This interests me, but I'm on the fence. Part of me thinks that I would like to know, but the other half is content with ignorance. Most of these testing companies are very new, and there could be errors. If I knew I had a strong likelihood to develop Alzheimer's, I wonder how I would react to this news. There's not much you can do at the moment. I imagine I would fret, or plan a suicide for the future. ;-) On the other hand, if there was compelling evidence that I probably would develop breast cancer, I could do something about it.

My feeling is that I will try to behave in a way to prevent the big killers: stroke, heart disease, and type II diabetes. And monitor my health closely for disease that runs in my family. The other stuff is pretty much out of my hands.

I'd do it, to see if there was some way to solve some of my problems by nutrition or drugs. A thousand dollars if nothing if it could make a difference in your life. I'd do it just to see how many of my characteristics could really be racked up to genetics.

Googling geneporn shows some hits. But it looks like geneporn.com is wide open if you want it.

I'd like to find out if my brilliance and sexiness is genetic or enviornmental. The world needs to know.

If I had an extra $1000 lying around I might do it. I've wanted to do ancestor thingie as well, but don't want to spend the $100 or so (?) to get it done.

I wouldn't do it for personal reasons, but if making my genome information available to my progeny would materially benefit them (aid in diagnosis of disease, guidance about genetic pre-disposition to medical conditions, or reproductive choices) I'd aid them, at their request, by doing so, without checking the results myself. For one thing, I'm old enough that I've already outlived many serious genetic diseases that such testing could have informed me about; those that are likely in my future are very likely to be my means off this merry-go-round, and I'd just as soon not forecast them, but deal when the time comes.

I watched a cousin to my boys, born just 5 months before my oldest, grow up, until the age of 14, with cystic fibrosis. In 1971, the disease was only diagnosed after a child was born with it, by tests done on fingernail clippings of newborns. My brother-in-law and his wife both happened to be carriers, and their son got CF. My oldest son was born, and didn't have it. There was no history of CF in my family, as far as I knew. So, we bet on my family history, and had a second child, who also doesn't have the disease. But they grew up in near daily contact with their cousin, and when that boy died at 14, there was great heartbreak in the family, although his whole life had been overshadowed by the grim odds of CF in those days, and his death, constantly expected, was no easier for his parents to handle, for being something they had constantly guarded against. Moreover, my boys had what I characterize as a mild case of survivor's guilt, through much of their childhoods, and for sometime thereafter. So, for such diseases, and for things like Huntington's Disease, the certain knowledge of the cause of a disease that may help with treatment, but for which complete cures aren't available, and an early death is likely, are very problematic. Tragedy foreshadowed is tragedy magnified.

Now, I also know that there is some pre-disposition to schizophrenia and diabetes in my mother's family history, and I think I'd owe whatever information my DNA could offer about the future prospects of those conditions to my kids, and their kids, because both are debilitating but treatable diseases, where early diagnosis and intervention makes a big difference in outcome and longevity. So, for my heirs, knowing what they want to about my genetic makeup could potentially benefit their lives, or those of their descendants. But for me, it's basically too late, and I really couldn't care less, personally.