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> but I suspect that they are also bending to market demand for meaningless information like how 1 or 2 of your 64 great-great-great-great-grandparents happened
by 40acres 9y ago
> but I suspect that they are also bending to market demand for meaningless information like how 1 or 2 of your 64 great-great-great-great-grandparents happened to share some genetics with a bunch of people from the Asian steppes.
What if some people really want to know this? My family is from the Caribbean, I will never be able to trace back my family history as deep as others because my ancestors were slaves, 23andme seems like a great service. Especially in a time with so much racial animosity in the US, maybe if people had a deeper look at where they come from they would have sympathy for others.
- epmaybe 9y agoThat's surprisingly a thoughtful observation that I never would have considered since I don't have that problem. I feel kind of bad for disregarding my carribean girlfriend's results now.
- askafriend 9y agoWe're talking about $200,000,000 here. There's no space in the room for sentimental value with a round like that. It's got to be brutally practical and be able to scale.
- epmaybe 9y agooh of course. If I understand correctly, the FDA has already approved them to provide genetic testing for 10 diseases. That is the big sell they are going for. They have plenty of data from the sentimental folks like me to play with.
- kilroy123 9y agoYup, I agree. My mom was adopted so I can't trace anything on one side of my family. That's why I did the ancestry test. She met her biological parents before they died, but has little info about family history.