23andMe saved my friend Lara's life. They discovered her BRCA mutation, which led to her getting an MRI rather than a normal mammogram (which she was too young

23andMe saved my friend Lara's life. They discovered her BRCA mutation, which led to her getting an MRI rather than a normal mammogram (which she was too young for anyway and which missed the tumor). This caught her cancer in time. Her blog about it: https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-genealogy-saved-or-significantly.html?m=1 https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-genealogy-sa... Irony #1: Stupid and paternalistic laws meant she had to mail in her spit kit from another state, rather than Maryland, where she lives. Irony #2: She got her diagnosis the day the FDA shut down 23andMe's ability to give people their medical test results.