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How To Check Yourself For Abnormal Genes

Posted by timothy on from the first-grab-some-family-photos dept.

AnneWoahHickey writes "While the State of California was harassing personalized genomics companies, and hindering the development of personalized medicine, Wired was preparing a guide to genetic testing. It explains how to make sense of the massive sets of raw data offered by 23andMe or deCODEme, and a way to check yourself for genetic abnormalities that are not covered by microarray tests. Facing a medical community that is fiercely resistant to change, the fate of personalized medicine is truly in the hands of consumers."

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  1. Oh Come ON! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You up reading Slashdot at this hour. Don't worry about checking. You got 'em.

  2. don't worry by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you're reading this, you're unlikely to have offspring.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

    1. Re:don't worry by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have three CDs from The Offspring, you insensitive clod!

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      Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
    2. Re:don't worry by AioKits · · Score: 3, Funny

      Are they in different containers? Gotta keep em separated, after all...

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      "Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
  3. All my Genes are slightly unusual... by hyperz69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I shop at the Levi Irregular Outlet. Good prices!

    1. Re:All my Genes are slightly unusual... by Pascoea · · Score: 4, Funny

      I have found that as long as your jeans don't say abercrombie, american-eagle, jnco, or hollister, and they cover your entire ass, they are perfectly ok. It's those other "irregular" jeans that people should be checking for, and doing our best to weed out of the population. I find it is very easy to lure them into a big hole. All you have to do is drag some obscenely big sunglasses along on a string. Kind of like fishing, for stupid people.

  4. Up next. by AltGrendel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reading assembler code without a reference manual for the masses.

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    The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination

    - Douglas Adams

  5. Re:Next up - how to remove your own liver by Thanshin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bucket? Stapler?

    I think you're talking about the more advanced operation "How to remove your liver and live just long enough to put it in a bucket.

    People should start with "Remove your liver" that just requires the knife, and then grow up to more complex things.

    If you enjoyed this comment you may also like:
    "Replacing your blood with pink lemonade and how to stop the brutal pain".

  6. How to do it the cheap easy way: by julian67 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Use a mirror. Pointy head? alarmingly low/thick/broad brow? Lantern jaw? Narrow eyes remarkably close together? Then you probably won't easily get medical insurance, what with all the hooch and the home grown tobaccy. But never mind, you still got your banjo, your smooth bore and your free AOL CD.

    1. Re:How to do it the cheap easy way: by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't know about you, but MY squirrel pot-pies always start out with dead squirrels. That way, I don't have to chase them around the kitchen.

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      Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
  7. Superheroes by needs2bfree · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally! A way to find out why I get green and big when I get angry!

  8. Back to the source by wild_quinine · · Score: 3, Funny

    And remember, if you see something you don't like you've got the source code...

  9. Step 1 by The+Wookie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Step 1: Hold your leftmost tentacle approximately 4-6 inches from your middle eye.

  10. Look in the mirror by blueforce · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you have a huge proboscis and you're wearing Jordache, you're screwed on both counts.

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    If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
  11. Re:How would you tell a significant other by bsDaemon · · Score: 2, Funny

    about said genetic abnormalities? I have one that caused me(and my brother) to be born with 6 fingers....

    I know someone who is looking for you...

  12. So I should return the PCR stuff I just bought? by smakdaddy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey is that a mutation in your genes or are you just happy to see me?

  13. I wonder if I can by genotyped for free by EmagGeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    by filing a Freedom of Information Act request against the FBI, which has undoubtedly already taken my DNA from some place or another under a secret government civilian spy program...

  14. Re:In Other News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And we'll teach you how to become one of the talking heads!

    Its simple, remove your head, and Ta f***in Da! You're a talking head!!