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Interestingly, if you use 23andMe's genetic analysis service, it'll tell you how much Neanderthal DNA you have. The average European has 2.7% (I have 3.2%).

a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Has there been any sort of serious audit or quality review of the 23andMe service? I'm dimly curious but would at present guess it's mostly a load of nonsense, and who even knows how replicable their results are.
- will_work4tears 11y ago
  I'm not entirely sure, I mean, from my level of understanding it could all be relatively faked data and I wouldn't know any different. They claim they do quality review[0] and you can compare them to some of the competition[1], and they don't offer anything except genealogy records and your results in a big file you can download. You can use that information to parse on other sites for medical things (there's quite a few sites that take the data file as an upload, actually). I'd be interested in reading a more comprehensive audit though. [0] - https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904760-Quality-Review https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904760... [1] - http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_chart http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_c...
- blacksmith_tb 11y ago
  You can download your raw data, and/or run it through Promethease: https://www.promethease.com/ https://www.promethease.com/ (I will admit to not having compared more than a handful of SNPs with what 23andMe has to say about them, and I suppose they could have tampered with the data, but that seems like a lot of effort for the one-time payment they got from me...)
pavel_lishin 11y ago
Do they allow you to test your DNA anonymously? I have no interest in having a company linking my DNA analysis to my identity.
- SEJeff 11y ago
  No, but for roughly $1k USD, you can have many big hospitals sequence your DNA for you.
- DanBC 11y ago
  They don't want you to test another person's DNA without that person's permission.
  - pavel_lishin 11y ago
    Hm, that's reasonable.

a8da6b0c91d 11y ago

Has there been any sort of serious audit or quality review of the 23andMe service? I'm dimly curious but would at present guess it's mostly a load of nonsense, and who even knows how replicable their results are.

will_work4tears 11y ago
I'm not entirely sure, I mean, from my level of understanding it could all be relatively faked data and I wouldn't know any different. They claim they do quality review[0] and you can compare them to some of the competition[1], and they don't offer anything except genealogy records and your results in a big file you can download. You can use that information to parse on other sites for medical things (there's quite a few sites that take the data file as an upload, actually). I'd be interested in reading a more comprehensive audit though. [0] - https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904760-Quality-Review https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904760... [1] - http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_chart http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_c...
blacksmith_tb 11y ago
You can download your raw data, and/or run it through Promethease: https://www.promethease.com/ https://www.promethease.com/ (I will admit to not having compared more than a handful of SNPs with what 23andMe has to say about them, and I suppose they could have tampered with the data, but that seems like a lot of effort for the one-time payment they got from me...)

pavel_lishin 11y ago

Do they allow you to test your DNA anonymously? I have no interest in having a company linking my DNA analysis to my identity.

SEJeff 11y ago
No, but for roughly $1k USD, you can have many big hospitals sequence your DNA for you.
DanBC 11y ago
They don't want you to test another person's DNA without that person's permission.
- pavel_lishin 11y ago
  Hm, that's reasonable.