The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are - Libby Copeland
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Read by Cindy Kay
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: June 2, 2020
Duration: 11:17:17
A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives
You swab your cheek or spit into a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, an incessant desire to find answers to questions at the core of your being, like “Who am I?” and “Where did I come from?” Welcome to the age of home genetic testing.
In The Lost Family, journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast social experiment with little understanding of the ramifications. Copeland explores the culture of genealogy buffs, the science of DNA, and the business of companies like Ancestry and 23andMe, all while tracing the story of one woman, her unusual results, and a relentless methodical drive for answers that becomes a thoroughly modern genetic detective story.
The Lost Family delves into the many lives that have been irrevocably changed by home DNA tests—a technology that represents the end of family secrets. There are the adoptees who’ve used the tests to find their birth parents; donor-conceived adults who suddenly discover they have more than fifty siblings; hundreds of thousands of Americans who discover their fathers aren’t biologically related to them, a phenomenon so common it is known as a “non-paternity event”; and individuals who are left to grapple with their conceptions of race and ethnicity when their true ancestral histories are discovered. Throughout these accounts, Copeland explores the impulse toward genetic essentialism and raises the question of how much our genes should get to tell us about who we are. With more than thirty million people having undergone home DNA testing, the answer to that question is more important than ever.
Gripping and masterfully told, The Lost Family is a spectacular book on a big, timely subject.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 4/5
December 14th, 2022
Did this. Turns out I am a pirate!
December 15th, 2022
There should BE no family secrets. Nobody should be lied to by their parents about where they come from.
December 15th, 2022
Just last week I found out Elvis is my great grand father.
Thankyouverymuch.
December 15th, 2022
@callmebill - You know you could’ve saved yourself the money for that test.
@Rhio2k - That’s true, but oftentimes your family doesn’t know, or there might be a gatherum of family tales of dubious validity.
I wanted to do the spit test, but my brother (a San Franciscan) tellz me no - he’s worried abt data leakage or summat.
And there was I thinking that the worst thing abt it would be finding out that you’re even a small bit English.
December 16th, 2022
I have Muscular Dystrophy. Back in the late 70s, as a child, the muscle biopsy didn’t come out well enough to tell what kind of MD I have. It was too invasive for the doctors to feel comfortable about trying again. Even now I have a seven inch scar running up my left though. Still truckin’.
So am I. Truckin’, I mean. When I hit my 40s, another MD doctor was like, hrm, you’re not dead yet? Not bedridden? What is this? (I’m wheelchair bound, fyi… for purposes of this story since why cares besides?)
New diagnostics didn’t need a chunk of my muscle, just a bunch of spit. I sent another vial of semen just in case that worked better. (Just kidding!) Turned out I have this super rare form of MD that, I’m told, only 90 or so other people have been known to have since first being discovered 40 years ago. The result is a massive adjustment to expectations of my lifespan. I was like, guys, I already gave away my record collection. Not cool.
December 16th, 2022
You can just d’load all your tunes again, bp.
God bless you, and a very happy Christmas.
December 25th, 2022
So,in summation: u R all products of every generation willing to murderape and inbreed to sustain its dominance and genetic hegemony, bruh,actually?..
Noiyce
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