23andMe, Ancestry & DNA Test Services
Description
Tyler talks about 23andMe, Ancestry & DNA Test Services. On Amazon Prime Day, Tyler got enticed into buying 23andMe after a couple years of holding off. Tyler talks about both the excitement and worry of getting ancestry and health results, which could include information that shows him at higher risk for certain diseases. Tyler also talks about the privacy risks of using a service like this and the increasing use of these companies by law enforcement and immigration officers. What do you think? Have you used one of these services? Would you? Is there a risk? Is it accurate? And is it worth it for the information you can get?
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Links from video:
https://www.23andme.com/en-ca/
https://www.familytreedna.com/sign-in
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2522-inside-shady-world-dna-testing-companies.html
https://globalnews.ca/news/2879276/privacy-risks-lurk-in-dna-tests-experts-warn/
Transcripted (Unedited)
Oh, everyone hope everything’s going well. It’s tier today. I want to talk about something that’s I think really interesting to obviously me, but to a lot of people. And we’re continuing to see the use of it and the growth of.
Well, I go right here, I’m not 23. I met his… is the little package where you can get both your ancestry and your health through some DNA sampling, pretty a little spit and a kit. I haven’t actually opened us up.
I did open up the plastic part ’cause I don’t want you to see me struggle with that, but I do wanna check out quickly. What was inside here.
Very nice I… let’s get started. Everything feels really quite the whole branding and everything that they’ve done with a lot of these packages is all really sweet and kind, as we remind me of candy back when you were a kid and how enticing everything looks. So not too much in there. This is the kit you can see “pittas baby here. We send it in, think eight weeks or so. Actually, it comes back and you get a pretty massive report on both your ancestry and then also your health and even more than that, you actually get a kit of basically your results in raw data as well to it. So I haven’t looked as much into that, but apparently a top of ancestry dot com and 23, and me and a couple of these other platforms of services, there are actually some companies that do more of the broad data so you can actually plug your data in and get even more insights out of that than these other programs will give you.
And so really interesting time that we have the ability to do this, we are in a very early stage in it, and so is just a couple of things that I wanted to talk about in terms of it today.
Just looking at a couple of the looking at 23 me looking at a couple of competitors and then maybe some of the issues around this as well, too. And I have an intern in the office, right now. I felt victim. This is an Amazon Prime falling victim to… and I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, because it was not… we don’t know that much about my family really on both sides, and so it’s quite a mystery a… a lot of the background of our family, and that’s something that I think increasingly, people wanna know as we… as we look forward to the future. So many people, or one understand where they came from, what their history is, what their geology is a part of the world they came from because there so much you can understand and really bring into your life if you know where you came from. And so it’s definitely a drive for this right now. I think the piece of the story telling of being will tell yourself stories of who your ancestors were I think is really enticing. And so there’s no question that this… there’s a reason why this is… they’ve become so paper. And of course with the technology now, it made it easier and ever and I think over time, and obviously what they claim as well. too, the more data they get, the more human genes, they get the ancestry and different connections, especially on Ancestry and the ones where you’re trying to build your family tree, the more accurate these tests are gonna be… I just wanted to pull over here.
I think when I pop up in the corner here, just wanted to take a look at some of the site and everything as well here, too. It’s not ad for a 23 Mile but I just want to look at the stuff and sort of just have just think about a touch a couple of things, look at a couple of things on it and really go through a look at a couple of the competitors and just talk about some of the things around it. And so, the Helen ancestry services, just the one I got was on sale at Amazon.
This gives you both sides important through the whole thing. They are very, very clear that everything is fun and easy and nice to do. King at the different types of 23 pairs of chromosomes. One unique you. There’s a ton of data in a whole thing. seems really cool, and the fact that it’s just saliva, you just have to spin it into it. I think it obviously really lowers the barrier to entry for people who, maybe we’re gonna have to get blood samples, or anything in the past as well too. And so obviously there are some really real benefits about doing this. Just pull up the… how it works. “pahar quickly to see, yeah, just a no blood and order spin luck. We got the pop-up coming up here already fit and discover. So yeah, approximately six to eight weeks. They will send you an email to let you know your reports are online so you can actually then go in, check out the reports and really get a ton of access.
And so I’ve done a little bit of research into everything that people get back of what a couple of these reaction videos for people who are… so getting a result since pretty cool to see a lot of excitement and it does seem to be some really valuable stuff that you can get especially I am interested in seeing the health problems in my family and some of them are like I said, You don’t know the people there, sort of mysteries. And so, hopefully, we get some decent positive results back on that, but that’s it of part of doing this test. And this is where some… one of the first really interesting sort of things comes up with the idea of just learning this stuff. So, I get, I do this test and I get to… you have this gene that puts you at a higher predisposition to cancer. What affects Doug that come out of your life once you know that information? And so the same thing, you know people who go to not a story teller, but a future teller or if they’re trying to get a little bit insights on their future and just because that person says something about your future, then you start to fulfill that and fulfill that prophecy. So that’s a really interesting… a little piece that I’m interested in this whole thing and to see and wonder how many people have felt that way, how many people have gotten results that they were really surprised at and obviously ones that have been the other may be negative or positive, and were increasingly again, say more of the stuff.
One of the really funny things that I saw was there’s a TV show and I’m trying to think of it off the top of the head right now, but what they do is they go back and actually explore they explore like celebrities geology, and all this stuff. And so they had an episode of it, with Larry David on who had actually been playing Bernie Sanders on Saturday live and they actually did the test and found out that Larry David and Bernie Sanders were related, and so it was just one of those hilarious moments and coincidences, and you really start to see how possible some of these connections are and just how intricate your family history it can be. So a couple of things that I wanted to just look at what is your DNA, what can I say about your health? A Street Health rest wellness carrier status and the traits, how accurate are the reports? So I meet standard. They meet standards, and to say 23 met with the claim is that it meets standards for clinical and scientific talent. When I was doing this picking on which one to actually use really was obviously part of it came down to price like most decisions, but from seeing the reviews, especially for looking at the health piece 23 and Me is a really good option if you’re looking to do more of the family tree building and ancestry than you wanna go for more. I think my family DNA ancestry and a couple of other ones here to my heritage, which is I think is a pretty decent one as well, too. 23n thing, I think is crazy is that it was founded by… what’s her name here, it’s Kepler Linda AV Paul A and then an Act in 2006, to provide genetic testing and interpretation to individual consumers in 2007, Google invested 39 million into the company. And the girl a week.
Probably butchering that name. She was actually married to the Google co-founder Sergey Brin at that time. And so, sir, Iran is obviously a legend and one of the founders of Google. It’s really interesting to see the support obviously the marriage help them that, but for a company that we obviously talk a ton about the ramifications of privacy being Google to see that
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