{"id":542,"date":"2006-03-29T06:42:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T12:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2006-03-28T21:43:02","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T03:43:02","slug":"consumers-turn-to-their-dna-for-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2006\/03\/29\/consumers-turn-to-their-dna-for-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers Turn To Their DNA For Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe has a business article from the Associated Press, by Adam Geller, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/personalfinance\/articles\/2006\/03\/28\/consumers_turn_to_their_dna_for_answers\/\">Consumers turn to their DNA for answers<\/a>, about, you guessed it, DNA testing and its uses, and its growing market.  While they focus on one genealogist, Art Thomas, and mention quite a bit of detail about what all is involved when it comes to DNA testing and genealogy, they also focus on what is apparently a booming business.  They also mention some of the other uses (genetic diseases, paternity, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/personalfinance\/articles\/2006\/03\/28\/consumers_turn_to_their_dna_for_answers\/\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last fall, Thomas, a retired information technology manager in Springfield, Ohio, turned to his body for answers. He scraped a cell sample from inside his cheek, mailed the swab to a test lab and waited for science to supplement his extensive genealogical research.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas&#8217; quest to unlock the secrets of his own DNA is far from a solitary one. A small, but fast-growing number of consumers are paying for a proliferation of partly self-administered genetic tests, hoping to determine everything from paternity to their propensity to develop certain diseases to their own ancestry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didnt&#8217; realize that Target sold DNA kits.  Who new?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe has a business article from the Associated Press, by Adam Geller, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/personalfinance\/articles\/2006\/03\/28\/consumers_turn_to_their_dna_for_answers\/\">Consumers turn to their DNA for answers<\/a>, about, you guessed it, DNA testing and its uses, and its growing market.  While they focus on one genealogist, Art Thomas, and mention quite a bit of detail about what all is involved when it comes to DNA testing and genealogy, they also focus on what is apparently a booming business.  They also mention some of the other uses (genetic diseases, paternity, etc.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}