Watch yours only half-match his. :p

:D

I watched a show awhile back that stated 1 out of 8 people are mistaken about who they identify as their genetic father.

If true, that means there are a whole lot of us here who would get that result.


LHC

In my random sampling of the population on which I obtain blood for HLA-typing (you get half from mom and half from dad) I find this number to be overexaggerated. Of course, we don't type fathers that are not available/involved, and populations in whom women have multiple children with different fathers may be the reason for that statistic....

So what your saying is liberals do not like your DNA strand.
Are you racist against their DNA ?

New trend #DontHateMyDNA

Well it seems if I denounce my white side I will be accepted if liberals take over....after all the white liberals all seem to hate the color of their own skin....oh wait I can identify as a man of color oh jeez am I having racial dysphoria.

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This company is a massive operation to collect genetic information then front load it into other collections databases. And it is doing all kinds of brute force science with your genetic information which it reserves the right to do as well as use your personal information whether you like it or not.

Keep in mind that one of the founders of 123andMe, Anne Wojcicki is/was married to Sergei Brin the founder of Google. Google of course collects data and stores that into folders with our ID on them indefinitely.

The interesting thing is pioneering facial recognition software can already tell if people are heterosexual, gay, conservative, liberal, their IQ, and criminal disposition. All just from 1 photo with high accuracy. In the very, very near future some people will or wont get a job interview (not that anyone will admit it but many already use online personality screens during the application process). Pair that with genome data and entire family trees might not get high end jobs, privileges (like home loans), health insurance, be denied military service ie 4F.

It would take a very engaged population to keep all of this in check. Based upon human history, being ruled in its entirety with the brief exception of America, Im concerned for the pro-freedom camp.

True Google analytics as ingenious as it is does exactly as you say today they sell our habitual interests of subjects and in turn we get ads this same data is used to drive consumers for the companies willing to pay for the data.....my wife was always amazed at how those damn ads seemed to read her mind....now she knows....the fear all should have is the use of this data for insight into better social engineering by political candidates and the government....sure it would make life easier in some ways but free choice will no longer be part of the equation and people will have no idea that everything they see and do is carefully staged from data of their own habitual online interests.

As far as 23 and me and the google connection this is terrifying scientist have already been able to manipulate DNA to a limited end and their is research funded by the DOD on DNA of a perfect soldier....I am reminded of the movie by Kurt Russell Soldier in which he was carefully selected and trained to be a superior soldier until the new soldiers who were genetically superior because of advances in gene manipulation.....imagine the end of mankind once a G-Nome and its myriad of combinations are decoded and can be recombined at will for whatever traits they desire.

Teloyears is an interesting DNA testing outfit:

https://www.teloyears.com/home/index.html

It can run your ancestry data, but it can also do one better which is measure the length of your telomeres, which are like the caps on the end of your shoelaces to keep them from fraying, but for your DNA strands.

Telomere length plays a considerable role in cell/organism aging.

One of the co-founders(DR Elizabeth Blackburn) of the company shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2009 for telomerace/telomere discovery and research.

She has a pretty solid book I’ve read:

https://www.amazon.com/Telomere-Effe...=UTF8&qid=&sr=


They also offer consulting services and supplements with a money back guarantee for lengthening telomeres over a 6 month period.

Pretty simple advice. But nice to have a potentially very worthwhile form of aging measurement.

Eat well, stay mobile and fit, get sufficient sound sleep, and reduce stress. Not rocket science.

But there’s legit science behind the telomere length/aging for various test species as well as a growing number of human studies.

It’s worth keeping an eye on.

Check out CRISPR.

Enzyme “knife” used to precisely cut out and replace genes.

In actual use for yoghurt yeast.

Can be used to turn off mosquito disease dissemination.

Expanding human potential for good could be limitless.

But of course the ability to weaponize CRISPR is a very real and legit fear.

Not just intentional weaponisation, but accidental grey goo.

Aglets. ;) I worked in a shoe store in junior high and high school.

The military has required servicemember DNA samples since the early 1990s.

Allegedly for identification of otherwise unknown remains, many resisted the requirement, suspecting that it would be data for Big Brother to use for any purpose he deemed necessary.

That suspicion has subsequently proven to be correct.

TR

Have US military DNA samples been used for criminal investigations?

It’s my understanding that with a few of the commercial DNA databases that a criminal suspect him/herself doesn’t necessarily need to have any DNA testing done, but if parents/siblings/children are tested and compared against crime scene evidence can be more than enough to incriminate suspects and compel DNA testing.

So i guess the issue goes beyond just trying to protect your own Genone from public scrutiny, but that of your entire bloodline.

I actually find it interesting the science is fascinating but wonder if the science is interfering with natural adaption that genes do when they evolve to survive....what will nature do in response to the acceleration nature will always find a way to survive even if it has to go through another ice age after volcanic eruptions etc.....and thousands of years it will.

Weaponization of it is a realistic fear and should cause pause when we think about genetically modified people being better at their purpose....the next step would be to control the nurture aspect so that their is no drift from intent. Finally but not least is this contradicting with our belief in a creator and the mystery of life?

ThanksGood point but if scientist are correct all DNA traces back to Mitochondrial Eve and Y Adam....the 2 parts of a Gene that stays relatively unchanged back to the beginning the rest of the Gene is only accurate for DNA to a 5th cousin due to recombination....it's the recombined.DNA that contains the majority of your ancestor and where a recessive trait would appear....when we do our own geneology we build an upside down pyramid from us as far back as possible Geneticist are the opposite the have traced all DNA back to a common ancestor in Mt Eve and Y Adam they trace it to these two and follow it's mutations to modern man.

Evolution theorist say we evolved from monkeys which inspires the question....why are their still monkeys?

The answer is in haplo groups all traced back to the Mitochondrial Eve the origin which still exists.....the group still exists because it has not left it's point of origin.....every group that left and settled in different climates changed diet etc......evolved from Group A.....I am still not convinced we evolved from chimps...