Article: As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information

As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information

 

Important to know that a lot of people are advising anyone with 23andme data to log in and get it deleted, for fear of where it might end up. The BBC reported that some users were having problems (possibly due to high traffic on the site), so I went onto the site at 7am when I thought it would be quieter and got through the process with no problem. (Just do a websearch on 'how to delete 23andme data' to find out how to do it.)

 

IIRC, the same happened to Ancestry.com. Some hedge fund bought the company and who knows what they did with the data.

I had a full genome done through Nebula, gift from my ex who tried to help me for a while but gave up so no use for it anymore, and I had it deleted in full as well. It'll be cheaper as time goes on anyway, so if there's a real need for it it's not an issue. Nothing is lost.

 

The tech they are going to use for SequenceME starts at ~$800 for whole genome sequencing and takes 72 hrs.

Which is mindblowing when you consider that The Human Genome project took 13 years (1990-2003) for 92 % and cost $2.7 billions.

 

Where did you see 72 hours?

 

My post here:
https://www.s4me.info/threads/seque...gh-and-action-for-me.41663/page-4#post-596060
(Edited to add direct link)

 

Thanks!

 

Long click on the bit that says the time and date the post was posted. It should come up with a link you can copy. Took me a while to figure out.

 

Thank you!! I should have been able to guess that, Facebook works the same way.