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Re:23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia by dekhn on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:39PM (#15186515)
GINA law already prevents insurance companies from acting on this data.

It seems unlikely that this sort of genetic data is really a risk. To test that, I had my genome sequenced and published it with a reasonable license. Anybody is free to download my data.

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Re:23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia by blopker on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:24PM (#15187623)
I've put my raw data on GitHub in case anyone wants to see what it looks like or make a PR. This is the V3 chip (V5 is the current), but the formats should be the same.

https://github.com/blopker/DNA

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Re:23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia by dekhn on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @07:03PM (#15187845)
so, uh, if I send you a pull request, do you CRISPR it into your genome?
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Re:23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia by blopker on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @07:29PM (#15187969)
I'm just waiting on Travis CI integration.
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Re:23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia by snerbles on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:00PM (#15187098)
How would you know if that data was used in a decision?
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Re:23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia by dekhn on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:07PM (#15187526)
Great question. Ultimately, I can't know for certain, but I can make some reasonable guesses.
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Re:23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia by chicken_little on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:21PM (#15187230)
I think GINA only prevents health insurance. Life insurance would probably be interested in genetic indicators of early mortality.
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