[Lilug] Unrelated Question

[Kewisch, Jorg]

I am very skeptical of this dna test offers. Beside giving such important personal information to someone else without any control (the FBI has  subpoenad some test results), how do we know that the results are correct or useful? It would be interesting to submit to several different services and compare the results (but not my dna!). I know someone who did the ancestry testing. Result:  from all over Europe. That can probably be claimed for most Caucasians without generating doubt.  Another one is a TV ad: "I am 26% native American". I would believe 25% or 12.5% or 6.25%, but how do they come up with 26%?  

But then: if you have a facebook account and have already surrendered your baby pictures and all other private information, go ahead and try it....
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From: Lilug [lilug-bounces at lists.lilug.org] on behalf of Robert Wilkens [robwilkens42 at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 10:06 PM
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Subject: [Lilug] Unrelated Question

On this mailing list a few months ago (??) there was discussion of DNA and Crispr and all that.

I finally got curious enough to buy a DNA test kit, but i didn't do anything with it yet (didn't get it yet).  Thanks to this list i learned there are places you can upload your raw DNA data file to for analysis, one i found was something called promethease i think.

In the 'sample results' (again, i don't have mine yet) -- one single result (gene) found showed a likelihood for autism, schizophrenia, and chronic sinusitis, and i deal - daily - with some level of all three.  I am expecting a similar genetic result in that department.  I am curious if i am right.

I think someone mentioned some kind of "open source" DNA analysis?  If there is can you mention what it was called?  I will then put it 2-3 months ahead on my calendar to then remind me to find and try it once i have results, hopefully something compatible with ancestry's file format (? is it different?).

I am OK to run software comptaible with Linux, Android, or Windows.

-Rob



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