Ancestry.com - DNA KIT

[bigfug]

My grandmother was talking to her brother, my great-uncle, who just got one done. Their parents were immigrants from Mexico, my grandmother never even spoke English till elementary school. Anyways, DNA test came back with no Hispanic blood, she couldn't remember all the results, but it did say 1/3 British.

 

[nofearfactor]

My grandmother was talking to her brother, my great-uncle, who just got one done. Their parents were immigrants from Mexico, my grandmother never even spoke English till elementary school. Anyways, DNA test came back with no Hispanic blood, she couldn't remember all the results, but it did say 1/3 British.

This...If I decided to do one, my wife wants us both to do it, then it sure wouldnt be from Ancestry.com.

 

[druryj]

How do we know this isn't some nefarious secret FBI program to build a national DNA database and get you to pay for it because Congress wont fund it?

We don't . We just have to have faith.

 

[Hobbes]

We don't . We just have to have faith. View attachment 83135

You're right.

It just seems odd that we have people who refuse to fill out a census survey, but don't think twice about sending their DNA to total strangers.

 

[CBarCRanch]

Send me a $100.00 and 4 or 5 good face pics and I can tell you about your ancestory.

 

[druryj]

My results are back!

Western European 34%
Irish 30%
Great Britain 28%
Scandinavian (Finland) 7%
African (Senegal) 1%

Dang.


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[HiredHand]

This. Cheap tests don't use very many markers, making false correlations more likely. These are not forensic-grade tests (which still occasionally incur false-positives), but they're being used for forensic purposes. Thanks, but no thanks.

Additionally: as medical science advances, we're learning to read DNA to determine relative rates of certain diseases. What happens when a security breach happens (have you noticed how many we've had lately), and your sequence ends up in the hands of your health insurance company?

Bingo! I can just see them finding a data source and running DNA just as an employer runs a background check. Nope...Nope...Nope.

Have you guys seen the science fiction movie Gattaca?