Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo...
by Yeul on Saturday March 22, 2025 @04:29PM
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You cannot predict technology though.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo...
by dkh on Saturday March 22, 2025 @05:06PM
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Meaning what?
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo...
by SalmoShalazar on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:09PM
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You can get pretty far through imputation. SNPs can reveal plenty about the rest of your genome even if it hasn’t been directly sequenced. Reference populations and linkage disequilibrium go a long way.
It's SNP genotyping, which realistically other than telling your ancestry and few health conditions, isn't that predictive of most health conditions. Genotyping only captures a small percentage of total genetic information (it's not a full sequence -- still too expensive for what I paid), and thus the data was actually very limited, so the risk was realistically very small.
Privacy is about risk-reward -- rather than applying the preventative principle to everything (which is overly conservative), we make trade offs in life.