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How To Check Yourself for Genetic Abnormalities

howto.wired.com — Nearly every day, somebody in the research community claims to have found a genetic marker associated with some sort of health condition. If you are curious and want to check yourself for those inherited traits, there are several options at your disposal. Some are easy, others are quite hard, but none of them are cheap.

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philadelphia, on 07/08/2008, -1/+21I was hoping it was going to be easy, like, check yourself for funny looking moles or irregular rashes.
- easypie, on 07/09/2008, -6/+2In Soviet Russia, Genetic Abnormality has you.
- andareil, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2It is easy, just check your family history(genealogy), genetic diseases don't just erupt out of nowhere. In most of the cases a careful look at the history of diseases in the family both on the paternal and maternal side gives a fair idea of the chance of a disease manifesting in an individual.
  Those people can go for testing not the average joe. Scare people, build a DNA database and in addition make them cough up money for it!
- claypool2008, on 07/09/2008, -1/+0Check your birth certificate. If you come from a "banjo state", there might be a problem with your genes.
- CVL4317, on 07/10/2008, -1/+1I believe the result can be used as "Should I have child or not"
floatingorb, on 07/08/2008, -1/+4Sounds simple enough; The first part is like cloning the cat..umm (work in progress)....Hey Mary, do you take these poptarts out of the bag before you boil them?
jduvall, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2It will be easy, eventually. Some day we will be able to get these tests done at the drug store, and our kids will sort through the data like its second nature.
damian7, on 07/08/2008, -8/+0Sweet, I have AIDS!
- dajuggernaut, on 07/09/2008, -3/+1well then, stay the hell away from me... i don't want to get that again
  - netdroid9, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3Again?!
AbsolutePatriot, on 07/09/2008, -12/+6Sorry YOU aren't FOOLING me. This article is pure globalist propaganda trying to glorify the submission of our genetic material to the police state fascists.

DONT THINK FOR A SECOND THAT ONCE YOUR DNA IS ON A COMPUTER THAT THE GLOBALISTS WONT HAVE ACCESS TO IT

Oh sure, it starts off harmless. All in the name of 'health' and 'research', until theyve made it mandatory that each citizen sends their DNA to a national database.

This is why I wear pants, long sleeve shirt, a hat, and gloves whenever I'm out in public. A single loose hair or piece of skin could be all those globalists need to extract my DNA. After my numerous indiscretions with the law, along with my anti-government "extra curricular" activities, I know i'm on the NWO watch list. They would love nothing more than to take my DNA and perform yet another blackbag drug drop off.

Vote Ron Paul '08, he's the ONLY candidate that won't try and form a natinonal DNA database.
- Danls92, on 07/09/2008, -3/+6Somebody either took too much or too little of their medicine today.
- beerncheese, on 07/09/2008, -2/+4Holy cow. If you want some entertainment, view AbsolutePatriot's other comments. Digg this guy up just cause he's so crazy it is funny.
- serif69, on 07/09/2008, -2/+5Vote Ron Paul '08, he's the ONLY candidate who will personally distribute tin foil hats.
  - AbsolutePatriot, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2LMAO tinfoil i bet u think ur funny. As if tinfoil does *****.
    
    you need a helmet with at least a quarter inch of reinforced lead to block out HAARP's most powerful rays. especially if they're aiming them at you
    
    its heavy, but when the globalists activate it, u'll wish you had it
  - floatingorb, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Here is what the DoD has to say about 'tinfoil':
    http://digg.com/general_sciences/DOD_Report_Bioeff ...
    
    Now, what was that about "hats" again?
- iharbinger, on 07/09/2008, -1/+0wat
- KaiSe7eN, on 07/09/2008, -1/+3ALEX JONES ALEX JONES ALEX JONES!!!!!!!!!!!
- AbsolutePatriot, on 07/09/2008, -3/+1LOLOL go ahead and call me crazy...its globalist boot licking ***** like you who labeled me "mentally ill" and shoved pills down my throat until i was 18. pills that dampen the mind, and weaken the soul.
  
  never again.
  
  they'll try and give you those pills too, you know. And this time, they wont be asking
  - BuddingMonkey, on 07/09/2008, -2/+4you need a lead pill... to the face
  - AbsolutePatriot, on 07/09/2008, -2/+1LMAO continue to lick facist boot all you want. it will gain you no favor with the globalists when the round up begins
  - cheule, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1Trust me, before you even said it... I had guessed you had a history of mental illness in your past.
- easypie, on 07/09/2008, -2/+1Ron Paul's an *****, just like you.
- toyrifle1, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1Obviously you are very smart and always one step ahead of the illuminati, but you`d think they would be able to get a sample of you`re DNA (with or without you wearing a hat) if "they" are such evildoers. Maybe they`ll clone you, and then have the clone kill you in order to take you`re place in society as a genetically modified "perfect citizen" in a new world boredom.
  
  Just because you are paranoid don`t mean they`re not after you! I`d recommend wrapping you`re entire body in aluminum and never leaving the state... better yet, stay in you`re mamas house until the end of 2012... you know why don`t you?
  
  May any God bless you soldier.
  - AbsolutePatriot, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2trust me ive already thought about all that. i never leave the house unless i absolutely have to (court, voting for DR. RONALD PAUL, meetings with probation officer) everything else I have delivered
    
    as for the clones, well, unless they were able to torture me for my knowledge of hidden explosive booby traps (which of course they couldnt because i keep prepared a Sinai capsule at all times for just such a reason), then that clone would have a hell of a time navigating my property
    
    god bless you as well, soldier of faith
  - toyrifle1, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Very very clever.
    
    Makes me wonder if they might not already have cloned you, and you actually are a brain enhanced part man/part android cyborg decoy luring us into admitting dissident attitudes. Thats how brilliant you appear.
  - AbsolutePatriot, on 07/09/2008, -1/+3trust me ive thought of all of this. i regularly perform self invasive intracranial diagnostic surgery just to make sure. if theres an implant, id have found it
  - ssn697, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3Well damn you AbsolutePatriot! Here, I have been trying to goad you into an Epic rant, and you were pulling our legs this whole time!
    
    Well played!
  - floatingorb, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Actually, Lloyds of London will no longer insure a person against "bad behavior by their clone." It used to be a very inexpensive policy.
- serif69, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1Are you a Jeff Goldblum character? Because I'd go see this movie.
  - AbsolutePatriot, on 07/09/2008, -1/+0LMAO keep trying to dehumanize me it wont work u bootlicker
    
    goldblum is a globalist shill who partaked in such zionist-commisioned propaganda films like jurrasic park and independance day, all to make the ideas of retroactive genetic engineering seem 'ridiculous', or the idea of a hostile alien coverup to seem 'impossible'
    
    keep sucking at the globalist teat. it wont make any difference
Danls92, on 07/09/2008, -1/+4NOTE: If you suddenly gain the ability to fly, teleport, shoot beams from your eyes, or generate an elemental force you might have a genetic abnormality.
MillionsLivio, on 07/09/2008, -1/+3"but none of them are cheap"
...and that counts me out.
getjustin, on 07/09/2008, -3/+28Look at driver's license. Does it have your registered in any of the following states?
-Alabama
-Arkansas
-Texas
-Wyoming

Then you may very well have genetic abnormalities.
- aptanalogy, on 07/09/2008, -1/+10If you need to look at your driver's license to figure out where you're registered, then that question is answered-- West Virginia.
- binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2Florida
- lajaw, on 07/09/2008, -5/+1Or the truest test of all. If you have ever considered voting "Democrat" at any point in your life, then you are mutated.
galvo, on 07/09/2008, -0/+5See: third leg.
FuckXboxx, on 07/09/2008, -7/+2This is horse *****.

This is asking people to submit their genetic information for DNA databases so when the government decides to eliminate entire populations based on their genetics, they'll know exactly whom to target.

Wake up people....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053 ...
- Picard102, on 07/09/2008, -1/+5cookoo!
  - FuckXboxx, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2By insulting me you support my argument because you display perfectly your ignorance on the topic and your inability to refute my claim.
- BuddingMonkey, on 07/09/2008, -1/+3Do you NWO people invent this stuff up to bring some purpose to your boring meaningless existence?
  
  I'm sorry nobody cares about you.
  - FuckXboxx, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2Go to 1 hour 25 minutes into the video link I posted.
    
    Refute the evidence...insults are a defensive reaction on your part to delude you from your lack of control. It doesn't help you...learning the facts helps you.
- AbsolutePatriot, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2ITS AMAZING HOW THE SHEEPLE GLORIFY THIS KIND OF SUBMISSION TO THE STATE. READ MY POST ABOVE. I THINK WE'RE THE ONLY ONES GETTING IT
  
  hell, theyll probably continue glorifyiing the facists like the good boot lickers they are even when theyre being rounded up
- ChayD, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I could posssibly understand your argument if these genome sequencing companies were offering the service for free, or if the government were funding these companies, but I doubt many people would be prepared to pay $1k so that would limit the demographic to upper-middle class people, who, it would seem likely wouldn't be targets for a government proposed mass genocide programme should one ever come about.
  - FuckXboxx, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2But you have to also understand that the elite are seeking not only the DNA of the "those to be eliminated" but also the DNA of those who are willing to be little worker ants and who buy into their propaganda.
    
    They want to propagate the drones while eliminating the rogues.
  - floatingorb, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1*Eugenics*
Epistaxis, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2The do-it-yourself version got cut off.

Step 6: align the sequences and scan for polymorphisms
Step 7: search literature for related studies
Step 8: go to med school and become qualified to interpret the results
- FlashBazbo, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Ummm, no. Step 8 should be: Go to graduate school and become qualified to interpret the results. Your typical MD isn't qualified to do this, and may not even know that much about DNA.
Pedwidget, on 07/09/2008, -9/+2If you are a regular DIGGidiot Liberal Nutjob then you have a genetic abnormality amongst other issues.
- revjustin2, on 07/09/2008, -0/+4Your attempt at inventing a new term ("DIGGidiot") has massively failed.
  - ChayD, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Too many syllables, perhaps DIGGiot would scan better?
hakz, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2sorry, not spending a grand
onlyclave, on 07/09/2008, -5/+3If you're a registered Republican you might have a genetic abnormality.
GreatSunJester, on 07/09/2008, -0/+8I tried to check myself for genetic abnormalities, but 3 of my arms got in the way.
googenheim, on 07/09/2008, -0/+142 Arms... CHECK
2 Legs...CHECK
2 Eyes... CHECK
10 Fingers ...CHECK
3 Nipples...? (Possible abnormality noted)
- manonfire285, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Don't make fun, I actually have an auxiliary nipple under my right one.
Rudegar, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I'll get my tentacles right down to the nearest Genetic Counselor
Bodhinature, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Is there an arm growing out of the back of your head? Genetic abnormality spotted.
TheMachine1, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1https://www.23andme.com/store/

The one company charges $999. I'm curious if this company or the other one in the article have any legitimacy? I've heard news story of some genetic counseling companies being total frauds.
easypie, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Oh Noes!! I'm abnormal!!
Fordi, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2I'm not interested until I can get my entire genome sequenced on the cheap. Once I get that, I'll be able to create interpretive art based on the data.
kbowen327, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Best line of the entire article:
The State of California is trying to shut down direct-to-consumer genetic testing services. If this trend spreads, the ad hoc approach may be your next best option. You also may have privacy concerns, or you want to check yourself for a rare genetic marker that is not covered by microarray tests.

Who would have thought that you may have privacy concerns of sending your saliva away for a company to do extensive DNA testing...What if they decided to use your DNA to clone another one of you...but they didn't tell you about it...oh wait that was an Arnold movie...coincidence that he is now the governor of California (the very state trying to shut this down)? I think not!
superpezgeek2, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1i have different colored eyes that resulted from a defect in one of my chromosomes
jfortgang, on 07/09/2008, -2/+1GeneLink has the only patented, FDA reviewed, non-invasive, self-administered DNA collection system available today. No invasive procedures are required and it takes just a few minutes. A person simply swabs the inside of their mouth (inner cheek) and mails the swabs back to GeneLink's laboratories in the special envelopes. Everything - along with easy-to-follow instructions are included.

Just go to http://www.mygenewize.com/ and you can sign-up for a collection kit for $300. You can also be an affiliate in their direct marketing and if you sign up 4 people you get your DNA tailored supplements free for life. You must use this ID # 15791 to sign-up.
- djepik, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1lol sounds legit...
- FlashBazbo, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I'd be tempted to let the cat lick the swab just to see what would come back.
kds405, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2The home test sounds great...if your home is a lab.
trevorbadly, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1Don't pay $1000. There are a ton of sites out there that do DNA testing for less. jfortgang above mentioned one and http://www.codenutrition.com is another. Both of those are like $300.
spage70, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2OK, So who thought it said Genital?!!!
spage70, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2OK, So who thought it said Genital?!!! Hands up!
WhiZa, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Why didn't the title say check yourself for mutations. That sounds much cooler
- MrDave2176, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2So that other genetically anomalous Mutant-Americans wouldn't be offended.
leerayIG88, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I have a tail, is that normal?
tblanchard, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Here's another. http://www.qtrait.com

$500 for everything they do, or specific subsets for less.
Hedgecore, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3Thanks for this. I discovered I have a large thumb growing from my groin.
Jmn187, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1I always wondered what that third ball was for?
Paulish, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2"Ten fingers, ten toes... I'll check the rest later."

I love Stargate Atlantis.
CVL4317, on 07/10/2008, -1/+1I wish that majority of people are smart enough to check and consider not passing their defective genes to genes pool.
floatingorb, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Question: How do you make a whore moan?
Answer: Well, you start by sampling her genes.
caponumen, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1I'm sure the fish we evolved from would find very many.
Everything is relative and dynamic in nature so this article is a kind of nonsense......
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