NOVA scienceNOW | Personal Genome Project | PBS

[gadionson1]

wow ..

[Almond2000]

Not all people of partial or predominant African descent get sickle cell.Both parents have to carry the gene. A lot of " African Americans" also have significant amounts of White and Native American ancestry.That goes for other mixed race descended people as well( Latinos). Sickle cell is also found amongst Mediterranean peoples as well.

[lipsonice10]

Mr. Lazevnick drinks Gatorade

[oscard1113]

its the food we eat

[itslikeadrill]

IT'S SHADOW MOSES ALL OVER AGAIN

[MrMoonshiner]

Oh man...That's the very first thing that went through my head after I watched this video. Then I started worrying about FoxDie.

[Yaokus5000]

Videos like these should be more popular..

[link0587]

Agreed.

[trying2bnormal]

oooooh where do I sign up? I am an abnormal person, I'm pretty sure my DNA is weird.

[si96]

Check out the Personal Genome Project site.

And it's not to be taken lightly. Very intimate information may be made public, and you could suffer because of discrimination (i.e. paternity, ancestry, potential diseases).

I signed up to get more information from them... but I don't know if I'll go through with it. Who knows what diseases I don't know I might be getting later in my life? Do I want to know? O.o

[trying2bnormal]

Yeah maybe I would like to get my DNA secrets made public even if it means the possibility of discrimination.

Though I went to their site as you suggested, they charge a fee of 1000 dollars. This is not a good idea since only a subset or a non-random sample of our population's DNA would be sequenced. This would constitute a biased sample and therefore the studies relying on this sample wouldn't be reliable.

[monkey7532678]

I am currently participating. There is no fee. Though they ask for a donation it is not required, and the amount you donate does not influence eligibility to participate.

[suzbailey23]

@trying2bnormal: good point... there's significant sample reliability issues caused when the sample is derived from A) people who can afford internet access, and B) people who can afford to shell out a thousand bucks to participate. I'm shocked that they would make such a simple error. How disappointing!

[jenie212]

Aw man, I wish I could see this. But no luck. I live all the way in Indonesia.