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how has 23andme affected you in reality? (not hypothetically)

• dekhn 3y ago
  Even though I'm not a direct customer, it affected me: I now know I have tens or more half siblings throughout the US. It's mildly unsettling but I guess I'm happy that people were able to find my dad, who is also their dad.
• ajdude 3y ago
  I discovered that I have the apoe4/4 gene, which not only explained why keto -despite helping me lose weight- threw my cholesterol to dangerous levels, but also explain some other important things about my family and genetics (some things that weren't even in the results, but they let you download the raw data of your genome so I did some bioinformatics). It helped me with changing my lifestyle and having a clear picture of what the focus on.
• electrondood 3y ago
  Sperm donor. At some point in the future, I'm going to have an entire classroom of people figure out who I am based on suggestions of my relatives in their family tree. I deleted my data years ago, doesn't matter.