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Re:GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms ... by Retric on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:37PM (#17612121)
These are not false positives, because you ran the test wrong.

Suppose a male with red hair, green eyes, and AB+ blood actually has those traits they are just not enough to unlikely identify someone. Adding more genetic traits on it's own is not enough for example you have identical twin or even triplet separated at birth. The core issue is DNA marks are not independent though people often assume they are.

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Re:GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms ... by mcculley on Thursday July 26, 2018 @05:23AM (#17616126)
Society will have to adapt to a better understanding that this is true. Keeping one’s DNA secret is not going to be a useful defense against ignorance of how DNA works.
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Re:GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms ... by Retric on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:54AM (#17617502)
Worked for the last 10,000+ years and still works today.

Sure, at some point in the future it might get fixed or always fail, but until then you need to deal with today not some mythical perfect future.

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Re:GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms ... by mcculley on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:32PM (#17618723)
The last 10,000+ years has not been static from my perspective. Blood testing came along. Limited DNA testing came along after that. Perfect DNA testing will be here soon. The technology won't care how you feel about it being used. I'm not imagining a mythical perfect future. I'm imagining a very real future that we can't avoid and need to deal with more pragmatically.
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