DNA testing ?

[HHP]

Originally Posted by Herb Hunter

Are you looking for genetic data of medical significance or general heritage information?

A few years ago, I sent a swab of my cheek to The National Geographic Geographic Project and it will come as no surprise to some that the results indicate that I’m 2.3% Neanderthal (above average for a bloke not born in Africa). I’m proud of my hominin ancestry as I’m also 2% Denisovan.

Said project allows you to submit DNA anonymously.

I'm afraid mine would show I came from the Romulan Empire.

[Herb Hunter]

Originally Posted by 1neeto

[emoji23] Yeah I’m quite the mutt! ...

Only certain populations in Africa could be considered pure but in the end, we are all Africans.

[Murphy Slaw]

Originally Posted by amyFB

"...By submitting User Provided Content on any of the Websites, you grant Ancestry and its Group Companies a perpetual, transferable, sublicenseable, worldwide, royalty-free, license to host, store, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to create derivative works of, and otherwise use User Provided Content submitted by you to the Websites, to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered..."

What does that even say ?

[Herb Hunter]

Originally Posted by HHP

I'm afraid mine would show I came from the Romulan Empire.

With your sense of humor, could you possibly be of Romulan descent? Aren't they a rather surly lot?

[Herb Hunter]

Originally Posted by Murphy Slaw

What does that even say ?

Loosely translated it means:

We can do whatever we want with your DNA code.

I suppose if they, one day, clone you; you can forget about suing.

[Tico]

I'd like to know the path my ancestors took out of Africa, but I won't do it.
To me it's not worth the risks.

There are pricing tiers.
Why? you ask.
The lowest price requires you sign away rights to your personal DNA information so the company can sell it to employers, insurance companies, data-mining corporations, anyone.
Got a genetic marker for developing a major (read expensive) disease?
Bummer.
Think a company is going to hire you?
Think you can get affordable individual health insurance policy?
Think again.

The highest price for this DNA testing buys you what they claim is the most privacy, but even then I'm skeptical.
Recently Experian, that monster credit-rating agency, had a massive data breach.
SSN, birthdate, etc. of 143 million people exposed:
http://www.latimes.com/business/tech...907-story.html

Shall I give away my most intimate, personal, and sensitive DNA data to be used as a weapon against me?
No thanks.

[HHP]

Originally Posted by Herb Hunter

With your sense of humor, could you possibly be of Romulan descent? Aren't they a rather surly lot?

Could be genetically Romulan but raised on the planet that originated the galactic fart joke.

[RP]

Jeff Rossen did an interesting test of three popular DNA tests using three identical triplets with different last names. SPOILER ALERT Results were very accurate based on consistency as well as each test identifying the 100% match among the triplets....

TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen and the Rossen Reports team enlisted identical triplet sisters from California — Kaeli, Kelsey and Korrie — to try kits from three popular companies: AncestryDNA, 23andMe, and MyHeritage.

[HHP]

Originally Posted by RP

Jeff Rossen did an interesting test of three popular DNA tests using three identical triplets with different last names. SPOILER ALERT Results were very accurate based on consistency as well as each test identifying the 100% match among the triplets....

TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen and the Rossen Reports team enlisted identical triplet sisters from California — Kaeli, Kelsey and Korrie — to try kits from three popular companies: AncestryDNA, 23andMe, and MyHeritage.

"The tests revealed a genetic propensity of the parents to give kids pretentious names starting with the same letter"

[Scott O]

I just got a kit for $9.99 off Amazon and it is spot on. I'm 1/3 Caveman, 1/3 Pirate, and 1/3 Bills Mafia.

[HHP]

Originally Posted by Scott O

I just got a kit for $9.99 off Amazon and it is spot on. I'm 1/3 Caveman, 1/3 Pirate, and 1/3 Bills Mafia.

For $9.99, I'm surprised they went deeper than "homonid"

[amyFB]

Originally Posted by amyFB

I was just at their site reading up on the privacy provisions they have in place, http://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/Pri...stryDNATesting, and couldn't find the disclaimer that Rudals referenced.

... buried in the small print link at the very bottom of the webpage, "terms and conditions" .....this little gem of a section called "USER PROVIDED CONTENT":

"...By submitting User Provided Content on any of the Websites, you grant Ancestry and its Group Companies a perpetual, transferable, sublicenseable, worldwide, royalty-free, license to host, store, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to create derivative works of, and otherwise use User Provided Content submitted by you to the Websites, to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered..."

..

Murphyslaw asked "what does that even mean?"

if you post it, any kind of 'it', your rights to use it as you wish are extended to ancestry.com so that they can use it as they wish - without ever telling you what , why, where - from the moment of upload on into the future forever and ever more til the end of time.

[SMan]

No interest at all in DNA testing. I'd probably show from another solar system or something.

[HodgdonExtreme]

Originally Posted by Rudals

It'd be funny if I turn out to be part Mongolian, Chinese, and Japanese when our genealogy records do not indicate so. Our family, like many other Korean families, have kept a record, on a book, on who beget who dating back to...I don't know...kinda like the Bible except probably longer.

There is a very significant chance you have Ghengis Khan's blood in your veins. I've read a number of reports that indicate somewhere between 5% and 15% of all men on earth are descendants of Ghengis!

I haven't seen the percentage breakdown based on geography, but I assume asians have a higher chance of relation to the Mongols than non-asians.