Last year I joined 23andme, for that cheap genetic analysis before the FDA might cut it off. I then decided that given various health problems, possibly psychosomatic, like a possible panic attack, I wasn't at all sure I wanted to even glance at health claims. Which a biologist friend says are mostly dubious anyway. I still haven't looked at those, but I finally logged in to update my credit card, and looked at the ancestry stuff.
maternal haplotype: most likely Ashkenazi Jew (yep)
paternal: Basque, Ireland (yep), or fringes of North Sea
global similarity: kind of whack. The bars imply a lot of similarity to everyone except non-Northern Africans. The actual numbers range from 67.7 to 63.5. I don't know if I can take this as suggesting no recent African ancestors.
ancestry labs: how does this even work? I get an obscure spreadsheet
ancestry finder: Not sure how this works. Shows far more chromosome 'coverage' for Eastern Europe than for Ireland, with no real indication I am Irish. I wonder if this is a function of who's signed up. Or most of Clan Sullivan emigrated to the US, since if I check the "show US" box that outstrips Eastern Europe.
Also, wow, a bunch of old messages from possible 4th or 5th cousins.
Hmm, drug sensitivity health data seems unlikely to alarm me... "caffeine: slow metabolizer. people with the slower version of the CYP1A2 enzyme who also drank at least two to three cups of coffee per day had a significantly increased risk of a non-fatal heart attack" Cute. Hmm, now I'm curious about my parents' genes. I guess I'd have to triangulate with my half-siblings or my father's surviving siblings.
antidepressant: typical. Atypical people have increased or greatly increased chance of remission, not less. Ditto for heroin: typical, and atypicals are more or even more likely to be addicted. Hmm, what about non-addictive people, who can smoke or dabble in drugs and then drop them?
Hey, it guessed my blood type.
Disease risks: bye!
No one reading this is gonna get why this userpic, huh.
See the
DW comments at http://mindstalk.dreamwidth.org/320585.html#comments
maternal haplotype: most likely Ashkenazi Jew (yep)
paternal: Basque, Ireland (yep), or fringes of North Sea
global similarity: kind of whack. The bars imply a lot of similarity to everyone except non-Northern Africans. The actual numbers range from 67.7 to 63.5. I don't know if I can take this as suggesting no recent African ancestors.
ancestry labs: how does this even work? I get an obscure spreadsheet
ancestry finder: Not sure how this works. Shows far more chromosome 'coverage' for Eastern Europe than for Ireland, with no real indication I am Irish. I wonder if this is a function of who's signed up. Or most of Clan Sullivan emigrated to the US, since if I check the "show US" box that outstrips Eastern Europe.
Also, wow, a bunch of old messages from possible 4th or 5th cousins.
Hmm, drug sensitivity health data seems unlikely to alarm me... "caffeine: slow metabolizer. people with the slower version of the CYP1A2 enzyme who also drank at least two to three cups of coffee per day had a significantly increased risk of a non-fatal heart attack" Cute. Hmm, now I'm curious about my parents' genes. I guess I'd have to triangulate with my half-siblings or my father's surviving siblings.
antidepressant: typical. Atypical people have increased or greatly increased chance of remission, not less. Ditto for heroin: typical, and atypicals are more or even more likely to be addicted. Hmm, what about non-addictive people, who can smoke or dabble in drugs and then drop them?
Hey, it guessed my blood type.
Disease risks: bye!
No one reading this is gonna get why this userpic, huh.
See the
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Try ancestry finder in ancestry labs if you haven`t.
I`m not very Finnish, but I seem to match most of Finland. Finding out my great-grandmother wasn't Ashkenazi was useful, though. Vaguely.
I think I messed up; what I called relative finder was ancestry finder (have edited to fix), and I hadn't looked at relative finder.