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DNA testing

Au Naturel

Au Naturel

Au Naturel
I am curious as to whether anyone else here has done DNA testing. I have my report from Dante Labs and it has a lot of interesting stuff in it. I also have a report from 23-and-Me. Neither of these are cheap. Having or not having a particular gene does not mean you will develop whatever the gene codes for; it just indicates more or less likely or average likelihood. It is kind of a fun rabbit hole to wander down.

Dante Labs is a whole genome sequencer, and I have downloaded my entire genome to my computer. Quite a few gigabytes.

23 and Me doesn't sequence your entire genome, but it checks the more popular genes. OTOH, it allows you to find family members, which Dante doesn't. It is how I found my biological family.

Both of these will test for the small number of genes positively identified as contributing to autism. It turns out I have one gene related to autism; however, there are conflicting ideas of what exactly it does.
 
I did one through SPARK SPARK

However, in this case, they don't release full genome data. They are looking for specific markers, and you either have them, or you don't. So, in my case, about 18 months after I sent in my sample, they simply said that I did not have the specific markers they were looking for. Not really helpful, in my case.
 
I've tried a few companies. AncestryDNA seems to give the most accurate results in terms of my ethnic composition. The results are certainly consistent with the paper trail.
 
An Ancestry DNA test has helped me assemble my family tree, especially since paper records for specific eras are almost nonexistent.
@Neonatal RRT was the Dante test helpful for making general health/lifestyle decisions? I see it mentions genetic predispositions.
 
Is it purely DNA?
I ask because my ADHD son lies to me, he even once stole coins out my bag. Does this test indicate someone may have criminal intent, and if so what can government advise to parents?
Out of curiosity what does this DNA test reveal?
 
Making more headway helping my distant relative who was adopted She is a detective by profession could not crack this puzzle of who she is Takes me a few minutes with basically same information. She treats the data as a puzzle with each piece needing to be an exact fit I treat the data as a maze with only one correct way through,
 
Now finding out my wife is also by DNA connected to this distant relative. My one question why did she approach me, apparently on her DNA two names came up I was one of them. So she asked for my help. I still do not know what her exact relationship is with me or with my wife. NT's drive me nuts ask specific questions they tend to give long winded answers.
 
These DNA testing companies have proven rather less than reliable and accurate (ie: identical twins receiving vastly different genealogical results) some percentage of the time, and I really do not relish paying to give my genome to a foreign company that has basically zero restrictions on what they can do with it...so no.
 
I had genetic testing by encouraging of a physician and discovered i have ehlers danlos, after many years of having connective tissue i problems, and the geneticist also said my results "indicates fragile x." Both of these conditions commonly co occur with autism. For the most part this information has been liberating, because in my mind the things i thought were wrong were so much worse than autism. But I would definitely have your doctor order the clinical test as well if you want to really get a full picture
 
I have to confess, as interesting as it is, regarding these commercial services, I have serious concern's about allowing this data to be held by people who we can't fully trust to treat it with the respect and privacy it should be given. Even ignoring the rather easy crime of simply stealing the data (a typical employee enabled crime), ever tempting with the money it could be worth, there's no knowing how that company could evolve and whom could eventually end up owning that data and how it may be used, even if the current leadership is trusted? This seems to be the way these sort of things tend to go, toward the gravitation of huge rewards and away from the realm of integrity.
 
Boogs said:
I have to confess, as interesting as it is, regarding these commercial services, I have serious concern's about allowing this data to be held by people who we can't fully trust to treat it with the respect and privacy it should be given. Even ignoring the rather easy crime of simply stealing the data (a typical employee enabled crime), ever tempting with the money it could be worth, there's no knowing how that company could evolve and whom could eventually end up owning that data and how it may be used, even if the current leadership is trusted? This seems to be the way these sort of things tend to go, toward the gravitation of huge rewards and away from the realm of integrity.
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Absolutely this. The lack of laws and security around this data, and the ability of the companies to sell it, is the main reason I advise against using these companies.
 
Wanting to know who I am and sort out a few puzzles, was our motive for Getting our DNA results, It did as intended.
 
Toirtis said:
Absolutely this. The lack of laws and security around this data, and the ability of the companies to sell it, is the main reason I advise against using these companies.
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Having being somewhat suspected as child of having autism, I suppose with masking I blended in well enough for my diagnosis to be echnored until teen years and then it was 'behaviour' more than red flags and so I fell through cracks, stopped smoking and seemed to be study/work back on track.
I suppose autism was taboo and societal reactions that if one could pass off without diagnosis, we did. Due to asylums and aba and past many never really disclosed status on career paths and this left a huge gap in research and diagnosis. Realising now how advanced these brain chips are, whether can read thoughts, detect lies and just in awe at progress very far in terms of understanding how brain works, a previous medical field unknown. But how much of this is invasive and can we trust, to what extent do we want governments/research/technology to dictate standards to us.
It's not just blame Americans, each country at times takes over a parents child and needs reminders on amendments protect individual and choice, such as teachers or choices over childs health and education and whether government has final say.
Also different aspects such as sexism and my rights to protect my daughter from sexism, unwanted attention and whether we think Catholic school solved that but limits her ability to freedom of education, career choices and whether I agree aspie girls stupid, created just for sex with male counterparts or whether we have vital input to offer society at large.

Then personal freedoms, like would asylum have right to read your mind if you injured yourself, society believes suicide to be wrong but I believe since world population evolved so slowly and ruins lives of others in process that for some of us it was only way out and would saved me years of torture. Now that I'm older and whatever information was sucked out of me it was always to benefit of others more than what I really had financial freedom to persue the career I wanted, unlimited and to feel sex was happiness that I had choice in and encompassed my pleasure such as also not being heartless, mindless incubator that just serves others who feel they are entitled. So for me youthenasia isn't necessarily medical as it involves mental health too.
But that's just one ways asylum could abuse such a technology under laws that claim to protect us, but seem more to fail to understand us, give us fair job access. Let alone the greed and corruption that some may see these tools as useful for.
But world was never free, never fair and since when was that ever going to change?
 
I had genetic testing. It said my BDNF secretion was poor and norepinephron was low. The stupid practitioner couldn't explain it.
 
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