SciShow | What Can You Actually Learn from Your Genome?

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SciShow: Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: https://skl.sh/scishow-14 Genetic tests can give you advice about what lifestyle, diet, and level of exercise are best for you. But you should take those suggestions with a grain of salt, because, when it comes to our bodies, our genes aren’t so much an open book, as the world’s biggest crossword puzzle. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/depression#genes https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/huntington-disease#genes https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/HBB#location https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/HTT#location https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/dtcgenetictesting/ancestrytesting https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/hgp/genome https://report.nih.gov/nihfactsheets/ViewFactSheet.aspx?csid=43 https://www.biorxiv.org/node/84500.full https://www.genome.gov/19016904/faq-about-genetic-and-genomic-science/ https://www.genome.gov/pages/education/genetictimeline.pdf https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/huntingtons-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20356117 https://www.nature.com/articles/265687a0 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/i-took-batch-dna-tests-so-you-don-t-have-n880386 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781197/pdf/ClinicalCases-5-0149.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4704942/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25282103 https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/sickle-cell-disease https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/01/512859830/which-genes-make-you-taller-a-whole-lot-it-turns-out https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/01/22/579003429/personalized-diets-can-your-genes-really-tell-you-what-to-eat https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170706114559.htm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627314000580 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/health-dna-genetic-testing-disease https://www.sciencenews.org/article/review-genetic-tests-23andme-veritas-genos-health-comparison https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-of-human-height/ https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180327/genetic-testing-do-you-really-want-to-know https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/genetics/brca-fact-sheet https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442111/ https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/VKORC1#location https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/testing/riskslimitations https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21039 https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/VKORC1#conditions ------- Images: http://tinyurl.com/y395ufd6 http://tinyurl.com/yyn6jqpd http://tinyurl.com/yycxxbyo http://tinyurl.com/y6xmnbyz http://tinyurl.com/y3xp9h5m https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huntington%27s_disease_(5880985560).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1911_Sickle_Cells.jpg http://tinyurl.com/y6qvsrah http://tinyurl.com/yyu4cltg http://tinyurl.com/y2d3bs6z http://tinyurl.com/y3gn57sv https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BRCA_Genes.svg http://tinyurl.com/yxnl3y6r http://tinyurl.com/y6osxor4 http://tinyurl.com/y8orc4lb http://tinyurl.com/y3gpqphy http://tinyurl.com/y2zn53yt http://tinyurl.com/y5uthgrl http://tinyurl.com/yxf6zu39 http://tinyurl.com/y5lzrgn3 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Single_nucleotide_polymorphism_substitution_mutation_diagram_-_cytosine_to_thymine.png http://tinyurl.com/y3n3y7mm
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