Anyone find something funny in their DNA test?
June 29th, 2019 at 9:52:29 AM permalink | |
Face Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 61 Posts: 3941 |
Exactly. Just wait until they start selling genetic markers to the health care industry. Has no one learned anything from Facebook? Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it. |
June 29th, 2019 at 11:05:46 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | The whole DNA thing is a scam. They get a main hit on your ancestry and make the rest up. Who will argue with them. This has been going on long before DNA. You pay some researcher to uncover your past and lo and behold, for your $300 you have minor royalty in your family! Boy are you happy.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 30th, 2019 at 5:18:14 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 | No one I know who has taken one has gotten their money's worth if they are supposed to tell you about your exciting ancestry. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
June 30th, 2019 at 11:05:58 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
The old way of doing it before DNA was, they would tell you who you were supposedly related to. It was always some cousin of a viscount in France or Germany in the 18th century, who were you to argue. You were delighted to have royalty in the fam.. I've never cared about that crap, what makes up my heritage is of no interest to me. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 30th, 2019 at 11:50:25 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Alzheimers is caused by periodontal disease, not genetics. What are Kiwi genes???? The USA ambassador to New Zealand would routinely pardon all pirates who landed in New Zealand so it became a goal for men of all seafaring nations to land in New Zealand and claim they had signed Articles of Piracy under duress of circumstance. Open up a history text and you can see why people from Ethiopia and Somalia have such very high percentages of Norwegian genes. I was once in a sleep chat room and a new visitor described her "full plate load" of diseases. I asked only if she was of Norwegian heritage and upon learning that her father was from Norway, I told her she had only ONE disease, a very rare one. This astounded the visitor, the fellow members of the chat room and I later learned it astounded the woman's physician. Can you imagine what an insurance company's underwriters would have done in that situation? Most chronic diseases involve an environmental insult and also a genetic susceptibility. |
June 30th, 2019 at 12:23:51 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
"Mother's genes appear to pass on tendency for the disease to children. ... Previous studies have found that people who have a close relative — mother, father, brother, sister — with the disease are four to 10 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's compared with those who have no direct family history." If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 30th, 2019 at 12:40:17 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 | I think it's probably a combination of both, just like some people are more susceptible to the bad effects of cigarette smoking, though smoking is the primary cause of cancer and other pulmonary disease, genetics also plays a factor. edit oh, see fleastiff said that in his last line You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
June 30th, 2019 at 12:46:19 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Genetic association does not establish genetic causation. Family members often develop the same dietary and oral hygiene habits, |
June 30th, 2019 at 1:15:15 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
90% of people over 65 don't have any form of Alzheimers. If it's not in your family, bad teeth aren't going to do it, or every old person in England would have Alzheimers. Their teeth are awful. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 30th, 2019 at 2:13:02 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Man, I needed to hear that. Radiation is horrid on teeth. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |