2019-05-06, DNA Test (2)
When I first saw the test results that I will receive later once they finish the lab work, I really hesitated a little bit. Do I really want to know whether U have those cancer genes? Or in other words, suppose a fortune teller can tell you when you are going to die, would you even want to know? But I signed up anyways. I thought to myself, just man up! If I know anything is going to go wrong to my health, it's better to know it earlier so that some preventive procedures can be my options.
After filling up the forms, the actual sampling procedure was pretty simple. I just opened the test kit, took the test vial from the box, spat a little bit of my saliva into the vial, and closed the cover of the vial. Then put the vial back into the box, closed and sealed the box. And dropped it to a mailbox. Two weeks later, I received the results.
The test results came back as a link to a website. Because the information was so comprehensive, I had to log on to their website to see the entire report. I nervously read through the online report. I didn't have any of those scary cancer-causing DNA markers. Thank God!
Some interesting facts.
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- My ancestry can be traced back to a woman lived 40,000 years ago in a village in East Africa.
- We all have more or less Neanderthal (a distinct ancient human race whom we usually called "caveman") DNA variances except people are still in Africa and never migrated out of the region.
- Do you think you are 100% Chinese? Wrong. I'm 90.% according to the test results.
- I'm "most unlikely to have cheek dimples". The fact is, I don't. There are a lot of nuance facts like this one in the "Traits" report.
- And one of the reports that I liked the most: I could have been an elite athlete based on my muscle composition!
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