I would like it! But… for a good reason.hmmm…..I have no idea why lol

I want to profile my grandparents while I still can, so we can get more accurate data for the family's history.

Me! Me! Me! I have been researching my ancestry for more than a decade and this would answer a lot of questions for me.

i am a cancer scientist and i'm super curious about my own genetic markers and DNA data. obviously, as a scientist i'm not making enough to buy a kit for myself, so this will be wonderful!

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An adopted mother and apathetic father from a small family mean I know very little about my family history, both health-wise and genealogically. Mendel inspired me to go into biology from a young age, so I love this kind of thing, too.

Ces Merveilleux! I would like to learn my family health and history as my parents are immigrants from a poor country with no papers or history on my family.

Would love to get the kit to lean more about myself and my ancestry. I've always been interested in genetics (and now work at a Biotech company), so also have academic curiosity about how the kit and report works

I – like everybody else on the planet – crave certainty, even when it's not really written in stone, but just a little cheat sheet to help me try to understand my past, present, and future.

I want to give this kit to my uncle so we can find out more about my mom's side of the family.

just for finding out if I'm such a badass and post the results on facebok

My family loves to keep secrets.

My grandmother didn't tell anyone she had breast cancer until someone noticed the tumor creeping out onto her shoulder. We don't know what killed my grandfather. We think it was something to do with his liver. My grandmother knew what it was, but wouldn't tell anyone else. My other grandfather died of colon cancer that eventually spread all over his body. He didn't tell anyone until his eyes turned yellow and he couldn't hide it anymore. A distant cousin of mine recently told me he pried some information out of some of the older relatives. We have quite a few genetically linked diseases in our family – rheumatoid arthritis, crone's disease, seizure disorders, OCD and more.

When I was young, my father was in the hospital for “complications from knee surgery”. My mother had an “allergic reaction to some medicine”. My grandmother “hurt her leg”. None of these were really accurate, but I didn't question them because I was young. It turned out that my father had blood clots that traveled to his lungs after knee surgery. My grandmother also had clots that had formed in her calf after she sat for too long.

I didn't know any of this until blood clots nearly killed me a year ago. I had an outpatient hip surgery to repair a tear. No one told me about my heightened risk for clots. No one told me I might have a clotting disorder.

Eleven days after my surgery, I was rushed to the emergency room. I had hundreds of clots in my lungs, some so big they cut off oxygen to the tissue completely. Part of one of my lungs died. They said I should have died. I almost left my 7 year old daughter without a mother.

I'll be taking medicine for the rest of my life to prevent it from happening again, medicine I should have been taking right after my surgery had I known my risks.

All because my family loves to keep secrets. Since my family won't reveal their secrets, I'm hoping a 23andMe kit can.

My mother would love this! She's very curious about her genes, and a 23andMe genotyping would be an awesome birthday/Mother's Day/Christmas/random gift.

I'd like to learn more about my paternal line without asking my biological father.

I'd give it to my wife. She's a leukemia survivor and I'm hoping the more genetic information 23andme can get from cancer survivors the closer they can get to discovering a genetic link (if there is one).

I would love this particularly for the ancestry painting. I've no idea where my dad was from, but everywhere in the world I go, people speak to me in the local language, thinking I'm a local!! I'd love to finally know what I'm made up of!!

I have dabbled in some genealogy in the past on my mother's side but I have no relatives on my father's. I would love to have an idea where my ancestral line comes from. Who knows, maybe I will locate my long lost cousins in England and Ireland.

It would be exciting to give this to my best friend who doesn't really know where his origins are from.

I'm really curious about my racial heritage. On my mother's side, it's almost all people of mixed race marrying people of mixed race, for way back. The genealogists of my family have estimated I'm between ? and ¼ Black and Native American. Of course that's based on family tree math, not DNA math. Based on family photos, there's almost certainly some Asian blood in me too. But kind of wring my hands over whether I have the right to call myself “multiracial” since socially I feel like I'm basically treated as White. Occasionally people think I'm Hispanic or Arabic, which ironically are two things I have no reason to think I am. Well, scratch that — my dad's of German Jewish descent, but his skin is actually *darker* than my mom's, and he thinks his family might have originally been Sephardi Jews. He basically knows nothing about his family tree from before his grandparents emigrated to the US. Anyway, the bottom line is that it would be nice to have some grounding for thinking about this, even if it's all a social construct anyway.

In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think it would be REALLY awesome. This is something that's oscillated between nagging curiosity and full blown angst, for my whole life. My mom's family is really sensitive about members who have “passed” as white — like my grandmother's brother, who basically disowned his family. On the other hand, I feel insanely guilty about claiming to be anything but white, when I'm the full beneficiary of White Privilege. GAH.

Anyway, if you read that, *you* ought to win a prize.

P.S. my birthday's tomorrow.

P.P.S. On a more somber note a certain chance that my sister or I have genes for schizophrenia or bipolar or one of the other “brand name” Serious Mental Disorders. And that's all I know. Seriously, fuck family genetic “secrets.”

Erica:

I'd like a better idea what my elevated risk factors are, because my living relatives have vague or bad info about our own family histories And certainly, I'd be fascinated to see the deep background of ancestry as well. I suspect there's a bit more racial mixing in our background than my parents believe, and it would be neat to see

I'd like a complete 23andMe genotyping because it'd be awesome to be able to analyze my own genetic data after spending a graduate career analyzing other people's

This is for a love in my life that would like to see her paternal Haplogroup!

dna's so cool in what it can tell you, be ever so grateful erica!

hmmm interesting . . .