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The upside is getting potentially profound information about yourself, in a way that is inexpensive and convenient. There are also significant benefits to biol
by throwaway4567 11y ago
The upside is getting potentially profound information about yourself, in a way that is inexpensive and convenient.
There are also significant benefits to biological research. Most genetic variation is rare, and the effect of each of these rare variants is small, but they add up. Having access to larger datasets will allow us to be able to better correlate those variants to diseases. 23andme is already doing this with Genentech: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/01/06/surprise-with-60-million-genentech-deal-23andme-has-a-business-plan/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/01/06/surpris....
- mirimir 11y agoI do get that. But what if 23andme or Genentech starts selling people's data to health and life insurance firms? And maybe employers will want that data, just as they want credit reports etc. There ought to be meaningful privacy protection, in my opinion.
- gergles 11y agoGINA prohibits them from selling it to health insurance firms or employers. Not life insurance firms, yet, though.