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Obviously 23andMe results are not a diagnosis from your physician. You should use 23andMe in conjunction with a real physician. For example, I used 23andMe back
by Sephr 13y ago
Obviously 23andMe results are not a diagnosis from your physician. You should use 23andMe in conjunction with a real physician. For example, I used 23andMe back in 2010 and it told me I had a high risk for a certain genetic condition which I recalled one of my family members having, so I went to see my physician for a real diagnosis, armed with this newly found information.
23andMe helped me catch this early enough with the assistance of my physician that I was able to get treatment long before I would have developed symptoms. If I never used 23andMe I probably would not have had this diagnosed until years later.
- rossjudson 13y agoGiven https://www.23andme.com/health/all/ https://www.23andme.com/health/all/, I don't think you're considering the negative case properly. If 23andMe's results say you don't have something on their list of 250+ things they're checking for, you might decide against certain treatments or tests based on that. I think it's reasonable for the FDA to tell 23andMe that if they're going to interpret the results for their customers, they need to be able to guarantee the chain of processing is there, and they need to be able to justify each "detection point" their marketing claims. Your outcome is positive. But positive is not the only possibility.
- Sephr 13y agoYou are equating false negatives to harmful information, when in reality it is the same as simply not taking the 23andMe test. The only thing 23andme enables you to do is act sooner on things they get right, and any false negatives are irrelevant—you didn't ask for a diagnosis and they aren't claiming to give you a diagnosis. You cannot be harmed by a false negative any more than you will be harmed by not buying a 23andMe kit. > you might decide against certain treatments or tests based on that Since you are mentioning treatments means, you must misunderstand what the purpose of the test is for. If you have current medical problems that you need treatment for, you wouldn't use 23andMe's statistics in order to chose a treatment, you ask your physician to help you get the treatment you need. If 23andMe had a false negative on my condition instead of the true positive, I would still get diagnosed once I started developing symptoms eventually. Nobody who starts having health problems thinks "I should first consult my 23andMe results for things that I should specifically mention to my physician that I don't have".