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Talk to your doctor. Genetic tests ordered via your physician may be covered by patient privacy laws in ways that 23andme customers aren’t. Read the fine print
by akiselev 3y ago
Talk to your doctor. Genetic tests ordered via your physician may be covered by patient privacy laws in ways that 23andme customers aren’t.
Read the fine print though because you get what you pay for.
- hackernewds 3y agoyou will not get the richness of detail that 23andme provides though, since the results are mostly based off training data from other submissions to 23andme. Which is why it gets better over time; I was shown to be 20% Chinese, but now 4 years later my profile there reads that I'm completely Korean
- brigandish 3y agoKnowing your geographical ancestry - which, to me, seems slightly ridiculous, versus knowing some genetic predisposition for disease or problems like the one discussed above with caffeine or, say, ibuprofen, don't seem to be comparable in the slightest.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoTheir ancestry data is known to be quite dubious. They're really just guessing for the most part.
- alfiedotwtf 3y ago> I was shown to be 20% Chinese, but now 4 years later my profile there reads that I'm completely Korean > you will not get the richness of detail that 23andme provides though That richness you describe almost seems to be fabricated "vanity metrics" rather than anything useful