I have a friend who would like to test for health issues. What company do we like and what test? I did not jump to 23andme because of the limited rang of their test, since the encounter with the FDA. Thanks, Marleen Van Horne

Hi Marleen, Best is to do a Full Genome Sequencing as the number of health related SNP’s is limited with 23andMe to those that they targeted first. FTDNA doesn’t test health, so you can’t even get the APO-E for Alzheimer with them. Ancestry has started to check some but that’s also way more limited than 23andMe as it’s mainly some traits. Andreas Andreas West Meine Vorfahren / my ancestors (8 generations): http://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/Basso-23/5 Author of https://www.yourDNA.family Follow us on Facebook for latest updates on our progress - https://www.facebook.com/yourDNAfamily/ > On 16 Dec 2018, at 23:41, Marleen Van Horne <msvnhrn@jps.net> wrote: > > I have a friend who would like to test for health issues. > > What company do we like and what test? > > I did not jump to 23andme because of the limited rang of their test, since the encounter with the FDA. > > Thanks, > > Marleen Van Horne > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community

Thank you all for your suggestions. Marleen Van Horne

I believe that only 23andme offers testing on health issues And 23andme is strictly limited to specific health issues. Remember that 23andme was shut down and put out of business for many months because the Food and Drug Administration said they did not have a license to practice medicine. After tremendous objections 23andme was allowed to reopen on Family Tree and genealogy issues. Now after litigation against the FDA they have offered tests on just a few rare conditions which your friend probably does not have. Sam Sloan On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:40 PM Marleen Van Horne <msvnhrn@jps.net> wrote: > Thank you all for your suggestions. > > Marleen Van Horne > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe > https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: > https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb > community >

> I have a friend who would like to test for health issues. > What company do we like and what test? > I did not jump to 23andme because of the limited rang of their test, since the > encounter with the FDA. A year ago, I would've ... 1) do a normal atDNA test with AncestryDNA, since their DNA results seems the most "generic" (easily copy-able to all of GEDmatch, MyHeritage, and FTDNA), and then 2) download my AncestryDNA spit kits results, and upload them to Promethease for USD12. ... and that's still what I'd do now, but I haven't done it for a year so I haven't checked right now to see whether "it's the same as it used to be" (which was good--much like "the old 23andMe" except not nearly as polished). Best, Eric