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Given 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
by rossjudson 13y ago
Given 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".