Posted on 05/23/2024 1:29:44 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
When a trusting customer purchases a kit from 23andMe, spits in their tube, and mails it back, they effortlessly provide 23andMe with genetic data on dozens and dozens of their traits. If the intended goal is to discover a family ancestry line, or if they are a candidate for ailments like breast or prostate cancer and other disease-causing variants, then 23andMe may seem like a valuable tool. However, by consenting to let 23andMe run tests, customers agree to user terms set by the company.
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As the partnership between 23andMe and GSK came to life, besides publicly disclosed deals with Genentech and Pfizer, 23andMe was also partnered with Janssen, Lundbeck, Biogen, and Alynlam Pharmaceuticals to share genetic studies run on anonymous customer data. These alliances continued unchanged once the GSK partnership began, but 23andMe agreed not to enter into any new partnerships focused on drug target discovery for the next five years.
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I’d always wondered how much ‘genetic testing’ they were really doing? I was always skeptical as I always am anyway of everything I hear on TV... Those commercials where one customer says “I found out I was related to ‘Ben Franklin’” or some such nonsense, was when I realized they were bogus as all hell.
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you are correct about weird results iv come to a conclusion that its a ever changing algo.
a family member took the
ancestry.com &its posted to see but I worry sbout MY privacy as being related to this family member.
i saw thru this grom the very beginning. You may hidr the results but they are perma ently tecorded & stored in bum eff egypt
its enough knowing that everything you do on the ‘ net is saved and also your telephone calls and voiceprint
one thing i have never done
is post my picture. Im happy with that but it doesnt help much when i visit a personals site.
Tend to agree with you wholeheartedly.
It has proven to be an invaluable tool to cracking even decades-old "Cold Cases"...where it used to be that only convicted felons were compiled in a database as a tool to bringing the guilty to justice.
Ha, (yikes) that potential is there.
Nothing would surprise me anymore.
(Something like this was tried in the 1930s somewhere or other.)
I did Nazi that coming.
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