The Edge Of Madness

Yeah, my lingo might be a little off here, so sue me.

Anyway, had some spare cash and went and got my DNA analyzed (well SNP Genotyping) via 23andMe

If you create an account over there, add me, and I know you, I'll share my details if you're curious.

Otherwise here's another analysis of it all via snpedia.

This web page is 10 megs big, so be patient. http://www.theedgeofmadness.com/brad-promethease-snpedia.html

Yes I know this tech is very much in it's infancy, so I don't put much store in most of it. Some of it is right though (esp in regards to the diabetes).

Highlights are (anything in brackets is my comments):

• Increased risk for type-2 diabete (Yep, big family history of this)
• stronger cravings for alcohol; (Well, my last blog post was about a trip across 3 countries to get some beer.....)
• lactose intolerant (Nah, I'm fine with lactose)
• longer lifespan (Fuck, my retirement plans are going to have to change, or I'm eating cat food for the last 20 years)
• significantly higher anxiety levels after moderate caffeine consumption (Yep, that's true, caffine screws me up)
• higher risk for hypertension (Yep, had to deal with it a few times)
• somewhat higher IQ and 3+ IQ points (fuck yeah, me smart)
• increased susceptibility to novelty seeking (hahahahaha)
• paternal haplogroup R1a1. R1a arose 15,000 years ago in the vicinity of Ukraine. Today it is found at high frequency (more than 40%) from the Czech Republic across to the Altai Mountains in Siberia and south throughout Central Asia (This means it's highly likely me and Lana are related )

Loading Lana's through this Promethease at the moment, I'll post her results up when it's done. She's happy to share them as well.

EDIT:

And here's Lana's.

http://www.theedgeofmadness.com/lana-promethease-snpedia.html

Stuff that makes sense for her.

• possibly increased sprint/power performance (She's got reflexes like a snake and is freakisly strong)
• double normal metabolism (All she eats are cakes and she's way too skinny)
• ~0.8cm taller (Nah, this one has to be wrong )
• somewhat higher IQ & 3+ IQ points (Fair enough)
• 1.1x increased risk for osteoarthritis (Well she does have dodgy knees)

All in all, it's pretty damn interesting. But like Horoscopes the risk is you make the circumstances fit the description. Anyway, I've got to go into detail most of this. Interesting thing is you can read all the research papers on this and make your own call.

I'll also upload the raw data shortly.