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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are both Jewish and did Natera and they messed it up. We asked a dozen times and provided a prescription for them to only test my husband for what I had, and they tested him for everything and did not even order the panel specifically for Ashkenazic Jews. As such, one of the things I carry he did not get tested for. Then they somehow uploaded his results to my profile and deleted mine (luckily I had mine saved).

It was a complete nightmare. In addition, during my required genetic screening meeting to discuss my results, the geneticist informed me that I was also at a higher risk of Parkinson’s based NOT on my ethnicity or family history but because I was a carrier of something. My grandmother has parkinson’s. So you can imagine how that made me feel—like yeah, I carry this disease associated with Jews and also associated with parkinson’s which is also associated with Jews. Connect the dots. I’ve gotten over it but it does make parkinson’s feel like an inevitability.

I was super pissed they informed me of that; I’d chosen to do Natera and not 23 and me or something similar explicitly to avoid being told that I was more likely to get xyz. This was ultimately the reason why my husband requested to only get screened for what I tested positive.

Anyways, I’m still pretty mad about it, three years later. [/quote]

Other than the funny business with the uplaoding and deleting etc. not understanding why you are mad????[/quote]

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