I usually don’t put adverts on this site, and of course I’m not getting any dosh for this, but I thought it was a good deal, and it’s effective only today. 23andMe, the DNA-testing ancestry service I used myself, is having a sale on its “ancestry service” today, which will tell you where your genes come from and, if you want, put your data in a bank that allows you to find your registered relatives.
The usual price is $119, but today only it’s $79: a 33% reducation. I don’t think you’re going to find it much cheaper than that. You can, of course, pay more if you want to learn your chances of getting breast cancer, Alzheimer’s, or many other diseases, but I’m too much of a worrier to do that.
Click on the screenshot below (or here) if you want to find out about your ancestry. You can get up to three kits at that price.
Not a good idea if you decide to switch careers and become a serial killer. 😂
I believe they can now track you down if any close relatives have had their DNA tested. The lesson is that if you want to succeed as a serial killer, you should off your relatives first.
+1
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Yep.
If anyone in your extended kindred has done the test they’ll still get you eventually. Even if you only did one killing where you left DNA at the scene..
Bummer.
😂
I quite accidentally found it for $0.00 after I signed up for All of Us research program at the NIH, here https://allofus.nih.gov/. They said I was Jewish, with a smidge of northern European and middle eastern, which sounds about right (notwithstanding that a cousin who descended from several rabbis contracted a deficiency disease that is wholly unknown among Ashkenazi Jews).
It’not fair.23andMe sends the tests to just five or six EU countries.Obviously, Spain it’s not among them.Anyone knows a reliable company which I could do the ancestry test? 😏
Btw, Happy 4th July.
My sister and I used 23andme and found a previously unknown half-brother. He had been put up for adoption.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine.
I’d be worried about finding previously unknown heirs.
All parents were deceased. He had a happy childhood and waited until they passed to start checking.
No problems developed.
I don’t think an offspring who was adopted could qualify for the biological parent’s inheritance (although I’m not a lawyer).
I was tempted by this until I got to the part where it told me that the shipping cost to NZ was a further $70.99 US. Do any NZ-based readers have any suggestions for a cheaper and good local alternative?
Make them mandatory for university admission!
I did it! I’m excited to get the results!
This data has been great for tracing criminals where there’s DNA. In the USA Parabon Nanolabs has done a lot of work with police. Sometimes they have to go back multiple generations to find the common ancestor and work forward from there.
This has even resulted in identifying deceased murderers and rapists, which can give some closure to the families of victims. This one took 50 years. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/cold-case-murder-of-teen-babysitter-finally-solved-after-five-decades/ar-BB1maR63?item=flightsprg-tipsubsc-v1a
Ironically the first person caught by DNA didn’t actually have a DNA test. All the men in the village of Narborough, Leicestershire, UK volunteered for DNA tests to find a double murderer. They were all ruled out. But the criminal was overheard saying he’d got another guy to do his DNA test, and was caught that way. https://www.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/articles/2023/first-criminal-caught-using-dna-evidence/
It won’t be long before they can publish an image of a criminal based on analysis their DNA. Sadly it won’t deter all murderers and rapists.