I have decided to get genotyped by 23andME and have a little vial ready to take my spit and turn it into As, Ts, Gs and Cs at home. Unlike gloom&doom merchants Navigenics 23andME are emphasizing 4 different things you can do with your DNA:
Ancestry: I will finally find out if I really am part eskimo...
Familial Inheritance (several HT family members decided to do it as a family christmas gift to ourselves): do I really have my fathers ears?
Disease Risk: well, insert doom&gloom here I guess... except that my family is pretty healthy so I am not expecting much.
Phenotypic Predispositions: I have just started running in the last few years and am really interested to know if I have long distance running snps. Actually, this is something I wish I had known years ago but I guess better late than never.
will let you know how it goes!
Monday, January 14, 2008
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Yes, keep us updated - I hear that 2 mls of saliva takes half an hour to produce!
I agree that Navigenics is downright gloomy. Their whole schtick is to charge $2500, genotype you to find out which of 400 diseases you might be predisposed to, and then tell you that you should minimize the chances of succumbing to the disease by losing weight and eating healthy.
I much prefer 23 and me's approach - getting genotyped to find out important things such as whether or not you have the snp that allows you to smell asparagus in your own pee (although I maintain you don't really need to be genotyped to eat asparagus and test whether or not your pee smells funny).
Navigenics looks at 20 diseases, not 400.
I see this blog has been hit by an irony-challenged anonymous internet troll...
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