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Subject: Re: [DNA] Czech Republic and DNA Testing Company
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:18:52 +0200 (CEST)
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, wrote:
> _http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/21/dna-testing-in-the-czech-republic/_
Dr. Lei a <irony>"little bit"</irony> warps the facts.
1.
>ancestry tests costing about $55.80
Test by Genomac costs 2x more [2500 CZK].
2.
>Genomac is not much different than DNA testing companies in other countries.
May be yes, may be not.
But in the Czech Republic is by law prohibited to keep DNA samples of
induvidual persons. Genomac does keep samples without goverment permission.
3.
Any commericial database of DNA profiles must be registered.
The Genomac's database is not registerd.
4.
Genomac as a result of its genographic test solds a map downloaded from
YHDR database with erased copyright and without YHDR permission.
I bought Y-DNA test at Genomac for me and also from some of my relatives
last year. As a admin o "Genebaze" [www.genebaze.cz] a genealogy website
and in the name of genealogy community I offered to Genomac a
cooperation, especially in a search for common ancestors. It refused.
By the same time [last September] Genomac decided to sell ONLY
YHDR maps, NOT markers values! After my query it started to sell marker
values for aditional raised price.
I hope Genomac will soon fulfill the law and open its database. It
promises that search the its database will find one's ancestors and
relatives.
What makes me sad is the fact that Genomac still refuses to prepare test
for more than 12 markers [<cite>"12 is enough, whe YHDR as a reference has
less markers"</cite>] and also refuses to store data about most distant
ancestors.
It refuses to evaluate obtained haplotypes by any haplogroup predictions.
Instead of it, it produces a "certificate of origin" with these results:
"west-slavic", "romanic", "south-slavic", "scandinavian-german",
"mediterran-balkanic-north african", "mediterran-near east-asian",
"baltic-scandinavian-siberian" and "mediterran-kaukasic".
Dont laugh, its true!
As a result of its very efficient marketing, people refuse to make test
for more than 12 markers "because they have from Genomac all data".
I will inform this list when Genomac opens database.
Ludvik Urban,
Genebáze and its amateur Czech and Slovak Y-DNA, mtDNA database:
<http://www.genebaze.cz/cgi-bin/cyd.cgi?lang=us&n=cz>;
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