My Own Private Gene Pool?

The other day, I read Gentle Reader Sideon's post about attending his birth mother's family reunion. Like him, I am an adoptee. Recently, I've also read some articles about how accurate genetic testing has become wrt health conditions that run in families. Additionally, many geneticists believe that autism has a genetic link, and it might be helpful to have as much genetic information as I could get wrt my own kids. We've volunteered for a genetic history study, and it would be nice to give up as much information as we can. Anyhow, I was motivated to get on Westlaw and see what information I might be able to obtain about my own birth parents.

Texas, like most states, currently requires a court order for an adoptee to gain access to his or her entire file, but state law allows adoptees to obtain a genetic and health history of birth parents, to the extent such a history has been reported. I may request that information, though I doubt much will be there. The Legislature is considering a bill that would allow the disclosure of birth parents' actual identities, but, as it stands now, that bill won't apply to me. I don't really care about the identity of my birth parents for its own sake, but I would be interested in any genetic information I could get. In the end, I may need to petition for a court order and hope to obtain the entire file, then go from there.