Had Kai been born here he would have had genetic testing at birth. Because he was adopted we weren't granted that right and we had to apply and appeal three times. He was finally granted genetic testing. It's pricey and rare. We just got a definitive result this week. He has Bardet-Biedle Syndrome. Which we all knew already but his pediatrician wanted it official. We did genetic counseling to make sure we would be ok if the syndrome was different than we were anticipating. We all agreed it would be better to be prepared. Then when the result was in and the geneticist called she told me there were two variants confirming Bardet-Biedle and no other variants detected so no other syndromes added. Wow. And that possibility hadn't even occurred to me. So it was good news after all. It does feel good to have that battle closed and the official diagnosis.
Onto DNA...
All of our kits came back.
Lili is 100% Chinese (which is rare we're told)
Fei is 99.9% Chinese (smidge Korean)
Jia is 99.3% Chinese (Northern Asian)
Kai is 97.6% Chinese (Japanese, Korean, North American)
Luk is 97.8% Chinese (Vietnamese and Indonesian)
None of the kids had any relative matches closer than a third cousin.
I'm 74% British/Irish, 13% French/German and then a bunch of other backgrounds in small amounts including Spanish and Italian. I had a first cousin I don't know show up.
Eric is 51% Finnish, 15% British/Irish, 10% French/German and the rest European. Eric's uncle Mike and cousin Gina showed up. So we know it works.
