No more spending endless evenings in the pub or disco to meet your true life partner. No more sitting through long dates with uninteresting people. Never again pay tens of euros to get in touch with that coveted bachelor on the Internet dating site. There is now an organization that claims to have the ideal partner for you: GenePartner. The ideal relationship marketing, you would say. Finding the ideal partner becomes a piece of cake with GenePartner!
GenePartner
GenePartner is a company that has a formula to match men and women by analyzing specific genes in their DNA . This emerged from research based on hundreds of couples with a successful relationship and analyzes of their genetic combination.
Research is carried out on the basis of a sample of your saliva , which is taken from your cheek mucosa for a DNA test. When you meet another GenePartner who you find attractive and interesting, you can enter his or her GenePartnerID in the match system on the GenePartner website and you will immediately see whether you are genetically compatible or not.
Why date based on DNA?
GenePartner analyzes the molecules that play a role in activating immunological factors during an immune response , which are essential for immunity. When two people differ greatly in these specific molecules, they create a greater variety in possible immune responses, which better protects themselves and any children against diseases.
According to the company, we are not attracted to our close relatives because they share our genetic makeup and therefore we are not genetically suitable partners.
Successful relationships
So what GenePartner actually claims is that you have the best relationship with someone who is genetically very different from you. I don’t find this very plausible, because various other studies show that opposites do not attract each other at all, and like-minded people do. This indirectly involves genetic makeup, because a person is always a result of his or her environment and genetic predestination .
Diseases
In my opinion, the ideal partner can be found based on characteristics other than genetic makeup. Consider religious beliefs, attitude to life, age, hobbies, character, etc. I believe that it is very advantageous to form such a genetic combination that reduces the risk of certain diseases. But I don’t think that’s what you build a good, strong relationship around. In fact, I dare say that (mild) illnesses will even improve your relationship if you endure them together!
Hereditary diseases
I have my doubts about the way in which one immune system can influence the other immune system. If the man has a dominant none for disease X, for example, the woman will really not be able to contribute any positive qualities, which reduces the chance that disease The chance that the disease will be inherited is the same, even if the woman has a completely different genetic package than the man.
Homosexuals
What I also wonder is what happens to homosexuals . Since these cannot have children together, the ‘survival of the fittest’ aspect does not play a role. And yet about 3 to 10% of the population appears to be outright homosexual. Do they ignore these genetic rules , or is it not as true as what GenePartner claims?