Have Any Of You Done Any DNA Genetic Testing?

[Daysleeper40]

I don't have a problem.
I asked a simple question is all.
I hope you get the answers you require .
I also hope you are spared any questions you don't.

Well even though I created the thread, it looks as if my presence won't allow it to run it's course peacefully. Which is a shame. I will ask Marcel if he can remove my right to post in it, so you guys can enjoy the (hopefully) pertinent discussion about this kind of service.
Have fun all.

Well this has all got a bit overblown hasn't it...

For what it's worth I think the ancestry element on its own would be very interesting - depending on the cost of course.

 

[Maggie52]

Oh what a shame, I was really interested in this thread

Last year I was tested for BRACA 2 gene, eight out of ten of my close relatives had tested positive. It was first discovered when one of my nieces developed breast cancer in her early twenties. It turns out that it was most likely passed down via my mothers side of the family. It was an extremely worrying episode for myself and my brother. He is the father of three girls who all have daughters and I have three sons and I'm grandmother to identical quad girls.

I'm happy to say myself and brother tested negative, so presume my mother was clear though her sisters were not as fortunate

I wish you good health Fi x

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

I was being helpful. Really can't understand why you can't see that. I even gave you the link.

You could just have said yes.

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

Well even though I created the thread, it looks as if my presence won't allow it to run it's course peacefully. Which is a shame. I will ask Marcel if he can remove my right to post in it, so you guys can enjoy the (hopefully) pertinent discussion about this kind of service.
Have fun all.

Well, you certainly don't need the test to confirm that you have the childish gene
Was looking forward to hearing your results.

 

[Daysleeper40]

Oh what a shame, I was really interested in this thread

Last year I was tested for BRACA 2 gene, eight out of ten of my close relatives had tested positive. It was first discovered when one of my nieces developed breast cancer in her early twenties. It turns out that it was most likely passed down via my mothers side of the family. It was an extremely worrying episode for myself and my brother. He is the father of three girls who all have daughters and I have three sons and I'm grandmother to identical quad girls.

I'm happy to say myself and brother tested negative, so presume my mother was clear though her sisters were not as fortunate

I wish you good health Fi x

Thank you very much Margaret - and I wish the same to your niece. Could you pass this link along to your niece please as she may find it helpful: https://www.facebook.com/YoungerBreastCancerNetwork/?fref=ts

It is a closed / private Facebook group that I help to run. We are all younger women with a breast cancer diagnosis and basically offer each other peer support. It can be very difficult being the youngest person in the oncology waiting room by about 30 years and having people in your own age range to chat to is really helpful. If she wants to join then she just needs to send us a message via the Facebook Page on that link.

 

[Maggie52]

Thank you very much Margaret - and I wish the same to your niece. Could you pass this link along to your niece please as she may find it helpful: https://www.facebook.com/YoungerBreastCancerNetwork/?fref=ts

It is a closed / private Facebook group that I help to run. We are all younger women with a breast cancer diagnosis and basically offer each other peer support. It can be very difficult being the youngest person in the oncology waiting room by about 30 years and having people in your own age range to chat to is really helpful. If she wants to join then she just needs to send us a message via the Facebook Page on that link.

Thank you very much Fi, I will pass the info on. It was all a bit of a whirlwind really which I'm sure you will understand. my best wishes to you all.

Coincidently, just prior to finding out about the genetic link in our family, my close friend had also been diagnosed with BC and tested positive to the BRACA 2 gene. She was 38 at this time. She was treated successfully and elected to have double mastectomy and also removal of her ovaries. Because of this I was quite familiar with the implications of a positive result for myself. Luckily for me I got the all clear but it was a very worrying time. My Mum's sister had three daughters all tested positive, they all have adult children who are also positive. They are all at various stages of treatment.

I wish you good health Fi x

 

[OldCarlos]

It can be very difficult being the youngest person in the oncology waiting room

My wife said similar when she was diagnosed, although she was 44 at the time. It must be even more daunting for the very young women who are affected.
My wife has been on the BC Pals website for years, but that FB group seems a fabulous idea. Well done Fi

 

[Daysleeper40]

My wife said similar when she was diagnosed, although she was 44 at the time. It must be even more daunting for the very young women who are affected.
My wife has been on the BC Pals website for years, but that FB group seems a fabulous idea. Well done Fi

Thanks Carl - we are up to over 2000 members and it is so apparent how different some of the issues are compared to the older demographic associated with breast cancer. Fertility, young families, career interuption - some of our youngest members are having to put university on hold... others are being diagnosed while they are pregnant. Of course there is also the ladies living with secondary cancer and having to face end of life - they often seem forgotton in the pinkification of breast cancer awareness month etc. I hate how many members we have and I hate even more how many we have lost to this disease - but the group has helped me massively so it is good to be able to now offer that support to our newer members.

I hope your wife is well and stays that way xx

 

[OldCarlos]

It's also about the partners/family etc & their worry/mental suffering (to a lesser degree of course) & not only about the surgery, chemo, hair loss, radiotherapy etc that the patient has to endure over many many months. The more support there is out there, can only benefit everyone involved.

Thank you Fi.
(she's 16 yrs on & still doing great)

 

[StewartR]

I'm sometimes half tempted to do this for a bit of fun...

We have a running joke in my family that my sister and I aren't really related.

My blood group is B+. My sister is O+. My mum was O+. (I'm 100% sure about that because when I was 18 I got into blood donation by going along with her. But it's not critical to the story). And my dad was AB+. But that's where it starts to get awkward. My blood type is perfectly compatible with my parents': my genotype is BO with a B from my father and an O from my mother. But my sister's isn't: with parents who are AB and O you can be A (genotype AO) or B (genotype BO, like me), but you can't be O. Since my sister is O, it follows that her parents can be O, A (genotype AO), or B (genotype BO) - in fact, anything but AB.

Obviously there was a mix-up at the hospital, we joke. Except that doesn't work, because I was born at hospital and she was born at home, so if there as a mix-up it was with me, but I'm not the one whose parentage is in doubt.

Maybe my dad wasn't AB. Maybe he was B (genotype BO), which would explain things. But that seems highly unlikely. He died a long while ago so unfortunately we can't ask him. But my mum was always positive that he was AB - it was typed when he did his national service in the RAF, and he was a blood donor - and his sister (my aunt) says he was AB. Before she retired she was a consultant haematologist, so you'd think she ought not to get that wrong.

So the obvious next part of the joke is that my sister had a different father. That's no big deal these days, of course, but it was in the early 1960s! However that doesn't work either, because she looks like "my" dad and I don't, and anyway she's only 11 months younger than me, and neither of us can imagine our mum cheating on my dad at any time, let alone when she would have had a 2-month-old baby!

So it's a great mystery. It would be interesting to settle it. But perhaps it would be more fun in the long run not to....

 

[Maggie52]

I'm sometimes half tempted to do this for a bit of fun...

We have a running joke in my family that my sister and I aren't really related.

My blood group is B+. My sister is O+. My mum was O+. (I'm 100% sure about that because when I was 18 I got into blood donation by going along with her. But it's not critical to the story). And my dad was AB+. But that's where it starts to get awkward. My blood type is perfectly compatible with my parents': my genotype is BO with a B from my father and an O from my mother. But my sister's isn't: with parents who are AB and O you can be A (genotype AO) or B (genotype BO, like me), but you can't be O. Since my sister is O, it follows that her parents can be O, A (genotype AO), or B (genotype BO) - in fact, anything but AB.

Obviously there was a mix-up at the hospital, we joke. Except that doesn't work, because I was born at hospital and she was born at home, so if there as a mix-up it was with me, but I'm not the one whose parentage is in doubt.

Maybe my dad wasn't AB. Maybe he was B (genotype BO), which would explain things. But that seems highly unlikely. He died a long while ago so unfortunately we can't ask him. But my mum was always positive that he was AB - it was typed when he did his national service in the RAF, and he was a blood donor - and his sister (my aunt) says he was AB. Before she retired she was a consultant haematologist, so you'd think she ought not to get that wrong.

So the obvious next part of the joke is that my sister had a different father. That's no big deal these days, of course, but it was in the early 1960s! However that doesn't work either, because she looks like "my" dad and I don't, and anyway she's only 11 months younger than me, and neither of us can imagine our mum cheating on my dad at any time, let alone when she would have had a 2-month-old baby!

So it's a great mystery. It would be interesting to settle it. But perhaps it would be more fun in the long run not to....

Strange indeed Some things are just best left alone

 

[Alastair]

But my mum was always positive that he was AB - it was typed when he did his national service in the RAF, and he was a blood donor - and his sister (my aunt) says he was AB

Are you going by people's memory,or do you have either his blood donor record or national service papers with the type on it? Memories are funny things, folk can get something set in their head that's not supported by evidence.

Although it has to be said, when it comes to genealogy if you haven't found both a murderer and a case of anomalous parentage then you're not trying hard enough.. ..

 

[Maggie52]

I agree with Alastair, relying on people's memories and beliefs is not the most reliable evidence. Things are often repeated in families, passed down the generations and repeated as fact.