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Counterargument: Consented mass datasets of DNA annotated with useful data (e.g. health records) are valuable. Your DNA by itself is pretty much worthless. Th
by cjbprime 8y ago
Counterargument: Consented mass datasets of DNA annotated with useful data (e.g. health records) are valuable. Your DNA by itself is pretty much worthless. There's a reason you pay 23andme to sequence it rather than them paying you.
- bobbylarrybobby 8y agoWhy would they pay you? Plenty of people not give them their DNA, but pay them for the privilege
- ct520 8y agoWhy would a company pay people for their DNA, hmmm. http://www.wave3.com/2019/04/01/residents-concerned-about-dna-for-cash-transactions-louisville/ http://www.wave3.com/2019/04/01/residents-concerned-about-dn...
- astazangasta 8y agoYour DNA by itself IS informative to you; there are plenty of public SNP databases you can use for making useful comparisons. The basic "what ethnicity are you?" result that is the bread-and-butter of these companies can be ascertained by comparison with the 1000 Genomes database, which has detailed information on haplogroups. You can probably also get raw SNP calls from a genotyping service. Human SNP genotyping costs about $300 a sample at-cost and can maybe be had for less. Few of these resources are commercialized for the general public, but they are certainly accessible if you just want the raw data. In other words, the add-on from 23andMe is mostly convenience - they spare you the effort of having to locate these services and engage with them, and they spare you the effort of having to do your own informatic analysis.
- cjbprime 8y agoI didn't say it wasn't useful to you. I said it wasn't valuable to others by itself. (At least to anywhere near the extent that people seem to imagine.)