Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills

Re:Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to m... by webmobdev on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:05PM (#26121302)

From another reply -

  We also will NOT be selling or using any of your personal genetic data without consent.

"Genetic data" seems to imply that they do look up your DNA too.

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Re:Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to m... by aritmo on Saturday February 13, 2021 @05:48AM (#26122808)

Genetic data is €€€.

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Re:Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to m... by david_l_lin on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:34PM (#26121419)

See Esyir's response. In short, we do NOT look up your DNA, and only look into microbial DNA. In fact, we do a host depletion step to enrich for microbial DNA prior to sequencing, then a following host depletion step prior to microbial mapping. Sequencing will inevitably pick up some signal from the host genome, but at such low levels, we cannot derive meaningful signal from the host DNA.

TLDR, we do NOT use host genetic data, but cannot guarantee that none of that data will be stored somewhere in this analysis

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