not so personal genomics

So my idea of requesting sponsorship for getting my 23andme results processed and sharing the results was already carried out successfully by some one named Andrew Meyer. Follow his progress on his blog .  

Mike Arrington also has a nice post about his decision to give it a try and his fears about what it might tell him (and other people) about himself.  I think one of the reasons he's been such a successful blogger is how incredibly quotable his writing is.  To sum up why, despite the list of fears he discusses, he went ahead and sent in his spit, he says:

"The future is coming, and I want to know"

My sentiments exactly.

national genographic

If blogging renders your mind naked, what does genetic testing do to your body?

I was very excited to finally collect the results of my participation in IBM and National Geographic's Genographic project today. As you can see from the picture above, I am a proud member of Haplogroup I (M170) .

For more info on M170 and the other haplotypes, just have a browse around the genographic link above, its pretty cool. It will be much more interesting when they have more data of course, but lots of good fodder for the imagination already.