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From: "Bruce P Barrett" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Why have test privacy
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:25:07 -0500
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I agree with making all public. However what does it tell us relative to
diseases etc? If it doesn't reveal that type of information that fact needs
to be made public.


Bruce P. Barrett


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark and Gary" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Why have test privacy


> Thanks Grant,
> I must be missing something because I don't find your arguments
> compelling....one in a million longshot, that somebody won't like what is
> posted. What Y-chromosome test exactly shows Huntington Chorea or
> Frederick's Ataxia or any medial condition?
>
> I just don't think Web Site owners have much of a reason. I think PRIVATE
> data bases have a motive.... eventually to sell their data.... our
data....
> but why aren't we showing the full story.... especially if the testing
party
> agrees to it being posted.
>
> I agree with your comment that <<Some of it will disappear when common
> people realize that DNA for Genealogy doesn't reveal as much as having
your
> name painted on your mailbox.>>
> Thanks
> Gary
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Why have test privacy
>
>
> In a message dated 12/19/02 6:24:56 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> > Why do people want privacy? What is the downside? Why keep DNA tested
> > families private. Isn't the purpose of DNA is to see who links to whom.
> > Why the charade on so many web sites.
> >
> Some of that is because of Spam. People don't want information published
> online that can be harvested by spammers. Also, identity theft is a
problem.
> There are reasons to avoid putting any personal information online.
However,
> I think there is a generalized tenebrous idea about what DNA for genealogy
> can show.
>
> People are worried that genetic medical conditions will show up in a
family,
> especially when you start testing DNA. Do you want to have an association
> with Huntington Chorea or Frederick's Ataxia just because another person
> with
> your surname has it?
>
> There are other reasons too, having to do with African roots. It is not
> uncommon for some people to not expose what they suspect might be true.
Why
> open a can of worms? When you toss in a little bit of morality, like some
of
> Grandma's kids were blond, blue-eyed, and ruddy skinned but Uncle John
sure
> had dark skin and extremely curly hair.
>
> Some of those problems will disappear as the Internet matures. Some of it
> will disappear when common people realize that DNA for Genealogy doesn't
> reveal as much as having your name painted on your mailbox. We'll get more
> test subjects when it is not so exotic. I'm curious how my father's mtDNA,
> which is almost but not quite a match with Haplogroup U-2, got into a
woman
> from Alabama or Georgia before 1800.
>
> Grant W. Johnston, Chico, CA
> Ask me about DNA, the genealogy tool for the 21st Century.
>
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