{"id":179126,"date":"2023-12-25T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T21:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/dna-tests-are-a-fun-holiday-gift-unless-they-reveal-a-horrifying-secret"},"modified":"2023-12-25T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T21:05:14","slug":"dna-tests-are-a-fun-holiday-gift-unless-they-reveal-a-horrifying-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/dna-tests-are-a-fun-holiday-gift-unless-they-reveal-a-horrifying-secret","title":{"rendered":"DNA Tests Are a Fun Holiday Gift\u2026 Unless They Reveal a Horrifying Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-tests-are-a-fun-holiday-gift-unless-they-reveal-a-horrifying-secret2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The holiday season means presents galore \u2014 but in the case of at-home DNA tests, some gifts may be better left unopened.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/health-wellness\/2023\/12\/13\/ancestry-dna-horror-stories\/71833478007\/\" class=\"\">experts told <em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>, the prevalence of self-serve DNA testing has made it much more likely that people discover painful family secrets \u2014 for instance, that one or both of your parents are not your genetic relatives \u2014 upon getting their results.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/sep\/18\/your-fathers-not-your-father-when-dna-tests-reveal-more-than-you-bargained-for\" class=\"\">years now<\/a>, we\u2019ve come across reports about people learning of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/ancestry-dna-stranger-family-tiktok-b2240344.html\" class=\"\">parents\u2019 affairs<\/a> via DNA testing kits from companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/investigators\/i-was-numb-family-secrets-come-to-light-as-dna-testing-gains-popularity\/2117880\/\" class=\"\">Ancestry or 23andme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday season means presents galore \u2014 but in the case of at-home DNA tests, some gifts may be better left unopened. As experts told USA Today, the prevalence of self-serve DNA testing has made it much more likely that people discover painful family secrets \u2014 for instance, that one or both of your parents [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}