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I made an informed decision when I signed up. It's SNP genotyping, which realistically other than telling your ancestry and few health conditions, isn't that p
by wenc 2y ago
I made an informed decision when I signed up.
It's SNP genotyping, which realistically other than telling your ancestry and few health conditions, isn't that predictive of most health conditions. Genotyping only captures a small percentage of total genetic information (it's not a full sequence -- still too expensive for what I paid), and thus the data was actually very limited, so the risk was realistically very small.
Privacy is about risk-reward -- rather than applying the preventative principle to everything (which is overly conservative), we make trade offs in life.
- Yeul 2y agoYou cannot predict technology though.
- dkh 2y agoMeaning what?
- VerminOctopus1 2y agoYou can get pretty far through imputation. SNPs can reveal plenty about the rest of your genome even if it hasn’t been directly sequenced. Reference populations and linkage disequilibrium go a long way.