Re:Could an Eye Doctor Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before You Have ...
by loa-in-backup on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @11:23AM
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> Some Genetic Tests Apparently Can’t Tell If You’re Dog Or Human
We do share a lot of genetic code, so checking for a specific aminoacid sequence could very unsurpisingly detect it in both
Re:Could an Eye Doctor Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before You Have ...
by Not_a_pizza on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:58PM
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People have tried spoofing with dogs, but dogs aren't even that close genetically compared to other animals. Makes one wonder if they'd be able to detect a chimpanzee.
https://www.thedodo.com/animals-you-had-no-idea-were-so-clos...
The real test should be sending in your own genes twice. They might not detect exactly the same because of minor mutagenic differentiation that has taken place (or because you're a chimera!), but they should easily place you into the same family tree as yourself.
Some Genetic Tests Apparently Can’t Tell If You’re Dog Or Human https://futurism.com/home-genetics-test-dog-human
How DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage, and Probably Yours, Too https://gizmodo.com/how-dna-testing-botched-my-familys-herit...
I Took 9 Different Commercial DNA Tests and Got 6 Different Results https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-...
How Accurate Are Online DNA Tests? (Betteridge's Law of Headlines might still somewhat play into this one.) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-accurate-are-...
Consumer DNA Tests Are Wrong 40 Percent of the Time https://www.geek.com/science/study-consumer-dna-tests-are-wr...
Consumer Affairs' 23 and me rating (1.5/5 stars) https://www.consumeraffairs.com/health/23andme.html
The words "Fly By Night" definitely come to mind.
Combine that with ongoing privacy murkiness, and 23andme is basically the medical version of Facebook. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/16/5-biggest-risks-of-sharing-d...