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Be part of an important study on the genetics of sexual orientation

Have you had your DNA analyzed by 23andMe or Ancestry?
Are you 18 years or older?

If you answered YES to these questions, you are eligible to participate in a study on sexual orientation.

The purpose of this research study is to understand how genetics may influence people’s personalities and sexual orientation. If you take part in this online study, we will instruct you how to find your genetic data file on your 23andMe account and upload it to our secure website. We will also ask you to complete a series of questionnaires on your personality and sexual behavior.

Time required to complete the study should be about 15-25 minutes.  

Anyone 18 years or older who has been sexually active and has had a 23andMe or Ancestry analysis is eligible to participate, regardless of sexual orientation.

Please follow this link to begin the study:
https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e5Vi2kF7dFeGGr3

This study is being conducted by the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University, 409 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA.

Please contact the study coordinator Heather Self ([email protected]) or the principal investigator David Puts ([email protected]) for further information.

Be part of an important study on the genetics of sexual orientation

·        Have you had your DNA analyzed by 23andMe or Ancestry?

·        Are you 18 years or older?

If you answered YES to these questions, you are eligible to participate in a study on sexual orientation.

The purpose of this research study is to understand how genetics may influence people’s personalities and sexual orientation. If you take part in this online study, we will instruct you how to find your genetic data file on your 23andMe account and upload it to our secure website. We will also ask you to complete a series of questionnaires on your personality and sexual behavior.

Time required to complete the study should be about 15-25 minutes.

Anyone 18 years or older who has been sexually active and has had a 23andMe or Ancestry analysis is eligible to participate, regardless of sexual orientation.

Please follow this link to begin the study:

https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e5Vi2kF7dFeGGr3

This study is being conducted by the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University, 409 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA.

Please contact the study coordinator Heather Self ([email protected]) or the principal investigator David Puts ([email protected]) for further information.

Be part of an important study on the genetics of sexual orientation

·        Have you had your DNA analyzed by 23andMe or Ancestry?

·        Are you 18 years or older?

If you answered YES to these questions, you are eligible to participate in a study on sexual orientation.

The purpose of this research study is to understand how genetics may influence people’s personalities and sexual orientation. If you take part in this online study, we will instruct you how to find your genetic data file on your 23andMe account and upload it to our secure website. We will also ask you to complete a series of questionnaires on your personality and sexual behavior.

Time required to complete the study should be about 15-25 minutes.

Anyone 18 years or older who has been sexually active and has had a 23andMe or Ancestry analysis is eligible to participate, regardless of sexual orientation.

Please follow this link to begin the study:

https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e5Vi2kF7dFeGGr3

This study is being conducted by the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University, 409 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA.

Please contact the study coordinator Heather Self ([email protected]) or the principal investigator David Puts ([email protected]) for further information.

Be part of an important study on the genetics of sexual orientation

·        Have you had your DNA analyzed by 23andMe or Ancestry?

·        Are you 18 years or older?

If you answered YES to these questions, you are eligible to participate in a study on sexual orientation.

The purpose of this research study is to understand how genetics may influence people’s personalities and sexual orientation. If you take part in this online study, we will instruct you how to find your genetic data file on your 23andMe account and upload it to our secure website. We will also ask you to complete a series of questionnaires on your personality and sexual behavior.

Time required to complete the study should be about 15-25 minutes.

Anyone 18 years or older who has been sexually active and has had a 23andMe or Ancestry analysis is eligible to participate, regardless of sexual orientation.

Please follow this link to begin the study:

https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e5Vi2kF7dFeGGr3

This study is being conducted by the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University, 409 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA.

Please contact the study coordinator Heather Self ([email protected]) or the principal investigator David Puts ([email protected]) for further information.

Be part of an important study on the genetics of sexual orientation

·        Have you had your DNA analyzed by 23andMe or Ancestry?

·        Are you 18 years or older?

If you answered YES to these questions, you are eligible to participate in a study on sexual orientation.

The purpose of this research study is to understand how genetics may influence people’s personalities and sexual orientation. If you take part in this online study, we will instruct you how to find your genetic data file on your 23andMe account and upload it to our secure website. We will also ask you to complete a series of questionnaires on your personality and sexual behavior.

Time required to complete the study should be about 15-25 minutes.

Anyone 18 years or older who has been sexually active and has had a 23andMe or Ancestry analysis is eligible to participate, regardless of sexual orientation.

Please follow this link to begin the study:

https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e5Vi2kF7dFeGGr3

This study is being conducted by the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University, 409 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA.

Please contact the study coordinator Heather Self ([email protected]) or the principal investigator David Puts ([email protected]) for further information.

bravefart:

Hahaha !!

So this happened and I am wondering, what would you do in my situation? 

First, a little history. A few years ago I had some family members’ DNA tested through Ancestry.com. Nothing major in the results, we discovered really nothing new, just the usual cousin match list, details on their DNA and how it differed from mine, and so on. Fast forward to nowadays, and there is now a new relationship match my family member received on his Ancestry.com DNA match list. Those of you that are unfamiliar with the match list on their website, when you have a DNA test done, the results you receive will show what parts of the world your DNA is from, and there will be a list of cousin match’s. Pending on who you have tested, it’s almost always cousins, but the more people that take the test, more likely there will be closer blood relationships that show up. 

Enter my situation. My family member who tested, had a new match. A very close relation match. A child. A NEW CHILD. Not only is this person the correct age for being their child, but they also look like other family members! This person is completely new and to my knowledge, unknown to be out there in the world. 

After reaching out to this person, they never replied and obviously either does not want to know any information or is not ready. Either way, I tried. Now here is my question: Do you tell your family member???? This child does not want contact with their biological family, do you still tell your family “hey, guess what happened??”, knowing they do not want anything to do with them? 

This could potentially cause a major disruption in their lives, in all our lives, perhaps unnecessarily. Maybe even cause some damage. 

So what would you do? Keep the secret or tell? Please share your thoughts on this. Thank you!

It’s become increasingly clear that, as many knew they would, law enforcement agencies are seeking access to genetic information from databases like 23andme and Ancestry.com when trying to solve crimes, and that relatives of people who’ve committed those crimes can be wrongly swept under suspicion as a result. 

In a recent Fusion article, “Cops Are Asking Ancestry.com and 23andme for Their Customers’ DNA,” Kashmir Hill reports on the practice, noting that 23andme has successfully resisted the requests it’s received so far, whereas Ancestry.com has released some information to law enforcement. 

23andMe has since followed the lead of Google, Twitter, and Facebook, releasing a “transparency report” tallying the number of requests it’s received from U.S. law enforcement so far (four, for five user accounts). 

I’m glad to see the company’s privacy officer, Kate Black, touting 23andme’s “dedication to being forthcoming with our customers and doing everything we can to protecting customer information.” In email Black told Hill, “We have not released any customer information to law enforcement, and I’m personally committed to keeping it that way.” Relying on personal commitments and the decency of corporations to keep our genetic data out of the hands of law enforcement is pretty precarious, and I hope one day we’ll see a comprehensive genetic privacy law, but given the government’s vast overreach and secrecy in siphoning up our personal information, I’m not optimistic that a genetic privacy law would be respected even if it passed.

23andMe has also received clearance from the FDA to resume sharing some genetic data – about carrier status for cystic fibrosis, as the New York Times puts it, and other “genetic mutations that could lead to disease” in offspring – with its customers. For now, the company isn’t allowed to share information about health risks, though it isn’t barred from collecting or seeking that information from subscribers’ data…. 

Nor, for that matter, is Ancestry.com barred from seeking it. The company is known for and is, with some caveats, best for genealogy, but unbeknownst to most subscribers it has been positioning itself to get into the health research game, presenting its vast collection of users’ family data, which can include death certificates of ancestors going back a century or more, as a selling-point.