$1000 for a complete genome sequence! Wow, where do I sign up? More to the point, when can I sign up? Today you can get a full genome analysis for about $100.000. A wee bit too expensive for my blood. I wonder when it will be feasible for officious science geeks like myself.. Dawkins thinks it won’t be later than 2050. Hmm, I might just live to see it. It would be cool to be in league with the likes of Steven Pinker. Not to mention the euphoria that you’ll feel from reading the transcription and interpretation of your ultimate material make up, the full recipe of your bodily machinery. Talk about a holy book!
19/01/2009 at 21:12
I am getting my mitochondrial DNA sequenced soon. I got the kit from The Genographic Project. (https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html)
Very exciting.
I wanna do the 23 and me kit if I have enough money.
20/01/2009 at 04:08
I checked the price of 23 and me upon reading Pinker’s article and it’s borderline in my limits, I can just about afford it if I’m willing to suffer its monetary consequences for the next 2 months. Small price to pay for scientific insight of this proportion, I’m thinking.. But there’s a bigger problem: they don’t deliver kits to Turkey. All our non-Muslim neighbours, even Azerbaijan is there (I would think we were close enough), but Turkey isn’t. How come? Maybe they are afraid of the uproar that could be caused by some people when they realize that ‘Turkishness’ doesn’t reside in each of us in a predetermined fashion, and the blood that run in our veins are not nobler than any other fellow human’s counterpart, I don’t know..
Could we workaround this by ordering a kit to a US address and (you know where this is going) handle the shipment between US-Turkey (and Turkey-US) by our own means and send it back to the company? You know there is a $100 discount if you order 2 or more kits? If only I knew someone with a keen mind who lived in the States, and one that doesn’t feel like kicking himself (note the ambiguity) in the teeth for agreeing to help me on other transactions in the first place, hmmm.. :))
Regarding TGP, I’m not entirely convinced how the method works, though admiteddly I only skim-read the site. My reservation is, don’t you need absouletly everyone on Earth to participate to the project in order to draw a accurate picture of our migration routes? Or at best you’ll have to include representative samples of every race and sub-race on the planet, don’t you? Surely African tribes must be included, and are they? I’m sure scientists involved are way ahead of me on this, I’m just trying to make sense of the situation. But in any case, if I were to do the test, I’d also get my mitochondria sequenced, instead of my Y chromosome. It would be nice to know that you are the only male on that particular and idiosyncratic journey that you embarked and one that you now hold the logbook of in your hands. Chauvinistic? Maybe. Take it up to my genes.
25/02/2009 at 17:17
şempanzelerle,genlerimizin %96 aynı olduğu düşünürsek…immm..bu para benden çıkar mı?çıkmaz..