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RE: How Genetics Will Define Our Future Diets 👨🏻🔬 (Drew's Digest #02)
I plan on purchasing a genetic test from one of the ancestry companies in the near future at the same time as a loved one. Perhaps I am just not creative enough, but I can't think of any particular threat posed by my genetic sequence being recorded I fear. Walking past an 8 year-old clone of myself, albeit creepy, would be fairly flattering in a way.
Hi thisismework,
I think what a lot of people fear isn't so much finding they've been cloned (White Girls... anyone?) but that using their genome aspects of their past or future may be compromised. Imagine if everyones information went public and (all hypothetical here) it turned out you were related to a known criminal... or your parents weren't your real parents... or everyone now knows you carry a high risk of (or many repeats for) Parkinsons and now no one will date you because they know any kids you have will probably get the disease... or you've a hereditary hypercholesterinaemia and your job wont invest in educating you because it's too high risk you'll just drop dead.
It's a little bit out there or GATACA style, but these are the eventualities that some people fear!
Also just a side note... be careful which company you opt to go with for those genetic test kits! Some are quite dodgy (hear a report of a bloke who sent in dog DNA and recieved a full report back... no one had noticed it wasn't human DNA and apparently the dog was vagualy related to both Gehnsis Kahn (who isn't) and Shakespear!
Haha that is a valid point. There are a lot of concerns about how genetic data could be used in the future and that is why some choose to shy away and not have any testing done - and I understand their reasoning.