23 and Me

[jgk3]

Re: 23 and Me

Jeff, I wondered too whether it would really tell us more than we could observe by looking at family history.

I should recover from some medical bill paying before I pay for something like this... bills arrived around the same time as that spending itch.

Haha, sounds like a good plan.

By the way, zerang-ness and joking aside, my point was basically who verifies or validates what these guys say? They will come and tell you a bunch of data and scientific sounding things. How can you evaluate their reports? Is there any sort of certification, validation, etc on what these guys will report to you? I checked their website and I didn't see anything that would suggest anything on how much you can trust them

You're right, I'm afraid we don't have the luxury of lab rats in this situation :P

[Siggie]

Re: 23 and Me

What bothered me more than no assurance of that sort was that they don't describe very well how it is where the information they are selling. Are they simply looking at their "members" health outcomes and reporting correlations within their own sample or are they keeping up with genetic research and reporting those findings about particular genotypes as well? If it included the latter, I'd be a more tempting service to utilize.