That’s all pretty interesting I guess, but it’s not that big of a deal for me.
But 23andMe has a strong focus on genealogy and all that, using the markers in your DNA to tell you where your ancestors came from. Now, I was in this for the whole health information aspect – I wanna know how I’m gonna die. In any case, it seemed to arrive back at the lab without any trouble. genetics.stuff?” The package itself had this written on it, which made it look even more suspicious: I also had to answer the difficult question of what was in the package a few times, to which I just replied “er. This took a few days as I had to schedule a DHL Express pickup and fill out a load of customs forms. Seriously, it took me like 20 minutes and was pretty disgusting. Not just a little spit either, like enough to fill a large dish. This involved snapping a load of tags and flasks and beakers and fluids and things, and spitting into a test tube. I then had had the tricky task of using the kit. But the kit arrived promptly within a few days. The $99 for the kit wasn’t so bad, but I had to basically pay that again in shipping fees. Ordering the kit was a bit fiddly, since it was coming from America. With far too much time on my hands, I decided to give it a go. Specifically, I saw some buzz around the site 23andMe – an online genetics report site, so called for the 23 pairs of chromosomes we have. Hell, you could wake up one day and have your head just suddenly explode! With genes, anything could happen.Īs such, I couldn’t help but take interest when I noticed people talking about online gene analysis sites. You could be sitting on a ticking time bomb of cancer risk genes right now and not even know it. A real life fatalist nightmare.Īnd worse still, unless you get tested there’s no way of knowing what your genes are. I mean, having it hard-coded into your DNA (literally speaking, not the horrible way this is used everywhere now) that you’re susceptible to things more than other people, and knowing there’s nothing you can do about it, is pretty terrifying. And I couldn’t help but find that terrifying. But what do they actually do? And can they predict the future?Įarlier this year I was reading a news story about how such-and-such genes can increase your risk of such-and-such.
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