General Discussion

They took some blood, (they are looking for genetic ways to prevent/ some diseases).

About three months after I donated the blood, I got a generic genetic report.
I found two things that were interesting.
I have Ashkenazi Jew genes, a part of my family history that was unknown, at least to me. The rest were Northern European, which I did know of, German, English, and Dutch. The Ashkenazi Jew stuck out, and I wonder why that was never mentioned (perhaps nobody else knew?).

Then there was this "weird" thing: You don't like Cilantro.
Well, I don't like Cilantro, I don't even enjoy smelling it growing in gardens. But what startled me was that there was a "Cilantro gene".

This had me pondering just how far genetics has come. Ashkenazi Jew, OK, but Cilantro...WTF?
There is a genetic test for Cilantro?

I refuse to go to a commercial DNA conduit. I trust the VA to keep things tight.
One good thing, it stimulated me to look into genetics more closely.