this sounds like a really interesting DNA test, as well as being valuable. If you ever see this test at that bargain price again, could you post it to the list? Thank you so much Sandy ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:54 PM Subject: [S-I] If you are reading this, you are on the Scotch Irish list > Hi folks, it is the summer dulldrims when everyone goes off to the beach > to pick up tar balls and stops doing genealogy. However you are still on > the list if you can read this. I will try to think of something relevant > to post on. > > However today I got my results for my DNA testing. In late April > www.23andme.com offered a sale for one day: their $500 package for $100. I > jumped at it, being poor and priced out of the autosomal market. Today the > results came in. WOW!!! This is a great toy, if nothing else. I will be > chewing on this bone for months. > > I have two siblings who have crohns disease and sure enough, I have a > couple genes that cause it. Apparently at least 5 or 6 have been found (I > forget).... The webpages are so well designed. It presents the info > simply, but you can 'drill down' to review the exact information on each > gene and get the names of the studies. Apparently you can link to info on > the studies or maybe the studies .....will take me a while to get there. I > learned a lot about my disease risks and that I carry no genes for things > like cystic fibrosis. Of course at my age I would probably know this > already. I got a fat gene, no surprise there either. > > I got more details on my mitochondrial DNA. I am 100% European, largely > northern. No Indians in the woodpile. They accurately predicted my ABO > blood type (And I learned my mum passed me an O gene: my dad is AB so he > gave me the B, and my mum, a B must have been BO...) and my eye color, the > kind of ear wax I got , and a number of other things. > > I got matches with a number of cousins who I emailed and now I'm waiting > to see how that works. I had hoped for more insight on alzheimers risks, > but apparently they are still working on that. It's complicated, they say. > My mother's line has a lot of it. AND I learned why my dad and his mother > have dry eyes and mouths: an autoimmune condition I got a gene for > too....and I know who to blame for it <grin>. This is probably not as > important as knowing my reactions to warfarin (average) and a few other > drugs they test for. that could be important, so I guess I'll print it out > and carry it with me. > > Yes, this will keep me occupied and out of trouble at least through the > summer --- and maybe get me some new Scotch Irish cousins as well. We live > in an astonishing time. > > Linda Merle > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message