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I didn't either. yet I'm still awake and will be for many, many more hours.

Me: NervouslyAwaitingMyFate
 
AncestryDNA
I can't in good conscience recommend them or similar institutions. Frankly, they are charlatans who just take general data (like your name) and one or two very coarse markers and draw conclusions from them which at best are commonplace and at worst are false.
I take it you are looking for a complete DNA-sequencing? If you'd just like the sequence itself, I might perhaps be able to pull a few strings at a DNA-research lab my office uses (can't make any promises but shall investigate what they'd be willing and able to do). If you'd like to know about your personal medical risks / desease marker genes, you'd have to contact a serious and specialized lab and that sort of analysis is quite expensive. The sequencing itself doesn't cost much, but comparing the data with all sorts of marker data takes time and a lot of work which makes it expensive.

dizzy
 
I can't in good conscience recommend them or similar institutions. Frankly, they are charlatans who just take general data (like your name) and one or two very coarse markers and draw conclusions from them which at best are commonplace and at worst are false.
I take it you are looking for a complete DNA-sequencing? If you'd just like the sequence itself, I might perhaps be able to pull a few strings at a DNA-research lab my office uses (can't make any promises but shall investigate what they'd be willing and able to do). If you'd like to know about your personal medical risks / desease marker genes, you'd have to contact a serious and specialized lab and that sort of analysis is quite expensive. The sequencing itself doesn't cost much, but comparing the data with all sorts of marker data takes time and a lot of work which makes it expensive.

dizzy

Yup, read about the flaky "science" just before my mom gave me the kit. What could I do? My mom wanted it done. Now I can't commit any murders unless I'm very, very careful. :lol:

They did provide my raw data and I was considering this place:

https://www.xcode.life

Any comments on them?
 
Huh. I thought I'd posted this a little earlier, but it was still in my quick reply after restarting my PC:

Floaty.
 
Any comments on them?
At a first glance they don't look all that bad but a closer analysis of their site reveals that they offer genetic analysis of character traits and intelligence. That's pretty nonsensical. These traits are mainly a matter of education and genes come into play only very vaguely and marginally.
They also offer a gene test on Altzheimer, Osteoporosis or age related macula degeneration which is genuine fraud since no such tests exist yet and you have three guesses why age related macula degeneration is called age related and not congenital... And Osteoporosis is caused by malnourishment (a lack of calcium) or a severe malfunction of both parathyroid glands, and certainly not by any genes.
Their breast cancer test might be usable but then only about 1/3 of bc patients carry the classical marker genes. In my family, for example, we have 4 cases and neither has the typical markers.
I wouldn't count that company as trustworthy.

hungry
 
At a first glance they don't look all that bad but a closer analysis of their site reveals that they offer genetic analysis of character traits and intelligence. That's pretty nonsensical. These traits are mainly a matter of education and genes come into play only very vaguely and marginally.
They also offer a gene test on Altzheimer, Osteoporosis or age related macula degeneration which is genuine fraud since no such tests exist yet and you have three guesses why age related macula degeneration is called age related and not congenital... And Osteoporosis is caused by malnourishment (a lack of calcium) or a severe malfunction of both parathyroid glands, and certainly not by any genes.
Their breast cancer test might be usable but then only about 1/3 of bc patients carry the classical marker genes. In my family, for example, we have 4 cases and neither has the typical markers.
I wouldn't count that company as trustworthy.

hungry

Thank you.

Do you have any suggestions that exist online?

I'd hate to get caught up in a fraud service that gives nonsensical information.
 
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