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shamus
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"i want to do an ancestryDNA test, but i'm nervous"


  

          

How careful should I be about sending my spit out to one of these companies (Ancestry, 23andMe, etc.)? I don't know how seriously to take the warnings about the risks of having my genetic information in some company's database. (Hi, I don't know shit about science or information security.)

Ancestry now says on their site that you can ask for your results and your sample to be destroyed, if you want...

Trustworthy?


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Google already got all your DNA anyway
Jun 19th 2017
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shit seems like a scam..
Jun 19th 2017
2
they have a pretty large database
Jun 19th 2017
they have a pretty large database
Jun 19th 2017
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I did 23andme and haven't had any problems.
Jun 19th 2017
3
Not until you meet all the clones they made off you.
Jun 19th 2017
5
      Teknontheou2 do be wildin....
Jun 19th 2017
9
pretty sure all of them
Jun 19th 2017
6
this also what the other part of me is thinking
Jun 19th 2017
7
that's the other thing....
Jun 19th 2017
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it's coming...
Jun 19th 2017
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I want to do it but have legit concerns
Jun 19th 2017
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one of the black owned companies said they destroy the sample
Jun 19th 2017
10
i hear you
Jun 19th 2017
13
My sister used Ancestry and the results were fascinating
Jun 19th 2017
14
UTAH. they already know about you anyway, so....
Jun 19th 2017
15
there's a big ass archives builiding in
Jun 19th 2017
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The genealogical database for ancestry.com exists....
Jun 19th 2017
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Bruh, you think your genes are so dope that folks wanna steal them?
Jun 19th 2017
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Honest question... why do you want to do this?
Jun 19th 2017
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good question
Jun 20th 2017
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does the one drop rule still apply?
Jun 20th 2017
21

BrooklynWHAT
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Mon Jun-19-17 09:17 AM

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1. "Google already got all your DNA anyway"
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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legsdiamond
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Mon Jun-19-17 09:25 AM

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2. "shit seems like a scam.. "
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has anyone ever challenged their results?

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shamus
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Mon Jun-19-17 09:36 AM

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"they have a pretty large database"


  

          

so I'm sure there's some disgruntled and/or confused customers out there.


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shamus
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4. "they have a pretty large database"
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so I'm sure there's some disgruntled and/or confused customers out there.


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Teknontheou
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Mon Jun-19-17 09:26 AM

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3. "I did 23andme and haven't had any problems."
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Innocent Criminal
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Mon Jun-19-17 09:56 AM

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5. "Not until you meet all the clones they made off you."
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There are dozens of us! Dozens!

  

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FLUIDJ
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9. " Teknontheou2 do be wildin...."
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tariqhu
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6. "pretty sure all of them"
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sell your data, which is why I haven't.........yet. it prolly doesn't really matter since everybody sells everything.

I'm also wondering how soon insurance companies will get this info as it pertains to health care cost. if your dna suggests that you'll get parkinsons at 75, how will that change your policies as you get closer to that age?

I think ancestrydna has the largest database for matching you up.

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shamus
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Mon Jun-19-17 10:07 AM

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7. "this also what the other part of me is thinking"
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>sell your data, which is why I haven't.........yet. it prolly
>doesn't really matter since everybody sells everything.
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i'm just in a swirl of a million other dummies who gave up all their info.

>I'm also wondering how soon insurance companies will get this
>info as it pertains to health care cost. if your dna suggests
>that you'll get parkinsons at 75, how will that change your
>policies as you get closer to that age?
>

don't know. but ancestry already had a situation where they gave up some people's info to the police.


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tariqhu
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12. "that's the other thing...."
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>don't know. but ancestry already had a situation where they
>gave up some people's info to the police.

this police work will probably lead to more profiling.

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ambient1
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11. "it's coming..."
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>>>ow soon insurance companies will get this info as it pertains to health care cost. if your dna suggests that you'll get parkinsons at 75, how will that change your policies as you get closer to that age?


and faster than you think

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Kira
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Mon Jun-19-17 10:13 AM

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8. "I want to do it but have legit concerns"
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Who owns my DNA?
Which company has the right to sell my DNA?
Is there a database somewhere I don't know about?

The anti consumer climate of this current administration has me worried they'll allow a huge database available to law enforcement officials and corporations. Imagine applying for a new position and getting screened with DNA. This could make profiling even worse. Part of me feels this is a covert white supremacist attempt to turn my life upside down but maybe that's just me.

  

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Riot
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10. "one of the black owned companies said they destroy the sample"
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either africandna or african ancestry
had it on the website, even before this latest reveal that ancestry "retains all rights" and 23andme was selling to 3rd parties



the other thing is the black companies are matching to tribes, not countries

some pros and cons to each i guess.
but the country match is to a place that didnt even exist 100 hundred years ago, much less during middle passage

so being "40% nigerian" when nigeria has dozens of tribes and the tribes crossed current national borders
is kinda like if your match was 40% american. beyond the surface its not saying a whole lot

but blk ppl collectively know like 5% of our background so they making money selling us another 6%

a friend, not sure what company he used but his report just said '85% subsaharan'. lol wtf

also some ppl get into finding their haplogroup and researching that, etc


i wanna do it but i dont wanna do it.
or send samples to all the companies and see what they say when results dont match



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shamus
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13. "i hear you"
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part of me is fine with just being given regions where my people were generally from *to start*, and also to see if there's any surprises (although their probably won't be.) But maybe I need to rethink that.

Ancestry gets *a little* more specific than just a general "Subsaharan", at least when it comes to West Africa. So it wasn't them, at least not recently.


>the other thing is the black companies are matching to tribes,
>not countries
>
>some pros and cons to each i guess.
>but the country match is to a place that didnt even exist 100
>hundred years ago, much less during middle passage
>
>so being "40% nigerian" when nigeria has dozens of tribes and
>the tribes crossed current national borders
>is kinda like if your match was 40% american. beyond the
>surface its not saying a whole lot
>
>but blk ppl collectively know like 5% of our background so
>they making money selling us another 6%
>
>a friend, not sure what company he used but his report just
>said '85% subsaharan'. lol wtf
>
>also some ppl get into finding their haplogroup and
>researching that, etc
>
>
>i wanna do it but i dont wanna do it.
>or send samples to all the companies and see what they say
>when results dont match
>
>


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be_yourself
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14. "My sister used Ancestry and the results were fascinating"
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There's a whole page about privacy for your ancestry DNA test on their site. I'd be more inclined to use a company such as that which has been around for a long time, they seem quite reputable.



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15. "UTAH. they already know about you anyway, so...."
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i could be wrong, i never looked this up but it is something I've heard through the years that mormons update and maintain a genealogical database of every one

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16. "there's a big ass archives builiding in "
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Salt Lake City. didn't have time to venture inside tho.

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Kira
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18. "The genealogical database for ancestry.com exists...."
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>i could be wrong, i never looked this up but it is something
>I've heard through the years that mormons update and maintain
>a genealogical database of every one

... cause I've worked on it but it's just names from all over the world. The AncestryDNA database is a separate thing from the list of names on ancestry.

  

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17. "Bruh, you think your genes are so dope that folks wanna steal them?"
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j/k

  

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19. "Honest question... why do you want to do this?"
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legsdiamond
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20. "good question"
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I guess it's cool to see that far back but I feel like after a few generations they just throw shit together that sounds cool.

My fam has a family tree/book that goes back a few generations but seems like once you get to slave days it's a toss up.

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21. "does the one drop rule still apply?"
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If so a lot of these so called Caucasian people are black as hell
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