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This is well and good. But what about going back from 'ancestry discovery' to 'full medical discovery' just like originally conceived? FDA put a stupid ban on
by fizixer 11y ago
This is well and good. But what about going back from 'ancestry discovery' to 'full medical discovery' just like originally conceived?
FDA put a stupid ban on them, and then they got something approved but that was a fraction of what they were offering previously.
Just another example of how politics and bureaucracy is hampering progress.
- adevine 11y agoYeah, I was and 23andMe customer before the ban, and I loved the data it provided. In particular, I thought 23andMe did an excellent job of describing the statistics behind genetics in layperson terms (that is, it wasn't "you're going to get this disease", but "out of a 100 people, 3 people without this gene got it, but 6 people with this gene did get it", together with great illustrations and more details to explain the probability). I thought the fact that the FDA thought consumers would be confused or overwhelmed by the analysis was kind of insulting to anyone with an elementary school education.