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Can someone clone you with this? In the future?
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Can someone clone you with this? In the future?
- iandanforth2 3y agoNo, that would be quite impossible.
- ourmandave 3y agoYou know, I'd forgive all their trespasses if they used it to create a personalized organ transplant service.
- trompetenaccoun 3y agoNo, that's not possible. 23andMe doesn't do full sequencing, that would be too expensive for their average customer. The main reason people take the test, which they heavily advertise, is that it tells you your supposed ancestry. It's basically a modern, more sophisticated version of race science. Instead of only comparing skin color, skull shapes, noses and such, they now look at specific sequences in specific genes and compare them among many people from around the world. The claim is this can tell you what your "ethnicity" is and where your ancestors came from. Ignoring of course that humans (and the genes they carry) don't necessarily have fixed physical locations and the interpretation, while maybe true, may also be complete bunk. But Americans love it for maybe obvious reasons.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoI had a buddy take one of the tests and they basically just circled the UK and said "you're from here". He already knew that for the most part. The only benefit I can imagine* is knowing if I have individual genetic markers for something I should tell my son about.