{"id":803,"date":"2020-05-30T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dnaistheway.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2021-05-25T16:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:53:28","slug":"can-a-dna-test-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dnaistheway.com\/can-a-dna-test-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Can A DNA Test Be Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Anyone who\u2019s seen the rise of consumer genomics has also found themselves wondering can a DNA test be wrong? Before we dive into the answer and check out how accurate DNA testing is, let us first understand what DNA is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DNA is the code in your cells. You have 23 pairs of chromosomes made of three billion individual letters of DNA, i.e., 20,000 genes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With all of this knowledge, we are light years ahead of where we started with Mendel and his pea experiments, Sanger and his manual DNA sequencing or even just 10 years ago. Modern genetics has now sequenced the entire human genome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We can now scrutinize all of our DNA in less than a day. The unprecedented speed and decreasing costs of reading DNA have led to an explosion in demand for consumer genomics. This data helps us answer questions of heredity, evolution, and diseases as well as DNA testing closer to home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DNA testing has never been easier for you or the lab that will run your tests, but given that this is a science of probability, can you trust the lab to give you the right results?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Accuracy depends on the fulfillment of criteria: 1) generation and 2) interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n