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that. there are no real parallels here.

"Customers who purchased kits before November 22, 2013 will continue to have access to all the reports they’ve always had."

Everyone who has ordered since November 22nd is offered a refund. The details are on the website and will come in the email. Have some faith, dude. Of course they have to do that.

a) they never marketed themselves as predictors of cancer or told anyone they have major disease b) the criteria for scientific evidence are here https://23andme.https.internapcdn.…

Yes, in PDF form: https://www.23andme.com/user/report/health/

Yeah, you should be OK.

If you think that's dumb, here are a couple of petitions you can sign: http://www.change.org/petitions/fda-administrator-margaret-h... https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ove…

Yes, for the mendelian ones that can be inferred in a relatively straightforward way from the raw data. Not really, for the more complicated risk assessments.

You can run the raw data through a 3rd party tool like Promethease ( http://snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease ) while you wait for the FDA kerfuffle to work itself out. YMMV though…

It's a chicken and egg problem. The more people like you purchase the service, the less European it will become. It has made huge strides in the last couple of years, but there is …

It's a mistake to infer that this means "regular" 23andMe results are similarly affected. The exome project was clearly labeled as a research one and the data was returned with no …

Indeed. Singe Payer + Universal Coverage = FTW.

You can. Insurance spreads risk across population pools. You have to carve out those pools somehow, so you use broad variables like age and gender. The problem is genetic informati…

Knowing a little bit about the culture of the company, I hope that they will be transparent about any laws they have to comply with, a la Google Transparency report: http://www.goo…

They ran an exome sequencing pilot recently, so sequencing is certainly coming.

They ran an exome sequencing pilot recently, so sequencing is certainly coming.

Broadly speaking, because there are laws on the books that prohibit using genetic information for health insurance discrimination.

Also, California has put a more stringent law on the books in 2011: http://www.privacylives.com/california-passes-bill-to-prohib...

And customs duties. They are not trying to gouge you, AFAIK.

It's OK. Nobody gets your genome. It would be suicidal for them to share, plus there are laws on the books (GINA at the federal level, a stronger law recently passed in CA). Also, …

That would be some glitch :) But no, it's the latter.

Next time you think you discovered a gigantic easily exploitable security hole in a mature service that has been around for 10+ years, please think again and research it a lot more…

You can "buy it as a gift" and pre-pay the 1-year subscription.

That's certainly true right now, but the information in the health reports gets updated all the time based on new studies, so it will continue to get better.

It is something I know for a fact since I worked at 23andMe for 4+ years. Looks like the first responder already found the relevant section and posted it. It's not an ironclad assu…