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Where does one go and how much does it cost to get your genes sequenced these days?
by DavidSJ 16y ago
Where does one go and how much does it cost to get your genes sequenced these days?
- zemaj 16y ago$400-$500 US at https://www.23andme.com/ https://www.23andme.com/ They had a special deal for $99 when I got it, but that was very limited and they haven't done it since. Still I'd say if you hold out for a year that price will be halved. I generally recommend people to wait unless they're really interested in these things. The industry is still in its infancy. Cost is going down quickly and quality is going up just as fast.
- DavidSJ 16y agoAh, interesting. It's not a full genome sequence, just a sequence of strategically important loci, I see.
- hotpockets 16y agoYes, you get about 570,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).
- c1sc0 16y agoAnd as far as I know, the value of SNPs is debatable at best.
- abstractbill 16y ago23andme is one such service. I have GG at rs4680.
- hotpockets 16y agoI used 23andme. I was lucky enough to be notified they were having a one-day sale a couple months ago. The sale price was $99 for the full reults, which is 80% off of their usual price of $499. The sale was on national DNA day. There's at least a couple other similar companies out there, with more well known ones being deCODE and Navigenics. Recently these companies were getting in trouble with california health regulators for providing medical information without a doctor (I think that was the complaint, but I don't remember the exact reason). But the California complaint included 12 companies so there must be other companies as well.
- gnaritas 16y agoTry https://www.23andme.com/ https://www.23andme.com/