Comments on: Free 23andMe genotyping

By: DrHobo

DrHobo — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:13:29 +0000

I just signed up,hopefully they will take me since I have an extremely unusual racial mixture of Moluccan(some of the smallest islands inbetween Indonesia and New Guinea) and Romanian/Hungarian Ashkenazi Jewish…

By: NotMyNormalName

NotMyNormalName — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:26:16 +0000

Btw, there are obvious reasons for the people running this to not answer, but I do wonder if anyone wants to suggest groups that would be desired for this. I’m pure WASP/Ashkenazi, so presumably I’d be a near-last choice, but I do wonder what the first choices would be

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:14:58 +0000

I applied.

I wonder what my Russian Mennonite ancestry will reveal about myself since the family can trace their ancestry back to the Netherlands and we speak Low German in Canada; yet we are phoneotypically Slavic in appearance.

By: NotMyNormalName

NotMyNormalName — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:15:22 +0000

Thanks for the notice/opportunity.

I’ll probably try to get my wife to sign up, since she’d presumably be of more interest, being from a family that’s lived for generations in one of the more backward towns/regions in the world, and I’ve been wanting to get her on 23andme for a while now.

By: Zachary Latif

Zachary Latif — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:00:51 +0000

I applied and I’m excited/apprehensive at the same time ha.

By: Bastian

Bastian — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:52:47 +0000

@abc: Thanks for pointing to the slides. These might indeed be useful for the application process. As are the other blogposts on the openSNP-blog.

@Bobby: We won’t release the real names of the successful applicants (we will only need it once, to set the shipping location for 23andMe) and you can use openSNP using a pseudonym of choice. So it is possible to do this without leaking your real name to the web.

By: Bobby LaVesh

Bobby LaVesh — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:39:15 +0000

There is a link to a video in the form that I will certainly watch later before filling out the form and submitting. Just scanned over everything for now.

Does anyone know- will my real-name be associated with the DNA they collect. I have an unusual name (for all my hunting on the internet- I am the only one with my name); no, it isn’t Bobby LaVesh. Bob LaVesh (actually “bab leves”) is Hungarian for Bean Soup.

I’ve been very carefull to keep my real name off the internet to protect myself from being searchable- I’d love to do this 23 and me thing- happy for the results to be public- but only if my name is not publicly linked to it.

By: abc

abc — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:21:29 +0000

When filling up the form, you might want to watch the video or read the slides for some background info. They have linked to both, but the slides website is some flash-based. You can get the PDF from https://github.com/drsnuggles/opensnp28c3/blob/master/slides.pdf

Oh… and… thanks, Razib!

By: Bastian

Bastian — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:10:14 +0000

Hey Jenn, thanks for pointing out that the link for the shipping costs doesn’t work as expected. It seems the link only works if you have an item in the 23andMe shopping cart. So you can use https://www.23andme.com/store/cart/ to add an item and then proceed to checkout. This should take you to the shipping-cost-page we linked to in the application-form. On the page you can select your country and the shipping fees will get adjusted. I now also added this information to application-form as well.

But don’t worry if it works. In doubt we will look it up for you while screening all the applications, it is just to make it a bit easier for us.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:30:15 +0000

This is pretty cool!

Bastian, if you’re still looking here – The link in the form to check shipping cost is busted

By: Bastian

Bastian — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:17:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing this with your readers. It would be cool if you find the time to discuss this some time