AncestryDNA kits -- experience? results?

[Anonymous]

Is anyone concerned about having your DNA public - and privacy elements?

[Anonymous]

Send your DNA to the LDS so they can continue with their proxy baptisms!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone concerned about having your DNA public - and privacy elements?

What can they really do with it? It's not like they can clone you.

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone concerned about having your DNA public - and privacy elements?

What can they really do with it? It's not like they can clone you.

Yet....

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone concerned about having your DNA public - and privacy elements?

What can they really do with it? It's not like they can clone you.

The problem is if you show a genetic predisposition to a health condition such as heart disease, diabetes, or cancer. How do you know that someone isn't keeping a database that matches your name to those conditions? The next time you sign up for health insurance or life insurance, you are denied because they found you linked to potential health problems in the future. Another issue might be that your DNA winds up in crime databases, even though you've never committed a crime. One day, your name pops up in connection to a crime. Perhaps it's because you committed the crime, or perhaps someone made a small error, or perhaps that one in a million chance that your DNA is a near match to someone else. That is the future that some people fear.

[Anonymous]

Would these tests be useful for an adopted person with no family history??

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Anonymous wrote:Would these tests be useful for an adopted person with no family history??

Part of the idea of AncestryDNA is that you might be able to find relatives who are also registered--helpful for people doing genealogy and also potentially for adoptees looking for biological relatives.

http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/10/21/4-tips-for-adoptees-using-ancestrydna-to-find-their-family/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would these tests be useful for an adopted person with no family history??

Yes. I am adopted. 23 and me helped with the medical side and I found two relatives with Ancestry. That's why I did it.

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone concerned about having your DNA public - and privacy elements?

What can they really do with it? It's not like they can clone you.

The problem is if you show a genetic predisposition to a health condition such as heart disease, diabetes, or cancer. How do you know that someone isn't keeping a database that matches your name to those conditions? The next time you sign up for health insurance or life insurance, you are denied because they found you linked to potential health problems in the future. Another issue might be that your DNA winds up in crime databases, even though you've never committed a crime. One day, your name pops up in connection to a crime. Perhaps it's because you committed the crime, or perhaps someone made a small error, or perhaps that one in a million chance that your DNA is a near match to someone else. That is the future that some people fear.

I thought the whole point of the obamacare was to guarantee everyone had to have access to health insurance whether they wanted it or not? No more denying people for pre-existing conditions. And the crime scene thing seems pretty far fetched for a government who has multiple agencies that don't share data. I think that's wishful thinking given the red tape and overall bureaucratic red tape the government inflicts upon us all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone concerned about having your DNA public - and privacy elements?

What can they really do with it? It's not like they can clone you.

The problem is if you show a genetic predisposition to a health condition such as heart disease, diabetes, or cancer. How do you know that someone isn't keeping a database that matches your name to those conditions? The next time you sign up for health insurance or life insurance, you are denied because they found you linked to potential health problems in the future. Another issue might be that your DNA winds up in crime databases, even though you've never committed a crime. One day, your name pops up in connection to a crime. Perhaps it's because you committed the crime, or perhaps someone made a small error, or perhaps that one in a million chance that your DNA is a near match to someone else. That is the future that some people fear.

I thought the whole point of the obamacare was to guarantee everyone had to have access to health insurance whether they wanted it or not? No more denying people for pre-existing conditions. And the crime scene thing seems pretty far fetched for a government who has multiple agencies that don't share data. I think that's wishful thinking given the red tape and overall bureaucratic red tape the government inflicts upon us all.

A.It is illegal to use information to deny insurance or coverage. Period.
B. These testing kits don't completely sequence your DNA-those are the very expensive kits. It uses segments.
C. Your info is safe in the way that your medical info is safe- whether it actually is or not. However, you really have no control over how things are hacked- your info is already out there.

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Anonymous wrote:I started as thread on this a while back and when I heard that enough people found it useless and generic I decided it wasn't worth the money. I am very curious to see what responses you get though because I do want to know if things have improved. My grandfather and grandmother were adopted so there are some questionmarks there that I would love to have answered.

OP here. I did do a search, but only one post came up. Sometimes the search function seems incomplete or wonky. Can you post the link to your thread?

Tip: In addition to the internal DCUM search function, try using Google. Type in "DCUM" and whatever search terms you want. I often get better results that way.

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Anonymous wrote:A few of my friends have used these to learn their genetic makeup, so my mom, DH, and I are going to give them a try too.

I'm just excited and want to hear about others' experiences. Have you discovered anything unexpected?

Well, I found out that my "Cherokee" heritage that the family talks about turned out to be African

My family, too. That's pretty common. It's acceptable in the US to be a little bit Native American, but until recently it was never acceptable to be a little bit black.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few of my friends have used these to learn their genetic makeup, so my mom, DH, and I are going to give them a try too.

I'm just excited and want to hear about others' experiences. Have you discovered anything unexpected?

Well, I found out that my "Cherokee" heritage that the family talks about turned out to be African

My family, too. That's pretty common. It's acceptable in the US to be a little bit Native American, but until recently it was never acceptable to be a little bit black.

My husband did 23 and Me and his mom did Ancestry. His mom said that they always talked about being part Native American, which I doubted since I was working on their family tree. The test showed only European-based results, and nothing listed under trace amounts. In the end though, it was useful for us to see where most of his genetics come from since his dad's family has been in the US since the 1600s while his mom's side was more in the early 1800s.

I took the Ancestry test last year and didn't expect much of a surprise. As far as I can go back, my family has always been from the same small region in a European country, and we didn't leave until my parents and I immigrated here. My results reflected that fact immediately.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I started as thread on this a while back and when I heard that enough people found it useless and generic I decided it wasn't worth the money. I am very curious to see what responses you get though because I do want to know if things have improved. My grandfather and grandmother were adopted so there are some questionmarks there that I would love to have answered.

OP here. I did do a search, but only one post came up. Sometimes the search function seems incomplete or wonky. Can you post the link to your thread?

Tip: In addition to the internal DCUM search function, try using Google. Type in "DCUM" and whatever search terms you want. I often get better results that way.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Its really interesting to see the "trace regions" I think this may go back 10,000 years. Took me from Western Europe to the Caucasus and Northern Africa. Thought I could have some Ashkenazi jewish DNA but the test said no.