relievedbutsick
Left said forum. But this morning I haven't been feeling well.
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.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
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
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