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perhaps it's de rigeur to mention this in a thread about genetic tests, but if you've had it done already by one of the major providers, the service mentioned i
by nyolfen 8y ago
perhaps it's de rigeur to mention this in a thread about genetic tests, but if you've had it done already by one of the major providers, the service mentioned in this piece (promethease) is really fantastic.
if you're lucky it won't tell you much you don't know, but learning about all the possible things to look out for (heightened risk of diabetes and adverse reactions to a medication, for me), sorted by magnitude, is exactly the kind of thing you'd hope to learn from personal genotyping. it's much more granular than what is offered by eg 23andme's health service, and is updated with new research. it's more than worth the $5.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoDo you know if Promethease has a similarly awful privacy policy?
- nyolfen 8y agoit has a pretty good one: https://promethease.com/privacy https://promethease.com/privacy > After 45 days Promethease deletes your Promethease report. > At no time is your DNA data shared - or sold - to any external party, period. We also do not sell any products like vitamins or supplements. [...] > We do not claim any ownership rights in your genome and it belongs to you only.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoFantastic. For this reason alone, I would endorse them over 23andme “We own your data forever and can do whatever we want with it”.
- jstanley 8y agoHow can we be certain that they aren't keeping a copy of our genome and/or sending it to other people?
- Avamander 8y agoSpeaking of this issue, is there no FLOSS effort to create software that could provide this analyzing service?
- another-cuppa 8y agoAlmost all the software used in biology is FLOSS. The problem is you need a lab process to get the data in the first place.
- Avamander 8y agoSay I have my genome in a text file, is there actually software that could give me disease predisposition data?