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>You're shedding your DNA everywhere you go. It's not hard to collect a sample. Interestingly, 23andme addresses this by requiring a quite large saliva sample.
by 300bps 13y ago
>You're shedding your DNA everywhere you go. It's not hard to collect a sample.
Interestingly, 23andme addresses this by requiring a quite large saliva sample. The theory being that with such a large sample required you will not be able to gather enough spit from someone surreptitiously to get their genetic profile.
It took me about 10 minutes to generate enough spit to put into the test tube to reach it to the marked fill level. It took longer because you're not allowed to drink anything for a period of time before you collect the sample.
- dfc 13y agoYou think that some spook is going to follow you around to collect DNA and then send it to 23aM? I think the parent commenter was probably under the impression that if the government was going to surreptitiously acquire your DNA they could probably find some testing facilities of their own.
- dminor 13y agoNo, they were merely stating that you can't easily test someone else's DNA using 23aM, despite the fact that we're shedding DNA everywhere.
- 300bps 13y ago>You think that some spook is going to follow you around to collect DNA and then send it to 23aM? Of course not - that's silly. But I'm happy that 23andme has safeguards in place to stop regular people from surreptitiously collecting DNA from someone and using it to check their DNA.