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Genetic Testing?

post #1 of 11
4/23/11 at 11:17am
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Going to go ahead and get my DNA tested before the FDA gets involved and everything goes to sh*t. Has anyone does this? Who are the more reputable services? Any recommendations? Or even recommendations on where to get recommendations?
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post #2 of 11
4/23/11 at 12:29pm
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Originally Posted by FLMountainMan View Post
Going to go ahead and get my DNA tested before the FDA gets involved and everything goes to sh*t. Has anyone does this? Who are the more reputable services? Any recommendations? Or even recommendations on where to get recommendations?

Tested for what?
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post #3 of 11
4/23/11 at 1:58pm
I'd just like to hop in and say this is genuinely one of the weirder threads I've ever seen from a non-spambot.
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post #4 of 11
4/24/11 at 10:48am
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Tested for what?
+1. Why?
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post #5 of 11
4/24/11 at 11:02am
http://www.quackwatch.org/01Quackery.../genomics.html http://www.councilforresponsiblegene...83&archive=yes
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post #6 of 11
4/24/11 at 9:33pm
There's a reason the FDA will get involved -- there is no industry-wide standardization, and the "results" you get may well be meaningless. What are you going to do in response to the results? Eat better, more healthy foods because you think you're predisposed to heart disease? Well . . . just go ahead and do that anyway. Not have children because you think they'll inherit something?? Well??
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post #7 of 11
4/24/11 at 9:38pm
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Originally Posted by Bartolo View Post
There's a reason the FDA will get involved -- there is no industry-wide standardization, and the "results" you get may well be meaningless.

What are you going to do in response to the results? Eat better, more healthy foods because you think you're predisposed to heart disease? Well . . . just go ahead and do that anyway. Not have children because you think they'll inherit something?? Well??

Predisposition to certain cancers can theoretically be detected. If you know you're at elevated risk for colon cancer, for example, it would make sense to get checked more often than the general population.

I don't know which service is best, but I'd be interested in others' experiences as well.
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post #8 of 11
4/24/11 at 11:02pm
Some radio show, maybe from NPR, had a journalist send his DNA to a bunch of different clinics that did this and got back different results from each one.

Science will figure this out in time, but for right now you wont find any reliable conclusions.
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post #9 of 11
4/25/11 at 8:21am
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Some radio show, maybe from NPR, had a journalist send his DNA to a bunch of different clinics that did this and got back different results from each one. Science will figure this out in time, but for right now you wont find any reliable conclusions.
+1 Your results are likely to be meaningless and unactionable, and besides, what diseases are you even hoping to screen for? Cancers of various types? Heart disease? Diabeetus? Alzheimer's? Given the nature of the Western diet and lifestyle, just assume the answer is "yes" on those. You're at risk. We're all at risk. Best to assume high risk, too. Get your diet game right, get your exercise on, and you get your regular screenings done, and you'll do the best you can. Given that genetics-based medicine is a long ways away, there is nothing you can do with the information you would get through today's testing. Also, LOL at the anti-FDA rant. You are such a Floridian redneck. In a cute, charming way! But still.
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post #10 of 11
4/25/11 at 10:38am
I don't know that you'd learn a whole lot more about yourself and your predispositions by testing any more than you would from looking at your grandparents. For instance: two of my grandparents had heart attacks and a third had CHF, so I made it a point to stay active and changed my diet. Also, they all had a preference for whiskey over clear spirits, so again - the grandparents kinda set the tone for my present and future.

Then again, they all smoked like chimneys and ate a lot of bacon and lived into their 70's, and they probably put a nip of bourbon into my bottle as a wee youth, so the preceding post really ought to be taken with a grain of salt, unless of course you have high blood pressure.
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post #11 of 11
4/25/11 at 4:43pm
Well, as already mentioned 23 and Me does DNA health testing. Had mine tested, more for genealogy purposes, but it also reported tendencies I might have. Nothing scary to report. You might check out this forum sight. I've seen several mentions of others testing with 23 and Me there. http://www.eupedia.com/forum/index.php If looking to test your self for general conditions outside of a hospital, there is also http://www.directlabs.com/ or http://www.questdiagnostics.com/ Lots of home testing kits now available also. https://shop.trackyourplaque.com/Cat...ood_Tests.aspx
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