Posted on 10/16/2019 7:09:14 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
They might find a particular marker or something that indicates you may have a predisposition or high likelihood of breast cancer or Alzheimer's.... What could go wrong?
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I got a call 20 years ago from a teenage girl looking for her dad and it turned out to be from an “indescretion” that I had in my youth before I was married. It was a bit of a shock and initially caused some conflict with my wife, but in the end it has all been very good. Out of our three kids she has the best heart and has given us the most joy along with three great grandkids.
We ought to mandate DNA testing at birth, at least, and allow the father the right for a no-fault divorce with no financial obligations, if the kid is not his.
Doing genealogy research it is vital that you do not move to the next link until you have confirmed the one before it (in other words do not assume that someone that shares your surname is related to you). But because record keeping was not always the best and fires in the court houses (where records were kept) you will often run into a brick wall and can not go back any further.
Here is where the DNA test comes into play, it allows you to jump over the brick wall and pick up the thread on the other side (by connecting with a distance cousin that has the missing information you don’t have).
It is a personal decision on if you should do a DNA test or not but as it has been shown, if anyone close to you has had the test ran, you are in their database.
Let’s assume that ancestry.com and similar companies are absolutely honest. The incentives for hackers to steal data, in the long run, are pretty high. When they steal your account number from a bank, you can change your account number. I don’t think there is a way today to change your DNA.
... not Boy Scouts
Takes 2 to tango...
Everyone from facebook, insurance, and cdc to other agencies corporations and advocacy groups want free access to your medical records (and Obama opened the gates to filing that information with government overlords).
I had mine done and liked it so much my daughter did it. I was able to confirm family stories about where we are from and I uploaded mine to the health database. I didn’t have markers for cancer but I did for high cholesterol and hypertension. I also have a “drunk” gene. I can easily become an alcoholic but since I don’t drink it won’t be a problem. I’m not a criminal and if there are any in my family and my genes help lock them up, that’s a good thing.
My daughter’s father was adopted so she was able to find out things about his side of the family that even he didn’t know. She found cousins she didn’t know she had from his genetics.
I’ve been very supportive of my wife from the beginning. We got married 21 years ago after meeting at our 25 year high school reunion. We had never dated in high school.
She told me about this before we got married. But it was pretty easy since I lived in Seattle and she lived in South Dakota and our entire courtship was 850 emails and `$3500 in long distance calls. We shared absolutely everything.
And this new son can almost be compared to a son coming back from a POW camp to be reconciled to his family. I’ve simply gained another step son, and the grand kids have gained another fun uncle. :)
Side note. This whole thing made my wife’s brother a bit nervous. Apparently he really liked girls when he was younger. :)
My wife’s sister-in-law is my 29th cousin.
Read a report on a study a few years ago (wish I’d kept it) that a man’s DNA from resides in females they “knew” in the biblical sense. If true, it potentially skews the whole 23 and me process. Geesh - maybe God was right after all.
“she has got back conflicting results each time she sent in samples.”
My niece did it once. It came back that she’s a blue-eyed blonde with curly hair. She has almost black eyes, dark brown, extremely straight, hair.
“A insurance company would not legally be able to get your info from 23and me”
Unless the company has lobbyists in DC, and has no problem making a payment under the table to Joe Congressman, etc. We’ve learned over the last year that the word, “legally”, means absolutely nothing.
Are you naive ?
“A insurance company would not legally be able to get your info from 23and me and use it against you and also write insurance on another person who never used 23 and me and let them slide.”
23 and me will be SELLING it to your insurance company, proactively.
My understanding is that the DNA collected by Ancestry.com, 23 and Me, and other testing companies is secure and not used to solve crimes. Rather, LEO uses DNA “clearing houses” like Gedmatch, where people voluntarily upload their raw DNA to find relatives across multiple DNA testing companies.
I’m sure the information will eventually be abused. And who knows what new technology will be developed in the future to go back to your sample to find out more about you. I would assume they’re saving your sample for later.
“Are you naive ?”
I work in the health insurance business. Carriers are under strict state and federal laws.
They cannot use dna database info against you (if you did 23andme) and not someone else who never did 23andme.
If they get dna info they would require everyone to supply dna info.
I was right in the middle of one of those situations. A guy contacted me as I showed up as a close realtive when his Ancestry.com DNA test was posted... I helped him do the research as I’m a full-on member of Ancestry.. tracked down the birth father as my first cousin. He contacted my cousin, who then took the test himself to know for sure... and he was a parental match.
Currently, this type of data is probably not very useful to hackers or even the people wasting their money on it with notable exceptions brought up by people in this thread. But going forward it is not that far fetched to think that it might become useful to malevolent organizations, so you could definitely have a valid point. I can imagine scam artists using it to blackmail or manipulate others if they believe the info reveals a secret that others might want to keep quiet, or other clever ruses. Criminals can be very imaginitive.
It is probably beneficial to a womans' health to do this.
Yes, this can be detected by analyzing multiple tissue samples. It is not likely to turn up in a blood test, but it can show in biopsies that touch internal organs or subcutaneous skin. It may take a dozen samples to show the "anomalies".
We still don’t know all the damage Obamacare has done or has yet to do.
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