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Human genetics research fellow here (well, it's one of my hats). For those of you who signed up for 23andMe, or who wanted to, can you explain your rationale to
by carbocation 17y ago
Human genetics research fellow here (well, it's one of my hats). For those of you who signed up for 23andMe, or who wanted to, can you explain your rationale to me?
- khafra 17y agoI would've bought it for $99, but I didn't seem to have access to that deal. I hope I know sooner if it comes around again. The reason is that I have an aunt who's really interested in genealogy. Genetically tracing her heritage back to Lucy seems like an awesome Christmas present; and quite a bit of the health-related stuff should be applicable to me too, if she shared all the data.
- carbocation 17y agoThey're using one of the 600,000 SNP chips, it seems, so that is plenty powerful to derive ancestry information. The they explicitly say that their product should not be used for trying to divine health predictions, and for most diseases I would agree with them. My guess is that risk prediction for a substantial set of diseases probably won't be done well until 2020 or so. We've only just begun to open the spigot.