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Well, this makes the fact that I asked for this for Christmas awkward AND useless...

by imjoshdean 13y ago

jedberg 13y ago
I found the ancestry information for more interesting than the medical part. So all may not yet be lost.
- bananacurve 13y ago
  Unfortunately the differences genetically between different groups, aka ancestry, is less than the differences between individuals in the same group, so the medical part is what is interesting.
  - sukuriant 13y ago
    to you
gwern 13y ago
My sentiment exactly. 2 days ago I put it on my wishlist, reasoning that even if they weren't marketing, the results would still be interesting. What if I get a kit now? Do I manually look up everything in SNPedia or something?
- sitkack 13y ago
  I have an unused kit from the 99$ sale years ago... Crap. Will they still provide all of the data? One could create a 3rd party service to give the same analysis?
  - chewmieser 13y ago
    From their FAQ: I purchased a kit as a gift before November 22nd, but have not given it to the recipient. Will they still receive health results when they send it in? Yes. Access to health-related results is based on the purchase date of the kit. Any kit purchased before November 22, 2013 and returned to our lab will receive health-related results. That being said, aren't the kits only good for a year?
- cema 13y ago
  No need to do it manually: use promethease, for instance. Still, it's quite inconvenient.
mbreedlove 13y ago
I heard about a service called Promethease[1] that will apparently give you some in-depth reporting as well as risk levels for disease. It may be of interest to you. [1] https://promethease.com/ondemand https://promethease.com/ondemand
jonlucc 13y ago
I think it's interesting that they are still selling the kits at the $99 price point. They also haven't removed the health tab from their site. I'm guessing what they are doing is buying themselves time to prepare and discuss with the FDA. They might continue to run all the same SNPs on their already-designed chips and just try to justify to the FDA that those SNPs are medically relevant in the ways 23andMe says they are.

Well, this makes the fact that I asked for this for Christmas awkward AND useless...

jedberg 13y ago

I found the ancestry information for more interesting than the medical part. So all may not yet be lost.

bananacurve 13y ago
Unfortunately the differences genetically between different groups, aka ancestry, is less than the differences between individuals in the same group, so the medical part is what is interesting.
- sukuriant 13y ago
  to you

gwern 13y ago

My sentiment exactly. 2 days ago I put it on my wishlist, reasoning that even if they weren't marketing, the results would still be interesting. What if I get a kit now? Do I manually look up everything in SNPedia or something?

sitkack 13y ago
I have an unused kit from the 99$ sale years ago... Crap. Will they still provide all of the data? One could create a 3rd party service to give the same analysis?
- chewmieser 13y ago
  From their FAQ: I purchased a kit as a gift before November 22nd, but have not given it to the recipient. Will they still receive health results when they send it in? Yes. Access to health-related results is based on the purchase date of the kit. Any kit purchased before November 22, 2013 and returned to our lab will receive health-related results. That being said, aren't the kits only good for a year?
cema 13y ago
No need to do it manually: use promethease, for instance. Still, it's quite inconvenient.

mbreedlove 13y ago

I heard about a service called Promethease[1] that will apparently give you some in-depth reporting as well as risk levels for disease. It may be of interest to you. [1] https://promethease.com/ondemand https://promethease.com/ondemand

jonlucc 13y ago

I think it's interesting that they are still selling the kits at the $99 price point. They also haven't removed the health tab from their site. I'm guessing what they are doing is buying themselves time to prepare and discuss with the FDA. They might continue to run all the same SNPs on their already-designed chips and just try to justify to the FDA that those SNPs are medically relevant in the ways 23andMe says they are.