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My wife is on a number of genetic genealogy Facebook groups, and this time of year is peak season for confused new posters who are desperately trying to get som
by jasongill 5y ago
My wife is on a number of genetic genealogy Facebook groups, and this time of year is peak season for confused new posters who are desperately trying to get some rationalization as to why their father (or mother!) didn't match with them on 23andMe. Many just cannot accept reality and continue posting convoluted possible reasons ("23andMe messed up both me and my fathers tests, but we both still matched with lots of other people?"). It's quite sad at times
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoI did hear a story about one of the genetic testing places accidentally rotating one of their sample trays 90 degrees.
- anotherman554 5y agoWhy do you think the 23andme results can't be wrong? Many years ago my father was once given hospital test results stating he was terminally ill with a heart condition. He knew he was somehow given a different patient's test result under his name when when his family doctor asked him if he exercises (he does) and the doctor said "That can't be your patient record. You wouldn't be able to exercise if your heart was as sick as the test result states." My father is still alive and exercising regularly today.
- bell-cot 5y agoIn a world which contains huge, systematic lab screw-ups (such as the FBI Crime Lab scandals), is there good reason to believe that 23andMe is particularly reliable and competent? Vs...one of our clients at $DayJob is a home mold inspection lab. Keeping their modest mold lab Officially Certified requires daily duplication, replication, etc. of dozens of individual test results, plus statistical analysis of those, plus...