I love 23andme. I don't make major medical decisions based on it (yet), and I know it has limitations (it didn't predict the pancreatic cancer that killed my da

I love 23andme. I don't make major medical decisions based on it (yet), and I know it has limitations (it didn't predict the pancreatic cancer that killed my dad, and it didn't find indicators for a number of other conditions in my family tree...). But, it's a fun thing to play with, it has connected me up with a number of folks in my family tree that I didn't know about, and it resolved some questions about the ancestry of my family. I'm an American mutt from poor white trash stock...no idea where everybody came from until 23andme. My sister had tried to do a family tree but ran out of steam just a couple of generations back. Anyway, it's probably good they're being reined in from making medical claims. I don't think the tech is quite there yet. But, as a tool alongside many others, it's cool. And, I love that they're doing original research with their surveys...it's a super cool idea to combine lots of crowdsourced data and DNA results of thousands of people to find markers for diseases and traits. I plan to keep recommending 23andme to folks who can afford it and folks who can grasp that a DNA test isn't a reliable indicator of disease and that it is merely a probability indicator.