Who are the Japanese? New, comprehensive DNA study finds some interesting ancestry in the Japanese

[onetrack]

This comprehensive DNA study is one of the biggest ones carried out on any Asian nation, and it reveals some interesting things about Japanese ancestry, as well as discovering the sizeable number of Asians who have a predisposition to contracting and dying from COVID-19, due to a DNA weakness inherited via Neanderthal genes.

 

https://scitechdaily.com/who-are-the-japanese-new-dna-study-shocks-scientists/

 

Edited October 3 by onetrack

[old man emu]

Perhaps in the future a DNA sample will be taken from a baby at birth, analysed, and a lifetime health plan developed. Sounds good from a public health perspective, but seems it would remove the uncertainty of a person's lifetime health, which is a big part of the gamble of life.

 

I don't decry doing these sort of DNA analyses when the provide enlightenment about the evolution and migration of Mankind, but applying it to the creation of a person's health plan is. to me, taking the information too far.

[Marty_d]

3 hours ago, old man emu said:

Perhaps in the future a DNA sample will be taken from a baby at birth, analysed, and a lifetime health plan developed. Sounds good from a public health perspective, but seems it would remove the uncertainty of a person's lifetime health, which is a big part of the gamble of life.

 

I don't decry doing these sort of DNA analyses when the provide enlightenment about the evolution and migration of Mankind, but applying it to the creation of a person's health plan is. to me, taking the information too far.

Interesting.  I'd have thought the ability to manage your health to live your healthiest life would be a very valuable thing indeed.  Why do you think it's taking it too far?

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Why do you think it's taking it too far?

I know it would be a great thing to be aware of factors that might cause one issues, but to me it puts it in the same category as finding out the sex of a baby in the first trimester. Sort of takes the expectancy out of an expectant birth. I didn't know the sex of my kids until I got the first hold of them. I think that getting that information after going through the months of the pregnancy was one of the most emotional experiences of my life. 

 

On the conspiratorial side of things, I think that having that information available for perusal by others reeks of Orwell's 1984. I know there would be privacy controls, but who trusts those nowadays?

[onetrack]

One of the problems that is arising with DNA sequencing is if you find out that your gene mutuations make you predisposed to certain medical conditions that affect your quality of life, or which will lead to early death or disablement - then the life insurance companies can refuse to insure you, on the basis you're a bad risk, or have a much higher chance than the average person, of making a claim. And they may start to make a DNA test compulsory, before they insure you.

[willedoo]

A bit like opening Pandora's Box.

[spacesailor]

But

it is all conjecture .

With my childhood dance with death.  All the ' learned ' agreed. 

30s would be my final year. 

Now at 82 and still walking , even thou  not ' my dream of flying ' .

The  Royal Air Force threw their hands up after checking my medical

record, & threw me out of the cadets .

spacesailor

 

[nomadpete]

9 hours ago, spacesailor said:

But

it is all conjecture .

With my childhood dance with death.  All the ' learned ' agreed. 

30s would be my final year. 

Now at 82 and still walking , even thou  not ' my dream of flying ' .

The  Royal Air Force threw their hands up after checking my medical

record, & threw me out of the cadets .

spacesailor

 

Good onya Spacey!

[facthunter]

You can STILL fly. It just has to be with someone else.   Nev

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

You can STILL fly. It just has to be with someone else.   Nev

Therein lies the rub. No one is offering him a flight. He's complained about that for ages.

[spacesailor]

Not quite , I have been offered a flight from Wodonga. 

But since I got caught in the big Sydney smoke . ' Cough Cough ' .

I don't get far from all those doctors appointments. 

They seem never-ending .

spacesailor

[spacesailor]

 I seem to have left a Error correction somewhere. 

When I wrote I haven't been able to take that offered flight. It was ( I think ) in ' Echuca Victoria '. Not as I wrote above . Apologies for not taking up the kind offer .

Back to the doctors on Tuesday for a ' foot analyst ' .

To much jumping puddles . LoL

spacesailor

 

[pmccarthy]

It was a skill Alan Marshall was very proud of.

[Bruce Tuncks]

I reckon that dna testing should be VOLUNTARY for over some age. Then we might be able to lessen the number of nut cases around, and save money too. ( I am assuming the refusees are nut cases)

I say "over some age" to stop parents from taking the choice away from their kids, who should make up their own minds. I would choose 18 as the age at which kids might know if the risks of public knowledge outweigh the risks of not knowing. 

If insurance companies choose to not insure you without a dna test, well that's their business and something for the new 18 y/o's to take into account. Personally, i reckon  the insurance companies could easily come up with different rates depending on the dna news or lack thereof.