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I did mine many years ago before their data breach and it was about 70% Mesopotamian and 20% peninsular arab. Rest is Anatolian, african, and some central Asian. I was kind of surprised to see so little turkish in the makeup honestly. It put me in the general area within iraq. Right now I don't trust these companies, not that it matters anymore since our data has been sold years ago but I thought the reports were interesting at the time. I don't really know if genealogy works for people in our countries because not a lot of records are well maintained either.
The most reputable institutes and companies are also at risk of security weaknesses, data breaches, or data leaks. This is inevitable, and it happens frequently to well‑known companies in every field. Basically, no company reports a precise result without the possibility of error or a 100% accurate output. I can’t directly access AncestryDNA, FamilyTreeDNA, or MyHeritage which are well‑known in this field and take a test unless I spend a huge amount of money and travel to another country. But I don’t think their test results would differ much from the sample test I took from a domestic company, aside from possible errors and the lack of a completely definitive result.
Yeah...
https://www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/...uman-rights-crisis-in-the-23andme-bankruptcy/
DNA is a weird one. I remember 10+ years ago when people in SF were "doing the swab" like it was a rite of passage for socialites to discuss at cocktail parties.
I get being curious about your genetic lineage. But people are handing over very personal data and a whole lot more, which didn't add up for me.
23andMeh started with a business model that they could collect a huge human genome database and use it to help diagnose and detect potential genetic linkages to illnesses, diseases, health risks, etc. But the data science was never that good.
Then things got weird. A decade ago I worked at an "exponential think tank" in Silicon Valley, and the eacc leaders offered employees the benefit of having their full genomes scanned as part of employee benefits. A lot of my coworkers were like, "Yeah, sign me up!"
I asked a good friend who got her PhD in genetics at Harvard who worked at a human genome database lab, and she was like, "Why the hell would anyone do that?"
It was funny. She pointed out how there's so much of the genome we don't understand, and all you're going to do is make people freak out that they have genetic mutations (as naturally occur) and worry all their life that something could be wrong with zero evidence that there is and nothing that they could do about it.
There is truth in TMI (too much information) in health. Which is why I am so cynical about all these Oura and other health rings that are trying to IPO. They're seling a belief that collecting more irrelevant data wards off harms from ever reaching you, and they create a dependent psychology where these tools and busy boxes of data streams manifest non-existent physical health problems as debilitating mental health problems in the user.
https://www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/...uman-rights-crisis-in-the-23andme-bankruptcy/
DNA is a weird one. I remember 10+ years ago when people in SF were "doing the swab" like it was a rite of passage for socialites to discuss at cocktail parties.
I get being curious about your genetic lineage. But people are handing over very personal data and a whole lot more, which didn't add up for me.
23andMeh started with a business model that they could collect a huge human genome database and use it to help diagnose and detect potential genetic linkages to illnesses, diseases, health risks, etc. But the data science was never that good.
Then things got weird. A decade ago I worked at an "exponential think tank" in Silicon Valley, and the eacc leaders offered employees the benefit of having their full genomes scanned as part of employee benefits. A lot of my coworkers were like, "Yeah, sign me up!"
I asked a good friend who got her PhD in genetics at Harvard who worked at a human genome database lab, and she was like, "Why the hell would anyone do that?"
It was funny. She pointed out how there's so much of the genome we don't understand, and all you're going to do is make people freak out that they have genetic mutations (as naturally occur) and worry all their life that something could be wrong with zero evidence that there is and nothing that they could do about it.There is truth in TMI (too much information) in health. Which is why I am so cynical about all these Oura and other health rings that are trying to IPO. They're seling a belief that collecting more irrelevant data wards off harms from ever reaching you, and they create a dependent psychology where these tools and busy boxes of data streams manifest non-existent physical health problems as debilitating mental health problems in the user.
This.
I know people who get a good night's sleep and wake up feeling fine. Then they check the "data", which tells them their sleep was interrupted and poor quality. Suddenly they're stressed, and they spend the rest of the day convinced they slept terribly. There's even a name for it (orthosomnia).
I am shocked at the amount of fauxductivity products on the market, and just how much people waste their time and money with useless information that will only cause decision paralysis, self-doubt, and decreased confidence in your existing decisions.
I know people who get a good night's sleep and wake up feeling fine. Then they check the "data", which tells them their sleep was interrupted and poor quality. Suddenly they're stressed, and they spend the rest of the day convinced they slept terribly. There's even a name for it (orthosomnia).
I am shocked at the amount of fauxductivity products on the market, and just how much people waste their time and money with useless information that will only cause decision paralysis, self-doubt, and decreased confidence in your existing decisions.
As a juvenile diabetic for over 30 years, I get it. Human psychology is weird in that you can feel great, but the moment you see a poor health number at random, it's like getting an 'F' on your report card and your mood turns to crap.
As a T1D, I've been living the "quantified life" for medical reasons for a long time. Which is why I don't get able-bodied Walking Worried types with so much time, money, and privilege that they need to invent new health problems to solve. Somehow they decide it's a great idea to cosplay my chronic illness lifestyle.
As a T1D, I've been living the "quantified life" for medical reasons for a long time. Which is why I don't get able-bodied Walking Worried types with so much time, money, and privilege that they need to invent new health problems to solve. Somehow they decide it's a great idea to cosplay my chronic illness lifestyle.
Yeah...
https://www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/...uman-rights-crisis-in-the-23andme-bankruptcy/
DNA is a weird one. I remember 10+ years ago when people in SF were "doing the swab" like it was a rite of passage for socialites to discuss at cocktail parties.
I get being curious about your genetic lineage. But people are handing over very personal data and a whole lot more, which didn't add up for me.
23andMeh started with a business model that they could collect a huge human genome database and use it to help diagnose and detect potential genetic linkages to illnesses, diseases, health risks, etc. But the data science was never that good.
Then things got weird. A decade ago I worked at an "exponential think tank" in Silicon Valley, and the eacc leaders offered employees the benefit of having their full genomes scanned as part of employee benefits. A lot of my coworkers were like, "Yeah, sign me up!"
I asked a good friend who got her PhD in genetics at Harvard who worked at a human genome database lab, and she was like, "Why the hell would anyone do that?" It was funny. She pointed out how there's so much of the genome we don't understand, and all you're going to do is make people freak out that they have genetic mutations (as naturally occur) and worry all their life that something could be wrong with zero evidence that there is and nothing that they could do about it.
There is truth in TMI (too much information) in health. Which is why I am so cynical about all these Oura and other health rings that are trying to IPO. They're seling a belief that collecting more irrelevant data wards off harms from ever reaching you, and they create a dependent psychology where these tools and busy boxes of data streams manifest non-existent physical health problems as debilitating mental health problems in the user.
https://www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/...uman-rights-crisis-in-the-23andme-bankruptcy/
DNA is a weird one. I remember 10+ years ago when people in SF were "doing the swab" like it was a rite of passage for socialites to discuss at cocktail parties.
I get being curious about your genetic lineage. But people are handing over very personal data and a whole lot more, which didn't add up for me.
23andMeh started with a business model that they could collect a huge human genome database and use it to help diagnose and detect potential genetic linkages to illnesses, diseases, health risks, etc. But the data science was never that good.
Then things got weird. A decade ago I worked at an "exponential think tank" in Silicon Valley, and the eacc leaders offered employees the benefit of having their full genomes scanned as part of employee benefits. A lot of my coworkers were like, "Yeah, sign me up!"
I asked a good friend who got her PhD in genetics at Harvard who worked at a human genome database lab, and she was like, "Why the hell would anyone do that?"
It was funny. She pointed out how there's so much of the genome we don't understand, and all you're going to do is make people freak out that they have genetic mutations (as naturally occur) and worry all their life that something could be wrong with zero evidence that there is and nothing that they could do about it.There is truth in TMI (too much information) in health. Which is why I am so cynical about all these Oura and other health rings that are trying to IPO. They're seling a belief that collecting more irrelevant data wards off harms from ever reaching you, and they create a dependent psychology where these tools and busy boxes of data streams manifest non-existent physical health problems as debilitating mental health problems in the user.
There are laws to protect data such as GDPR in Europe but the fact that these companies sell data, or that data becomes public for any reason, can happen in any field and anywhere like leaks of national ID cards, birth certificates or leak of electronic bank card like paypal, master card and so on.
What fascinates me is knowing which ethnic lineage or which region’s people I’m related to or, based on these genetic tests, which geographic region my ancestors came from.
Yeah...
https://www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/...uman-rights-crisis-in-the-23andme-bankruptcy/
DNA is a weird one. I remember 10+ years ago when people in SF were "doing the swab" like it was a rite of passage for socialites to discuss at cocktail parties.
I get being curious about your genetic lineage. But people are handing over very personal data and a whole lot more, which didn't add up for me.
23andMeh started with a business model that they could collect a huge human genome database and use it to help diagnose and detect potential genetic linkages to illnesses, diseases, health risks, etc. But the data science was never that good.
Then things got weird. A decade ago I worked at an "exponential think tank" in Silicon Valley, and the eacc leaders offered employees the benefit of having their full genomes scanned as part of employee benefits. A lot of my coworkers were like, "Yeah, sign me up!"
I asked a good friend who got her PhD in genetics at Harvard who worked at a human genome database lab, and she was like, "Why the hell would anyone do that?" It was funny. She pointed out how there's so much of the genome we don't understand, and all you're going to do is make people freak out that they have genetic mutations (as naturally occur) and worry all their life that something could be wrong with zero evidence that there is and nothing that they could do about it.
There is truth in TMI (too much information) in health. Which is why I am so cynical about all these Oura and other health rings that are trying to IPO. They're seling a belief that collecting more irrelevant data wards off harms from ever reaching you, and they create a dependent psychology where these tools and busy boxes of data streams manifest non-existent physical health problems as debilitating mental health problems in the user.
https://www.hhrjournal.org/2025/06/...uman-rights-crisis-in-the-23andme-bankruptcy/
DNA is a weird one. I remember 10+ years ago when people in SF were "doing the swab" like it was a rite of passage for socialites to discuss at cocktail parties.
I get being curious about your genetic lineage. But people are handing over very personal data and a whole lot more, which didn't add up for me.
23andMeh started with a business model that they could collect a huge human genome database and use it to help diagnose and detect potential genetic linkages to illnesses, diseases, health risks, etc. But the data science was never that good.
Then things got weird. A decade ago I worked at an "exponential think tank" in Silicon Valley, and the eacc leaders offered employees the benefit of having their full genomes scanned as part of employee benefits. A lot of my coworkers were like, "Yeah, sign me up!"
I asked a good friend who got her PhD in genetics at Harvard who worked at a human genome database lab, and she was like, "Why the hell would anyone do that?"
It was funny. She pointed out how there's so much of the genome we don't understand, and all you're going to do is make people freak out that they have genetic mutations (as naturally occur) and worry all their life that something could be wrong with zero evidence that there is and nothing that they could do about it.There is truth in TMI (too much information) in health. Which is why I am so cynical about all these Oura and other health rings that are trying to IPO. They're seling a belief that collecting more irrelevant data wards off harms from ever reaching you, and they create a dependent psychology where these tools and busy boxes of data streams manifest non-existent physical health problems as debilitating mental health problems in the user.
