Thread: Your Ethnicity?

Originally Posted by Switch

that Mont Claire stuff really is shit.

Most outrageous comment I've ever seen on teakdoor.

The first glass can be hard to get down but after 5 or 6 it's not so bad.

I find chilling with ice kills the flavour sufficiently.

Originally Posted by Mendip

The first glass can be hard to get down

You don't inject it?

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Did you employ the same plastic surgeon as Michael Jackson?

I did but they buggered up me nose. Much too long.

Originally Posted by Neverna

I haven't, but it would be interesting to see if the science matches the supposed family history.

if you get a chance take a listen to this two part podcast on the topic from the new york times...

https://www.podbean.com/site/Episode...IR648F5B89B84A

https://www.podbean.com/site/Episode...IR64A643AHYAV3

Originally Posted by Mendip

Your Ethnicity?

^ great scene in a very good movie.

Coincidentally I had an email from myheritage.com today, the same company I first used for my mum's ethnicity estimate last year before I started this thread.

They are now offering 'health reports'. A few excerpts from the email...

The MyHeritage DNA Health+Ancestry test will tell how your genes may affect your health through detailed reports about your genetic risk for developing conditions such as hereditary breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and others.
It includes carrier status reports that help you determine your child's risk of inheriting certain genetic diseases, such as Tay-Sachs disease and cystic fibrosis. These reports are important for family planning.
It includes innovative polygenic risk reports for 3 of the most prevalent conditions worldwide: heart disease, female breast cancer, and type 2 diabetes. These unique reports examine hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of variants across the genome to provide a comprehensive genetic risk estimate for these conditions. Currently, the polygenic risk reports are only available to people who are of mainly European ancestry, because the scientific data is limited to people of that ethnic background.

I think that used as a bit of fun to 'estimate' ethnicity is one thing, and I still plan to do that for my daughter as her ethnicity is so diverse it would be interesting... taken with a pinch of salt.

But, even if the claims are founded, do you really want to know if you are genetically liable to a certain disease that you can do nothing about? My father sadly had Parkinsons before he died and I believe there is an approximate 10% chance I could have inherited that gene. That is one thing I certainly don't want to know about until if/when it happens.

As for heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, regardless of genetic susceptibility the main causes of these diseases are life style. We all know what is healthy or not, the thing is whether it is acted on.

Originally Posted by OhOh

An example of a reason to send your blood for "free ethnicity analysis" or selling onto insurers ?

This appears to be a useful function.

However other undisclosed findings will sold too/find there way into your "safely secured medical history" accessible by insurers.

Jjust to check your application for health Insurance.

It’s in your blood: New Alzheimer’s test lets doctors detect dementia in ‘under 1 hour’



"A team of scientists claim to have developed the world’s first blood test that can detect Alzheimer’s disease. The pioneering method may prove vital in dealing with the impending dementia crisis the world could face this century.

The Amplified Plasmonic Exosome (Apex) system was developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and analyzes specific proteins in blood samples, catching the disease earlier than ever before."

https://www.rt.com/news/462593-world...rs-blood-test/

OhOh will have forgotten he posted this by tomorrow.

Originally Posted by OhOh

It’s in your blood: New Alzheimer’s test lets doctors detect dementia in ‘under 1 hour’

I do not want to know personally. My mother has it and at 69 she just started on occasion to forget who my step father is. It is intermittent and she has not forgot who her kids are...

Yet.

Fucking shit disease and it is causing a lot of pain in my family so far.

Well I suppose if you knew in advance you could start googling buildings in Pattaya with high floors.

So there's that.

Very Caucasian thread.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Well I suppose if you knew in advance you could start googling buildings in Pattaya with high floors.
So there's that.

Or do something useful with what remains of your time like taking out a boring twat and saving the world some oxygen.

Originally Posted by Mendip

But, even if the claims are founded, do you really want to know if you are genetically liable to a certain disease that you can do nothing about?

Thats a misnomer , Genes is the gun, but depending on the condition there are triggers, Knowing the genetic predisposition enables you to try and avoid the trigger.
For instance, in my father's side there is a genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes in old age , I am aware the I might be liable to that predisposition so I manage the triggers, ( healthy pancreas, low complex carbohydrates, food Glycemic Index. etc ) A genetic predisposition is not always a death sentence.

But even if it was, as it is in certain instances, I believe it would make what time one has that much more valuable, and properly applied on what matters.

I certainly would like to know. If I am going to start forgetting at the very least I would want to write down the names of all the people on my shit list, and try to get to them while I can.

So yeah, I took one of those tests.

My lineage can be traced to between one, possibly six, continents.

98.3% Human
1.7% Other

Genetic predisposition to crankiness, horniness, etc...

$50 well invested.

Originally Posted by Agent_Smith

98.3% Human
1.7% Other

Ummm...how does that work then??

Buckaroo Banzai, you worded that so much better than my effort.

I guess what I was trying to say was, that in for example the case of Parkinsons which my father had, there is a 15% chance that it can be inherited. There is a test for a gene mutation that if positive would be a strong indication for my predisposition of catching that disease. I would prefer not to know. On the other hand there are many suggestions of how to 'maybe' limit your likelihood of catching Parkinsons, such as eating lots of fish, fruit, veg, whole grains etc, drinking green tea, limiting red meat and dairy products. And staying active and exercising. In other words, all the things we know are healthy anyway. I try and follow many anyway but not specifically to limit my chance of Parkinsons. Both of my parents had/have high blood pressure and i am already showing signs of having inherited that - its pretty much the same lifestyle choices listed above that are also suggested to reduce blood pressure.

I have a young daughter and for her sake need to pass medicals for work for at least the next 10 years. That's a good motivator.

I have always used the philosophy of "let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food".

My mother is 87 and has late-stage Alzheimers / Dementia, but I never will. She liked bacon and I haven't eaten meat for 42 years.

A bump for this thread... one of the first I think I started when I joined Teakdoor last year.

While back in the UK over Christmas I bought another test kit from myheritage.com for my daughter... they were doing a half price offer. She duly swabbed the inside of her cheeks and I sent the sample off to The States for their lab analysis. I've just had email notification that the lab has received the DNA kit and results will be forthcoming.

I know there are naysayers for this kind of stuff but I think it will be interesting. The DNA kit was sent to the UK, my daughter's name is as Western as they come and there is absolutely no way that myheritage.com could infer any SE Asian connection. So, we shall see.

Just a recap from my mum's DNA results, with pictures now that I've become more proficient with this board...





My mum's family hail from the North East (South Shields) so the Scandinavian portion is no surprise. There is also an unmistakable Mediterranean influence on my mum's side of the family. All in all I reckon her DNA test results were realistic and very believable.

This diagram appears to show the ethnic options (not all listed).



Just for the record... my wife reckons that her mum is Thai, the family originating from Bangkok. She's pretty sure her dad had Chinese and Indian heritage. So we shall see what myheritage.com comes up with for my daughter...

^^ Ha ha... that would raise some questions... not only of my wife but also of my mum...?

I'm hoping for a Western/Asian mix to be honest!