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"*Requires a recurring Personal Genome Service subscription at $5/month. 1 year contract required. Order for $499 with no subscription commitment." So it's rea
by sorbus 16y ago
"*Requires a recurring Personal Genome Service subscription at $5/month.
1 year contract required. Order for $499 with no subscription commitment."
So it's really $159, with another $60 paid every subsequent year as long as you want access to the data (and any new things which they might provide). If you're expecting to subscribe for longer than the next 80 months (six years and eight months), then it might be better to get the normal $499 version. Although, on the page about what the PGS subscription gives you, it mentions discounts on future things, like moving from genotyping to full sequencing, so perhaps it would be worth it. Not quite enough information to say, really.
That said, I'm all for lowering the barriers to people knowing about their DNA, and $5 a month is pretty small compared to many other things (phone contracts, for instance, or getting coffee every morning).
- MikeCapone 16y agoAt the speed at which prices are falling in that industry, that subscription will probably get cheaper or go away with time, so it might be a better deal than it looks if you only extrapolate costs linearly.
- Estragon 16y agoThe data quality will improve drastically, too. This is really not a comprehensive genotyping at all.
- zmmmmm 16y ago> with another $60 paid every subsequent year as long as you want access to the data Can you clarify? Are they going to let me get the raw data, or are they holding it hostage and just telling me higher level results from it?
- chaostheory 16y agoBeing a current member, I believe you do have access to the raw data though I haven't downloaded mine yet.
- Aron 16y agoYou do. I have done it. There are programs that can parse this information and correlate it to other information sources such as snpedia.