My Genome
Fun with mtDNA: Exploring my Maternal Ancestry
From my mom's mom to my mom to me. That's how mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) likes to travel. You can see how it's helpful in determining maternal ancestry.
My mtDNA determines that I belong to the PreHV maternal haplogroup (It sounds so all-encompassing, right?).
More specifically, I guess I'm part of daughter branches H and V, [...]
How Breast Cancer and Other Four Star-Rated Topics Relate to My DNA, Part 1
When you go into 23andMe's Gene Journal, a place I've been frequenting a lot lately, you can view how diseases like Age-related Macular Degeneration apply to your own DNA.
Each disease, condition etc is given a research confidence rating from 1-4 stars. A topic with four star rating means that they are "widely accepted by [...]
Sharing My DNA Results
Lot's of people have been asking me if I got any interesting or bad news in my genetic profile. There's a handful of data packed into my genetic profile and I haven't yet gotten through all of it.
I think it would be a lot easier to just share my genome results with you guys [...]
The Most Common Cancer (For Men) and Me
There is a lot of information packed into my genetic profile on 23andMe. I haven't managed to fully digest or figure out everything since I got the email on Friday.
The first thing I did was go straight for my Gene Journal and see if I had any major predispositions to stuff like glaucoma, various [...]
I Just Received an Exciting Email!
What makes the email so exciting that it deserves a post?
The subject line says, "Your Genetic Profile is Ready at 23andMe!"
I just received it like ten minutes ago, so I'm going to stay up tonight and check out my results. Be prepared for some really interesting genome posts over the next few days (and [...]
Bummer… I’m One of Those Customers
I'm subscribed to 23andMe's blog appropriately titled The Spittoon. Today, they posted to their blog an explanation why it's taking recent customers (like me) longer than the usual 4-6 weeks to get their results back.
Here's an excerpt from the post written by founders Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey:
"Some customers who recently ordered our Personal [...]
Still Waiting For My DNA Results
Whenever I run into friends and family someone usually asks me about my "DNA thing". They always want to know if I "know anything yet?".
Five weeks have elapsed since I mailed my saliva tube on Feb. 7 (You can see my DNA party photos here and my spit challenge video here). 23andMe says that [...]
Demo 23andMe with the “Mendel Family”
I sent my saliva tube to 23andMe about two weeks ago, which means I won't be able to start exploring my genome for another couple weeks.
In the meantime, I'm still trying to recuperate from my record-setting saliva spitting.
23andMe's blog the spittoon announced three pretty cool things yesterday:
First, they added a paternal ancestry feature so [...]
We Joined The DNA Network plus Exciting Spit Challenge News
Two really cool things happened today.
First, we joined The DNA Network with our "My Genome" blog category.
The DNA Network is a Feedburner Network that is an aggregation of the latest headlines from blogs documenting the genome revolution.
It was started by two excellent genome-focused bloggers Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei at Eye on DNA and Rick Vidal at [...]
Spit Party Photos
Here are some photos from the 23andMe saliva-spitting party we had:
You can see my 146sec record-setting spit video here.
See famous people spitting at the Davos World Economic Forum over on 23andMe's blog called the spittoon.
The 'My Genome' category in the left sidebar has complete coverage of our genome-decoding adventures so far.
More info on 23andMe via [...]
