Why I cannot stand tomatoes!

After a long time, my dzone rss finally got me a cool article. It was titled as Ten things that will change your future. The title was catchy enough to follow the link and start reading it. The article is really nicely written and although I am not sure about the future but I certainly got to know a lot about the various services web is providing now-a-days. But the most interesting of all to me was this website called 23AndMe. The website read -

With the tagline “genetics just got personal”, 23AndMe allows anyone to unlock their own genetic history – and likely future. For $US1000 the service (named after the 23 pairs of human chromosomes) will reveal whether you have a predisposition to arthritis or Alzheimer’s or, more frivolously, why you can’t stand tomatoes.

Wo wo! why I can’t stand tomatoes? Is it really my gene, not me, who dislikes this beautiful fruit? And I am not the only one, there are others like me? (A line you will constantly hear in heroes!) Cool!

23AndMe customers provide a sample of saliva from which technicians extract the DNA for analysis. When the results are in, customers are given a secure login that allows them to explore their own genome at their leisure, revealing their genetic “family” around the world as well as their likely future health.

I first heard about this genetic family tracing in the Operah prime time. In one show the lead actor of the movie Last king of Scotland was there and he mentioned that he had gone through this DNA test and found his origin is from Nigeria (I think). Although the idea seemed interesting to me, I couldn’t understand how it was possible to trace back generation like that. Well 23AndMe seems to be providing this service and they also have some nice tutorials on how these chromosome and nucleus stuff works. Maybe someday I will do the test .. I wonder how far they can trace back.