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Re:GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms ... by mrfusion on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @08:08PM (#17614074)
Is the data really that useful? It’s just a bunch of snps. And you don’t know about what diseases the customers have (besides genetic diseases)
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Re:GlaxoSmithKline makes $300M investment in 23andMe, forms ... by klmr on Thursday July 26, 2018 @08:37AM (#17616922)
23andme does collect such data (on a voluntary basis). So lots of their data is annotated with phenotypes. The data is tremendously useful.
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