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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by EmoSupportEmu on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:20PM (#22130796)
Because you can have a mutation that your parents don't have?
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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by patall on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:28PM (#22130899)
23&me most like will not help you there as they are only looking for relatively well known mutations and not de-novos. They are basically scanning a few (or less) million variants but there are billions of possible new ones
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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by Nuzzerino on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:11PM (#22140216)
23andme is pretty useless for getting great information from your DNA. I say this because you can get a much better report by exporting the raw data and then ordering a more detailed report from promethase.
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Re:23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline by refurb on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:59PM (#22132667)
Yes, but if you get a mutation in one of the SNPs they test for, it will show positive even though both parents are negative.
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