has your DNA on file for bone marrow patients doesn't sell your info, right? Because I have done those a few times but never 23&Me or whatever.

No. Be the Match is a nonprofit. Genealogy sites are for profit. They have partners and third party accessors to your data.

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Anonymous wrote:My younger daughter looks very different from me and my husband as well as our older daughter. When I am out with her (and not my husband and older daughter), I keep getting asked if my husband is Italian/Spanish/Indian because of how my daughter looks. It’s making me want to take a 23andme dna test to see what my ancestry is. Has anyone else been inspired to take an ancestory test based on a similar situation and is 23andme the best test? TIA.

Do people really do that? That just sounds rude. Or is this normal?

Why in the world would that be rude? People regularly ask what people’s background is because, ya know, we live in a global, multi cultural society and we all are curious about each other & find it fascinating how our blended backgrounds emerge in both expected & unexpected ways.

As someone who looks "exotic" (blech, men love to say this to me) despite being 100% white and having a blonde blue eyed mother and blonde blue eyed kids, please don't comment on someone's ethnicity unless they have brought it up. In fact, here's a very important life lesson that you may be learning better late than never: don't, under any circumstances, comment on someone's appearance for any reason. There's really no need! If you're that starved for conversation topics, talk about the weather.

You sound fun.

And you sound like you have no idea how manners work.

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Anonymous wrote:My sister is a short, curly hair brunette in a family of tall blondes. When we were kids we teased her that she was adopted. She recently did one of those dna tests because she was convinced our dad wasn't her father. She is the spitting image of my father's great aunt. Genetics are weird. My other sister did the test, too, and they are full siblings.

My son looks like no one in our immediate family, but is a Xerox of his great grandfather.

I LOLed at the word Xerox. That's a throwback

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Anonymous wrote:My younger daughter looks very different from me and my husband as well as our older daughter. When I am out with her (and not my husband and older daughter), I keep getting asked if my husband is Italian/Spanish/Indian because of how my daughter looks. It’s making me want to take a 23andme dna test to see what my ancestry is. Has anyone else been inspired to take an ancestory test based on a similar situation and is 23andme the best test? TIA.

Do people really do that? That just sounds rude. Or is this normal?

Why in the world would that be rude? People regularly ask what people’s background is because, ya know, we live in a global, multi cultural society and we all are curious about each other & find it fascinating how our blended backgrounds emerge in both expected & unexpected ways.

As someone who looks "exotic" (blech, men love to say this to me) despite being 100% white and having a blonde blue eyed mother and blonde blue eyed kids, please don't comment on someone's ethnicity unless they have brought it up. In fact, here's a very important life lesson that you may be learning better late than never: don't, under any circumstances, comment on someone's appearance for any reason. There's really no need! If you're that starved for conversation topics, talk about the weather.

You sound fun.

As do you. -np.