There is actually more to the story. When I called Ancestry they told me that kits that had been in the lab for more than 12 months were considered degraded and they would not use it after that 12 month period. It was after this conversation that the Ancestry employee told me that I also had to be concerned about the age of unutilized kits. I mentioned that I had one left from the last bunch that I had purchased during a sale time and that was when the employee suggested that it was too old.
Also, one has to wonder how long kits are sitting with Ancestry before they mail them out. There is also no warning that kits should be stored in cool places or otherwise.
Thanks again, Bill. I typically buy batches of Ancestry DNA test kits and keep them on hand for cousin and adoptee testing. I gone through about kits per year for some time now without any issues.
Phyllis, Thanks for the answer and information. Since I buy fewer than you do, I was concerned about travelling long distances and finding that a kit was degraded when I opened it for a cousin to use. I understand that Ancestry will replace them, but the trip will be for naught if the kit is not useable when I need it. I was just surprised when the Ancestry employee was concerned about shelf life and expiration of a kit.
In the future I plan on writing the date that I received the kit on the box, so that I know for sure when it came into my possession. Thanks again Bill. Roberta, thanks for the comment and yes that was my concern as well. I am planning a big trip to Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia and hope to have several distant cousins do their DNA so that we can further prove our relatedness. If you are going to use this file on sites like GEDmatch, it may be useful to know the build number as well as the chip version.
The first few lines of my raw DNA look like below. See the letters under the genotype column? You may be getting flashbacks to high school biology. I do recommend it. You should protect your raw DNA file in the same way that you secure your banking information. That could be a password-protected folder, or in offline storage. Why should you keep your genetic data in the DNA Vault, instead of storing it on a computer or cloud drive? Once it has been copied or accessed by a malicious external party, they will be able to analyze it over and over again and even identify you based on it.
In a world where consumer genomics is becoming the norm, ensuring the privacy of your most personal and sensitive data, your DNA, is more important than ever. This is why we created the DNA Vault. In the DNA Vault, your data is anonymized, encrypted, and secured with top of the line practices and protocols, to ensure it cannot be accessed or connected to you personally in any way. We also keep the DNA Vault free, because at Lumminary we believe that the privacy of genetic data should be a universal right.
Why is this relevant to 23andMe users If 23andMe continue restricting external access to data, they could choose to limit or terminate availability for end users to the raw data files - making it impossible for you to access your own data or reuse it to buy other services. Get geeky with your info! You can import it into an Excel spreadsheet to easily search it. Or join as a Genetic Lifehacks member , which will allow you to see your genetic data in all of the articles.
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