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Response from 23andme: http://spittoon.23andme.com/2010/07/23/gao-studies-science-non-scientifically/#more-6936 http://spittoon.23andme.com/2010/07/23/gao-stud

• moultano 16y ago
  Wow. That was remarkably polite given how unprofessional the original report was.
  • Elite 16y ago
    They don't have much of a choice but to defer. Political officials are notoriously vindictive. If 23andMe released a scathing response, it would be taken personally by some power hungry politico would make it his personal agenda to destroy the company. The only industry I can think of that basically told government "Go fuck yourselves" was wall street. Even Big Oil panders.
• dhimes 16y ago
  For those of you who are skimming this thread, read the response and skip the article. The GAO's report is premature on anything substantial, except (possibly) these companies should emphasize that some of their secondary "conclusions" are quite tentative. The response points out that there are good conclusions from these companies with which the GAO does not find exception. Key quote from response about function the GAO didn't disparage: [We] provide information about carrier status for single gene diseases such as cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs disease, as well as the fact that we provide information about a customer’s likely response to certain prescription medications that have been shown in clinical trials to have differing effects and side effects depending on a person’s genetic make-up