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Can I really be blamed if my craving for coffee is IN MY GENES?!?
Your genetic echoes can affect some of your traits, but unfortunately it still doesn't give you a pass for drawing on walls when you were a kid.
"Everyone should do this test and participate in the added research. I was amazed how accurate the ancestry was and how many DNA relatives it located for me. —Amazon Customer
"Buying this test was the best money I have ever spent in my entire life. The knowledge they give you is incredible. I wish everyone had a chance to know and understand their DNA. I just ordered kits for three family members. Anytime I see any study in the news about genetics and how they found this gene associated with this disease, etc., I can log in to 23andMe, pull up my data, and see if I carry that mutation or not. So geeky, but soooo cool." —Jess
"I found the wellness reports interesting. One thing it told me was that I was likely lactose intolerant — this is something I suspected about myself, but I have never been diagnosed. (I believe I have a mild case.) There is also information on how you react to low-fat diets as well as details about sleep." —Dr. Beth
Unfortunately, procrastination habits aren't included so we can't use it to justify our late holiday shopping. That'll have to remain a mystery for now, but at least we'll know how likely we are to enjoy asparagus as much as the next person!
"Just six months into researching my father's DNA, I found my grandfather's family and figured out who he really was. I wanted to ensure that my information was correct and so I contacted the daughters of the man I believed to be my grandfather's brother and offered to test them both. Their test results confirmed they were indeed our first cousins. I have since been in contact with close and distant family via this newly discovered paternal side and even obtained a copy of my grandfather's family surname book. His absence was even recorded in the book! I solved an 83-year mystery and gained a family I longed my entire life to know about. I cannot be more thankful that these tests are available and that it gives us such ability to solve things that seem impossible." —Coastal Girl
"Found out my husband of 35 years is my sixth cousin, eeew!!!!!! No lie! Now I spend my days trying to figure out the link. We bought two of these and he did it as well. He found out he is a descendant of Lewis, as in Lewis and Clark! He met a cool cousin he never knew he had (other than me, lol)." —Marty and Patty
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