23andMe Is Monetizing Your DNA the Way Facebook Monetizes 'Likes'

Re:23andMe Is Monetizing Your DNA the Way Facebook Monetizes... by dogma1138 on Sunday July 10, 2016 @06:09PM (#12067492)

Actually from everyone I talked too, 23andMe is pretty useless since they do very shallow sequencing, the amount of actual correlation is fairly low, and false positives and false negatives is actually quite high.

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Re:23andMe Is Monetizing Your DNA the Way Facebook Monetizes... by jghn on Sunday July 10, 2016 @07:23PM (#12067769)

They don't do sequencing at all. What they're doing is using DNA SNP chips which will identify your genotype in the several million positions that tend to vary from person to person.

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Re:23andMe Is Monetizing Your DNA the Way Facebook Monetizes... by biomcgary on Sunday July 10, 2016 @09:39PM (#12068329)

Although the variant data is sparse, the utility of the data depends on the study design and what is being studied. In the one case that I am familiar with, the data turns out to be very powerful, but there are some things about the study that may be unique.

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