23 and Me

[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.

[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

[Sip]

Re: 23 and Me

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

[Siggie]

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.

[jgk3]

Re: 23 and Me

I agree, we would know a lot more about ourselves if we had some idea about disease risks from our genetic history. But I think we could learn just as much about ourselves and what we've inherited by observing our memories of growing up with our parents, teachers, elders, friends... That is our actual experience. If we compare and try to relate it to our genetics, I think the genetics would better represent our potential qualities: health risks, physical or mental advantages/disadvantages. And then, since afterall we're playing a game of matching our experience with genetics, we can relate our impressions of our parents to this information.

Sounds like fun, but I don't have 99$ to spend on this right now :P So I'll muse for free

[Siggie]

Re: 23 and Me

I suggest you send me your money and I will tell you all that you want to know about your genes. I'll even charge 1/2 the price AND you don't have to commit $9.99 for 12 months.

Shad zerang es du... Do you accept Paypal?

[Sip]

Re: 23 and Me

I suggest you send me your money and I will tell you all that you want to know about your genes. I'll even charge 1/2 the price AND you don't have to commit $9.99 for 12 months.

[Siggie]

Re: 23 and Me

Looks kinda cool. It reminds of a project the National Geo Society has where you send them 2 samples of your cheek cells and then they determine where your ancestors came from. Their info also improves over time as more people send in their dna.

Yes, I remember that one. I believe this provides similar ancestry tracking.

[Armanen]

Re: 23 and Me

Looks kinda cool. It reminds of a project the National Geo Society has where you send them 2 samples of your cheek cells and then they determine where your ancestors came from. Their info also improves over time as more people send in their dna.

[Siggie]

Re: 23 and Me

Is it works?

What do you mean by "works"? If their genotyping works? Yes. The information provided by that though, improves over time because each person adds to the existing data.