The promise and peril of reading your genome in 2017 (or for that matter, 2018)

I recently learned that AncestryDNA added the feature of downloading your genome for analysis, so I did it, and ran it through Promothease.

Interesting stuff, mostly all stuff I already knew. I was giving my sister a play-by-play of the neat things I was finding in the Promethease report when I came across a 7x increased chance of Schizophrenia.

Me: “Oh wow! 7x chance of Schizophrenia”
Sis: “Do you think there’s a chance you’ll get it at this age?”
Me: “We don’t think so, no”
Sis: “UGH.”

I troll my sister a lot.

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