DNA testing coming to Canada

[redforever]

Is this a service you would use? Would you want to know if you had a gene that would eventually kill you? Would having a defective gene stop you from having children in the future even if there was only a remote chance you could pass it on?

http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc....abc&date=False

[Nufy]

You are..............................NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!the father......................................

[worth]

Nope. Don't care. If I die tomorrow, so be it. I don't want to die tomorrow, but if I did, I wouldn't be thinking, "man I should have taken that DNA test and maybe I could have prevented it."

[4X4]

Half assed looks like a scam. You send them a grand, they send you a cup to spit in, then they post their findings on their website?

Lemme guess: You have a 48% chance of getting cancer, 22% chance of diabetes, 100% chance of dying eventually...

[redforever]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Half assed looks like a scam. You send them a grand, they send you a cup to spit in, then they post their findings on their website?

Lemme guess: You have a 48% chance of getting cancer, 22% chance of diabetes, 100% chance of dying eventually...

Very similar to what a lot of people find out from a routine MRI as well. Suddenly they find new stuff they never knew they had and now they have a conundrum, should I get this fixed, or will things stay the same?

[PowerPlayoffs06]

I'd be interested in this more from a geneological point rather than to know about whether I have a disposition to certain health defects. Where they'll take a swab of your cheek and tell you about your ancestors and what not from around the globe. That'd be awesome.

I don't think I want to know if I'm going to get heart disease someday.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by Nufy

You are..............................NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!the father......................................

[REDVAN]

I would like to find out all about my genes so that I could change my lifestyle. If I am pre-disposed to some sort of illness, I would want to take steps to avoid that, if I knew for sure it was coming.

And to address the counterpoint before you guys bring it up (ie/ why don't you just behave healthily now?) Because is it fun to eat only healthy, to not drink too much, to walk everywhere, etc. No. So I don't want to do it if I don't have to.

So yeah this would be sweet.

[Nufy]

Originally Posted by Russic

Thank God.... I was hoping someone would catch on to my joke.......

[flamey_mcflame]

I'm waiting for the day that technological surveillance and biological and dna data will be everywhere. Then I'll know who keyed my car that one day. Jerk.