We are all going to have to do some more reading on DNA to understand it all, so I concentrated instead on the health results. It's pretty impressive. 23andMe DNA
Our reports showed if we were carriers of certain disorders and if we might have sensitivities to certain drugs or treatments. I learned that both my brother and I have bitter taste receptors that hubs does not have. All in all the health and medical reports were quite detailed and provided our individual risk % compared to the average. I'm still going over them!
One item I noticed this morning is a printable genetic health summary report which 23andMe suggests might be shared with a health-care provider. Great idea! The site explains it as
This overview includes brief summaries of your 23andMe DNA
- diseases for which you are at greater than average genetic risk,
- heritable diseases for which you carry one or more genetic variants (carrier status),
- and drugs to which you are likely to have an atypical response based on genetics.
Of course there were the standard paternal and maternal Haplogroup determinations and so on but I'll talk about those in a future blog post. Not all of our details are in for this part of the testing. Let me end with the amusing finding that my brother's has 2.6% Neanderthal DNA, hubs has 2.8% and I have 3% which puts me in the 86th percentile! Wow I can't believe I'm more Neanderthal than my brother but genetics doesn't lie.
And now I'm off to do more reading on DNA
2 comments:
Well, I guess if it weren't for Neanderthals, none of us would be here! Or almost none? Fascinating results.
Getting my 23andM results has been very interesting. I like the 2.7% Neanderthal genetic material that I have. Also having Viking genetic material is good, too. Cannot wait for my sister's to compare how full sibs compare.
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