peeperjj's Notizen, 30 Jul 19

I don’t think I’d get on the roll if I could. Well maybe for the kids. I don’t see any benefit other than people knowing what my race(s) is. If anyone wants to know I can just tell them 😉 

just out of curiosity were you part Jewish  

so did you get some spit for the DNA? 

peeperjj; mom and dad gave up children for adoption at birth. one time a doctor left the delivery room with my newly born baby sister, and met a couple on a country road, and passed her to them. all they paid was the hospital bill.  

my mom said her grandma was full blooded Cherokee. Myself and 3 siblings took the DNA. The results showed way down on the list (under other) Native American ... and the number 30. Although it is just 30, not 30%. 

My 23andme came in mail yesterday! 

a good read before being tested on how accurate they are and not just on Native Americans https://www.genome.gov/news/news-release/DNA-tests-stand-on-shaky-ground-to-define-Native-American-identity 

So do you really give them the rights to your DNA in the small print? Like they can do anything they want with it? Or is it only for your testing the one time?  

Bella, I've never been pregant either. Hm. Both my parents had strokes. My mother's, fatal at 34, in 1968, was due to a congenital malformation, but she was also taking the very high-dose estrogen BCPs at the time. Her mother and sister died of cancer at 56 and 44, respectively, but her oldest sister died of Lyme-related cardiomyopathy. Her father: Parkinsonism in his early 80s. My father was 74 when he had a stroke but succumbed to leukemia four years later. His mother, who died at 69, was morbidly obese throughout adulthood, had arteriosclerotic heart disease, and suffered two strokes in her mid 60s. His father, a career mail carrier who walked every day of his life, was a very heavy smoker who died in the hospital during his third heart attack at 63. One paternal uncle died of cancer at 77; the other is still alive at 81 but with severe COPD. All but my paternal grandmother had smoked from their teens. And none of this showed up in my genetic markers! 

CB I understood it’s just for the test. When registering my kit I had the option of them keeping my saliva for health research.  

My Ancestry: European 99.8% Northwestern European 86.0% French & German. 67.6% British & Irish. 2.8% Scandinavian. 0.7% Broadly Northwestern European. 15.0% Southern European. 6.3% Spanish & Portuguese. 3.4% Greek & Balkan. 0.2% Broadly Southern European. 2.7% Eastern European. 0.8% Broadly European. 6.7% Trace Ancestry. < 0.1% Broadly East Asian & Native American. 0.1% 

Just so people know below. Just because you don’t get the DNA from certain ancestors doesn’t mean they weren’t your ancestors. You only get 50% of your parents DNA and that set of DNA is not 1/2 of each of your grandparents, DNA doesn’t follow those rules. You could have almost all the DNA from your grandmother and almost none from your grandfather through your mothers side for example. My grandmother was Swedish and my brother is 35% Swedish. My family was shocked thinking, we don’t have any other Swedish ancestry, but that isn’t the case. He’d just gotten more DNA from my Swedish grandmother than he had my Scottish American grandfather. 

Yes, Jewellyn! E is 50% Italian but his DD was only 7%! I am glad my Mom passed me her Native American (I have a whopping .2%). When the kits go on sale again, we are getting my sister a kit to see the difference between us. Fun! My great grandmothers' great grandmother was from a tribe in North Eastern USA/Canada Border. Somewhere around there. She told my mother the name of the tribe, but my mother does not remember and did not write it down.  

@Jess..the 23andMe recently went on sale via Amazon if you are a prime member. 50% off. I took advantage of that deal. I am not sure if they still have it or not. @All...I did ancestry.com for heritage. Doing 23andMe for heritage and genetics. It will be interesting to compare the heritage results between the two. Some group did a test with identical triplets to gauge accuracy - I think ancestry.com came out on top if I recall correctly. I do not remember where 23andMe fell - I think it was still pretty consistent. My heritage fits the story on my father's side. Not too much of my mother's. My niece took the test and ancestry.com matched us as "potentially closer than 1st cousins" or something like that. They also matched my niece to her paternal grandmother. It was really cool. The list they gave of people who I could be related to based on their database. A few family members who took the test who I didn't know took the test, popped up in my list.  

@Miraculum...French & German...ooooo...do you find you gravitate to food with a similar palatte cooked by those countries? 

@Court I missed it. Darn! Worse comes to worse...black friday :-) My research at the time said 23&me was more accurate. But DD and N used ancestry, so I want to do that too and get them 23&me and just compare. I love comparing! LOL 

@Jessa...I can't fully remember what the outcome was from the triplets...It was probably 23andMe.  

I did both. Ancestry was very vague, saying northern European and British isles. 23 and Me was much more precise, nailing down the Belgium region and Wales and Ireland, along with a bit of a surprise - a bit of Senegalise from Western Africa in the range of about 500 years ago. My mom had always said we had Native American blood on her side; guess she had it wrong. In any case, I have markers for obesity and T2D but fortunately no other markers for cancer or other diseases. Of the two kits, I think the 23 and Me was the more accurate. My sister did the Ancestry as well and hers came out as vague as mine did.  

@kclab 23&me actually got the town in Italy that E's grandfather was born in! That amazed me