Recruiting patients for clinical studies can actually be quite hard, especially if you are looking only for patients with a specific mutation. Many companies no

Recruiting patients for clinical studies can actually be quite hard, especially if you are looking only for patients with a specific mutation. Many companies now focus on studying genetically defined patient populations bc the signal to noise ratio is better. There is a massive shortage of patients for cancer studies now As mentioned, 23andme uses genotyping not sequencing so it's unclear whether there data is that valuable for target discovery. and while it's not unprecedented for pharma to spend $300M for a target id deal, it is quite rare