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[haddon9]

My son got one for me for a holiday gift.  I think the results are fascinating...my ancestry is what I expected but I have a list of over 11,000 people who are considered to be linked to me as 2-3 or 4-5 cousins!

He got one for DH for Father's day.  I can't wait to see the results!

[Moonchilde]

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@Melania wrote:

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@Melania wrote:

It is not extensive healthwise. Why not just go to your doctor and get genetic testing?

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That would be serious individual medical genetic testing, each test per issue you want to find out about, and they run in the thousands per test.

The type of genetic disease testing all three major companies do is pretty superficial and doesn't cover that many conditions, many of them fairly obscure.

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I know, I had it.  It wasn't in the thousands and insurance covered more than half for what I had done.

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If you have one done, and depending on what it was for, no. But if insurance doesn't pay (and it doesn't for many) it's a lot out of pocket.

If a person has diagnosed breast cancer and the information is needed for treatment, all or much is covered depending on the DX, the person's age and what insurance they have. That wouldn't be the case if someone picked out a disease they don't have, but just wondered if they might get so felt like testing. If there's no medical reason to test, there's no reason for insurance to pay.

I worked in Pathology for the last 25 years before retiring. I sent the samples out and I spoke to the patients. It wasn't that many years ago that they had to pay it up front, period, unless their oncologist signed a hardship waiver with the testing company.

[Auntie CC]

What the DNA testing doesn't tell you, or, the print is so fine no one can see it...if you are female you do not have the Y chromosome therefor you can only retrieve female ancestry results. So you are paying for and getting only your mothers gene identification.

[Yardlie]

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@Melania wrote:

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@Melania wrote:

It is not extensive healthwise. Why not just go to your doctor and get genetic testing?

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That would be serious individual medical genetic testing, each test per issue you want to find out about, and they run in the thousands per test.

The type of genetic disease testing all three major companies do is pretty superficial and doesn't cover that many conditions, many of them fairly obscure.

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I know, I had it.  It wasn't in the thousands and insurance covered more than half for what I had done.

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You're lucky. My doctor told me that many insurances won't cover it. I found out through Promethease that I was a carrier for the mutated BRCA2 gene. My doctor wanted me to have genetic testing done through Myriad. Medicare refuses to pay for genetic testing for breast cancer unless you have actually had breast cancer...which seems like they are putting the cart before the horse. They did not care that my mother and my two aunts (her sisters) had breast cancer. Myriad wanted $3500 for the test.

Fortunately, because I already had some genetic testing done through Promethease (showing that I am carrying the mutated gene) using the raw data from 23andme, Myriad has a policy that they will do single gene testing for I think it was $350. I had to pay that myself.

[SeaMaiden]

@haddon9   If I am impressed with the results of my test, I am going to send for one for my Husband if he is interested.  It is up to him.

[SeaMaiden]

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@Auntie CC wrote:

What the DNA testing doesn't tell you, or, the print is so fine no one can see it...if you are female you do not have the Y chromosome therefor you can only retrieve female ancestry results. So you are paying for and getting only your mothers gene identification.

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@Auntie CC   Thanks for sharing. That is interesting and good  to know. 

[Moonchilde]

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@Auntie CC wrote:

What the DNA testing doesn't tell you, or, the print is so fine no one can see it...if you are female you do not have the Y chromosome therefor you can only retrieve female ancestry results. So you are paying for and getting only your mothers gene identification.

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And your father's - but in the male line, it's only your father's - for women testing, it doesn't go any farther back on the male line to "ancestors", just him. But each of us is half our mother's genes and half our father's genes, so of course our father shows up in our results - just not all of his ancestry going back. And I've never seen it hidden or in fine print that this is the case. I knew before I ever tested.

[Moonchilde]

I've had three DNA tests and have done extensive research on DNA ancestry testing.

Every time I see a new DNA thread, my mind boggles at the misinformation people are eager to gobble up just because someone posted it. It's so wonderfully self-righteous to be able to believe someone's trying to cheat you, steal from you, sell your info, and you're smarter than that. 

I vowed the last time a DNA thread came up (there have been quite a few) I would no longer provide any information. This thread has clinched it. People don't want the truth, they want to hear what satisfies them, true or not. 

[OnlyShopsOnline]

I did the Ancestry.com test.  It was fascinating.  I have ancestors from so many parts of the world.  Not at all what I expected.  

I didn't do 23 and Me because I'm leaving genetic testing up to my doctors.  I'm going to have that done in the near future; in the process of making an appointment now.  I didn't want to end up with a lot of information and not know what to do with it.  

I did find hundreds and hundreds of possible relatives and made contact with someone from my mother's side of the family.  That's been interesting since I really don't know that much about my mother's side.

[SeaMaiden]

I guess what I am now wondering is :

Will this give me any background on my Father's side of the family? I would like to know more about his Mother's history.