Not sure if this is good or bad

[Lean L]

Well if I'm at 95th percentile anything (or deviated from the 50th percentile mark by a good amount at all), it should mean that the genes are more varied and less prone to disease?

/ blanket statement

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Well if I'm at 95th percentile anything (or deviated from the 50th percentile mark by a good amount at all), it should mean that the genes are more varied and less prone to disease?

/ blanket statement

The 95th percentile says nothing about being less prone to disease.

 

[SlickSnake]

Well if I'm at 95th percentile anything (or deviated from the 50th percentile mark by a good amount at all), it should mean that the genes are more varied and less prone to disease?

/ blanket statement

I'm 2.6% and related to Otzi the Iceman.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2367370

 

[SlickSnake]

The 95th percentile says nothing about being less prone to disease.

This kind of confusion is an example of why the FDA was complaining about the medical part of the gene analysis 23 And ME was doing.

I think you have to understand that if normally you might have a 1% chance or possibility of some disease, and they tell you you have a 100% increased chance or risk of that disease, then that might raise your chance of getting the disease to 2%. It don't mean you will have a 100% chance of getting the disease. If I am interpreting the data percentages right.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Lean L]

The 95th percentile says nothing about being less prone to disease.

Doesn't it? We can break it down to how viruses and bacteria attack cells but essentially the most common strands cater to the most common genotypes. I said blanket statement since the information present is not enough to say anything at all. More variance from the common genetic pool means less likely to be sick. This is also a blanket statement since we have much more refined ways to more accurately tell how likely a person is to get a certain disease but the principle is there.

@Slick, this is a percentile reading of how much essentially foreign genetics are in a person, which means higher or lower than 50% increases variance compared to the typical 2.7%. Doesn't quite have much to do with the other readings at all. Everything on that site is speculative. The values can only hold true in a very controlled lab environment where the test group is European (I say European since that's what most of the research was conducted on).